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News Roundup — Local anti-war vigil to be held/Toes tapping to folk music/Dillon featured at Seabold/Cancer event in the works/Islander to face Woods

Bainbridge Island Women in Black will join Women Say No to War in a special vigil to bring…

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Where to put all those future islanders?

A new citizen group looks at zoning and infrastructure for the ‘2025’ growth study. Imagine 6,900 more people…

Brittany Gray (shown)

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All-Kitsap kudos for Gray, Picha and Salo

The trio led the Spartan girls to their best-ever Metro mark. The Bainbridge girls basketball team exploded out…

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Yet another lesson in poor sportsmanship

If we’ve learned one thing in our years stewarding the sports pages of a community newspaper, it’s this:…

Jon Rose walks his daughter Emily

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Some thrive, some just get by — Rose

Jon Rose loves small towns so much, he runs one – it’s called Port Gamble. Jon Rose knows…

Jean Pearson beachcombs at Yeomalt beach. Objects she finds are scanned in and incorporated into her art.

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Some thrive, some just get by — Pearson

For Jean Pearson, it’s a challenge to stay put on an island steadily going upscale. Years spent sliding…

Spartan Coby Gibler eyes the hoop.

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Gray, Gibler are All-Kitsap selections

The juniors paced the Spartan boys to a solid record in the tough Metro League. The Bainbridge boys…

Greta Matassa in concert.

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Jazz chanteuse Matassa returns to island

She hasn’t been back since leaving BHS to start her singing career. Since trading schoolbooks for a microphone,…

Sakai Intermediate School science teacher Doug Olson (left) and Bainbridge Island School District technical support specialist Price Court finishes mounting the new weather station atop Woodward Middle School Thursday.

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Rain or shine, Sakai weather station sees it

A new system went up this week, with island weather now available online. On an early morning on…

Obituaries

H. Marguerite Hoyum

H. Marguerite Hoyum, 85, died March 3 at Messenger House Care Center on Bainbridge Island. She was born…

An 80-home planned development on a hillside east of Lynwood Center Road and south of Baker Hill Road. For reference

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80-home Lynwood plan taking shape

The project would put new commercial space fronting the road. While restoration of Lynwood Center’s signature mansion is…

Scenes from a mission of service: Clara Tan and Zac Davis hand out fruit to the community of San Pedrito

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Establishing trust, lifting people from poverty

Cross Sound establishes ties with a Mexican community. Fourteen families were barely surviving on 2,000 acres no one…

Restoration of the historic Olson mansion overlooking Lynwood Center is under way. Builder Bill Nelson (below

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More than a fresh coat of paint

The historic Olson mansion at Lynwood gets an extreme makeover. As kids, Bill Nelson and his pals used…