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BI Parks Foundation courtesy photos Workers construct the project, which overlooks Puget Sound and the Seattle skyline.

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Pritchard Park gets rock-and-timber bench shelter

Bainbridge Island has a new park feature inspired by an old era—a rock-and-timber bench shelter at Pritchard Park.

BIMA courtesy photos Jenny Davis

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Jazz festival concerts, films, talks on BI for 5 weeks

The seventh annual Within/Earshot Jazz Festival will take place on Bainbridge Island with five weekly concerts Oct. 8…

COBI courtesy photo City workers put up a 7- by 6-foot dragonfly sculpture in front of Bainbridge Island City Hall recently. It is part of the annual Something New art rotation. The ‘Prehistoric Dragonfly’ by Leon White is made from aluminum, glass and paint. White used vintage glass headlights that glow at night because he wanted its eyes to bulge out.

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Eye spy a dragonfly

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Keith Brofsk courtesy photo A shot from above of quilts hanging from a previous show.

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Outdoor quilt show on BI Sept. 9

The annual Bainbridge Island Modern Quilt Guild’s fall festival is back for its 11th year.

Mount Rainier looms large on the horizon.

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A walk down Larsons Lane

An evening walk along Larsons Lane NE in the Lynwood neighborhood offers many views grand and small. Earlier…

Steve Fossen on bass, upper left, and clockwise vocalist Somar Macek, drummer Michael DeRosier, guitarist Chad Quist and vocalist-keyboardist-guitarist Lizzy Daymont. Heart to Heart courtesy photo

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2 original Heart members set beat for new band

Steve Fossen, founder of the legendary rock group Heart, was supposed to be cleaning up the butcher shop…

The book cover. Steven Kautner courtesy images

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Book: How Germans were treated after World War 2

I am the author of “Anna’s Story: A True Story of a Young Girl’s Will to Survive in…

Island Theatre courtesy photo Cast from a play in a previous 10-minute Festival.

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All kinds of 10-minute plays on BI in TABOO!

TABOO!, ten 10-minute plays that are funny, serious, quirky and thought-provoking, will take place Aug. 17-19 at Bainbridge…

Music at the BIMA Block Party included a number of stages and performers. Damon Williams/Kitsap News Group Photos

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BIMA party a chip off the old block

Any organization that’s been around for 10 years probably has some traditions and standard operating procedures.

Damon Williams/Kitsap News Group Photos Some very colorful jewelry was on display at one of the booths at the 10th-anniversary event of the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art.

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BIMA’s 10th

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This courtesy photo taken by Rob Swan of the Bay Hay and Feed store in Rolling Bay looks like a Norman Rockwell image or something that could have come out of the 1950s as friends sit on a curb next to the Bainbridge Island store.

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Looks like 1950s

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Third Stage, a Boston tribute band, performs outdoors and the cost was free at the Clearwater Casino's classic concert venue Aug. 3. Boats can be seen plying the waters in the background. Fans packed the site and enjoyed food and drinks, along with the music from just another band out of Boston. Steve Powell/Kitsap News Group Photos

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Clearwater’s classic concert conditions

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Studio Tour courtesy images Examples of art being shown at the event.

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‘Wild’ artist a new one at BI Studio Tour

Ingrid Amirault is one of the new artists for the 23rd annual Summer Studio Tour on Bainbridge Island,…