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Students enjoy arts and crafts at the annual Maker Faire.

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Correction: 2 BI levies cost $19 more a month

Residents in the Bainbridge Island School District are voting Feb. 13 whether to raise property taxes by an…

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BI council to learn about relationships at retreat

The Bainbridge Island City Council will have a retreat at the BI Museum of Art Feb. 3 from…

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Former Kitsap 911 executive director Richard Kirton

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Criminal sexual allegations lead to resignation at Kitsap 911

Kitsap 911 announced in a Jan. 30 news release the resignation of longtime executive director Richard Kirton in…

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Jen Dunlap, right, shares a loving kiss with Elliot the emu.

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4 agencies have ‘emusing’ story about bird on highway

We’re at liberty to tell you loose emu captured

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Greg Nance

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Rep. Nance works to fix state ferry system

Ferry service in Kitsap County needs help, and state Rep. Greg Nance of Bainbridge Island has some ideas…

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BI praised for being Tsunami Ready

The chance of a horrific earthquake and following tsunami in Puget Sound is worse than previously thought.

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BCF awards grants to 22 nonprofits

Twenty-two local nonprofits have received grants from the Bainbridge Community Foundation.

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Ordway Elementary parent and self-described “data geek” JJ Blackwood holds up a bar chart demonstrating the breakdown of school closure scenario preference by school attendance at the Bainbridge Island School Board meeting Jan. 25.

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7 groups, 110 members have 10 ideas for BI school closures

The heat is on as the Bainbridge Island School district works toward a solution for a $4.5 million…

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Should Winslow growth go up or out?

Up or out? That is the question. The answer likely will be both.

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Mary Woodward shows headlines from her parents’ papers during a talk on journalism a few years ago.

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Mary Woodward on growing up in a newspaper family

While Walt and Milly Woodward were busy running the Bainbridge Island Review, their oldest daughter, Mary, took note…

The BI Japanese American community thanks Milly and Walt Woodward at a dinner in 1963.

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Review’s epic moment: Supporting Japanese Americans in WWII

Everyone on Bainbridge Island seems to know about how the Review was the only newspaper in the nation…

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David Black in 1990.

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Sound Publishing’s history with BIR

Sound Publishing, the owners of the Bainbridge Island Review, purchased it as the Whidbey Press in 1988 from…