Saying it anticipates criminal charges against one or more defendants this year, the federal government is asking for a temporary halt to the civil securities-fraud cases against Kevin Lawrence and associates.
In a motion filed in Seattle federal court, the United States Attorneys’ office said that continuing the civil lawsuit filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission could interfere with criminal proceedings, convictions from which could put parties behind bars for 15 years.
Next year’s budget may be a lesson in subtraction for Bainbridge public schools.
The district will lose an estimated $642,761 after cuts in the state education budget passed by the Legislature Thursday night, as part of the 2001-03 supplemental operating budget slated to be signed into law by Gov. Locke at the end of March.
Did an organizational meeting for a pro-park levy campaign, held on park district grounds, violate state campaign laws?
That was the charge leveled by islander Tom Hujar, representing a group called Bainbridge Parents for Better Parks, at a public hearing on the upcoming levy Thursday evening. Calling that earlier meeting – held March 11 at the Strawberry Hill Center, and attended by two park board members, district Director Dave Lewis and several private citizens – “a clear violation of public disclosure law,” Hujar called for sanctions against district staff and an audit of park operations.
Accusations of mismanagement and misconduct topped those of poor ball field maintenance, at a public hearing on park district financing Thursday evening.
Tom Hujar, representing a group called Bainbridge Parents for Better Parks, criticized district operations and told park board members there are “many questions left unanswered” after February’s narrow levy failure.
With trial set to begin next week, the Bainbridge Island School District reached a last-minute settlement Thursday with the final defendant in a lawsuit over shoddy construction at Woodward Middle School.
The settlement, by which the district will receive about $3.5 million, will be enough to repair the water-damaged building and pay for the costs of litigation, school board member Bruce Weiland said Friday.
Evelyn Bottega smooths back white hair already held neatly in place by a pink headband and pokes at the square where her palm-sized checker piece was just seconds earlier.
“He cheated,” the spry octogenarian says, “I mean it. He cheated.”
If buildings burst out in scales, they might resemble Gail Hustedde’s ceramics.
Hustedde combines architecture and patterns in nature to make the clay works she shows at Bainbridge Arts and Crafts through March.
“I used to make big garden pots,” Hustedde said. “But the new work is much more interesting and I’m really enjoying the intimacy of the smaller scale of these works.”
After 15 months of negotiations, the Bainbridge Island Fire District has reached tentative agreement on a contract with its uniformed firefighters.
When Kevin Lawrence Millar graduated from Bainbridge High School in 1984, the student yearbook named him “biggest spender.”
The yearbook was right.
According to a papers filed in Seattle federal court, the man who shortened his name to Kevin Lawrence and the companies he founded spent almost all of the $91 million raised from investors.
All told, court-appointed receiver Michael A. Grassmueck of Portland, Oregon, can only locate $52,000 in cash in bank accounts controlled by Lawrence-related companies, including Health Maintenance Corporation and Znetix of Bainbridge Island, and two partnerships known as Cascade Pointe, one based in Arizona and the other in the Caribbean island of Nevis.
T.J. Faddis knows the difference between a jig and a reel because she plays both.
The sprightly Faddis, who plays pennywhistle with Celtic Magic, the band performing March 16 on the eve of St. Patrick’s Day, said, “A jig tune has a rhythm that says ‘jiggety, jiggety jiggety jig. That’s 6/8, like a fast waltz. But a reel is in 2/4 time.”
Developer Kelly Samson wanted to put a very small project on a very small lot he owns on Wyatt Way, next to the Kass funeral home.
He wanted underground parking, ground-floor offices and a few residential units. But if he built to the allowable density, he couldn’t provide the necessary parking spaces.
In principle, we find the continuing battles over Ericksen Avenue deplorable. After no fewer than 11 public forums last year, the City Council approved a design that attempted to balance the neighbors’ desires to preserve the old-timey feel of the street against the needs of walkers and cyclists, who find the street’s narrow, shoulder-less contours nearly unusable.
You walk into the doctor’s office, and the receptionist greets you by name, and offers you coffee or hot chocolate.
The magazines are current, but you don’t have time to begin reading them, because the doctor is waiting for you.