The Bainbridge school district is taking pencil and paper to matters of hammer and nail.
At issue: When in the 2002-03 time-frame should the board ask voters for money to finance capital-facilities construction and maintenance, and how much money should it seek.
As the clock ticks down towards the March 14 wind-up of this year’s legislative session, the House and Senate are staring each other down on the transportation package.
Technology is balanced by the human touch at Puget Sound Environmental Learning Center.
Hand-made furniture and architectural detailing by craftspersons like woodworker David Kotz bring a warmth and intimacy to the buildings that are often tall and angled to accommodate the exterior solar panels.
Graffiti made an unwelcome appearance downtown Wednesday when Winslow Hardware and Mercantile was defaced.
The front and side of the hardware store – an island institution for fifty years – was hit late Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning with spray paint on the west and south sides of the building. Several planter boxes had been pushed from the overhanging facade on the building’s front.
Like the $74 million that Bainbridge Island-based HMC and Znetix raised from investors, the additional $17 million later raised by related entities called Cascade Pointe has also disappeared, according to a preliminary inventory filed in Seattle federal court by the court-appointed receiver.
All told, receiver Michael Grassmueck can only locate $67,00 cash in the various entities founded and controlled by Kevin L. Lawrence of Bainbridge Island. Lawrence and the various entities have been named as defendants in a civil suit filed by the federal Securities and Exchange Commission in what state regulators have called “the biggest home-grown securities fraud in Washington history.”
The book Bainbridge music historian Robert Santelli reads March 10, “American Roots Music,” is a map of the tributaries – the blues, bluegrass, folk, country and more – that conjoin to form this country’s popular music.
It’s a map Santelli helped chart.
The centerpiece of Felomina “Fely” Salanga’s Island Center living room is an arrangement of figures as bright and cheerful as the smiling Salanga herself.
Two carved water buffalo prance before a low table covered with flowers that surround the tiny, painted figures of the Virgin and Christ child like a forest. The flowers make a multi-colored carpet for the large statue wearing red satin and a straw hat – Santo Nino, the childrens’ saint.
Bainbridge Island’s bicycle advocates want their wheels to be rolling, not spinning.
Having twice developed island-wide plans for bicycle mobility that have gathered dust on the shelf, they want the new non-motorized transportation plan not only to be approved, but to be incorporated into the city’s Comprehensive Plan.
Island homes have suffered a rash of residential burglaries in recent weeks, Bainbridge police say.
“Earlier this year there was a lot of talk about someone getting into homes, and driving a white Cadillac,” said Bainbridge police Officer Steve Cain. “The same thing is happening again.”
As reported elsewhere in this issue, the City Council is about to tackle the non-motorized transportation plan, and will consider, among other things, whether to incorporate that document into the Comprehensive Plan.
If Seattle had a family photo album, Mary Randlett’s artwork could fill those pages.
In nearly seven decades of picture-taking, Randlett has captured the natural beauty of Puget Sound and chronicled Seattle’s architecture and artists.
Saying that the proposed “Re-Doogals” mixed-use project will be better for the environment than the existing parking lot, hearing examiner Robin Baker upheld the city’s go-ahead for that development.
Saying that the community values a relatively pristine Blakely Harbor, the Planning Commission Thursday unanimously recommended against two applications to build the first new docks in some 25 years.
One of the applications – from Kim and Sue Bottles of Seaborn Road on the north side of the harbor – received significant support from the neighbors, and had been recommended for approval by planning staff. But the commissioners believed broader issues were at stake.