There’s nothing like a saunter through the Review’s “morgue books” – the dusty old volumes of newspapers past, in
newsroom parlance – to remind us that many of our island preoccupations transcend years, decades, generations even.
Woodward is No. 1 in state at Knowledge Master Open.
The Knowledge Master team from Woodward Middle School went in with a mission: score at least 1,400 points in the nationwide competition.
That they did – and in the process emerged as the top team in Washington state.
Structure’s third move is a first for the historical society.
Next week won’t be the first time Bainbridge Islanders have seen parts of the Bainbridge Island Historical Museum trucked down the road. But it will still be the most important move in the museum’s history.
The Rhoades Cycling team hit the road, and the off-road, in 2003.
The city has not charged the Seattle property owners for the past three years.
As stocking stuffers go, one might prefer coal.
The owners of the Village Shopping Center, and by extension its 18 tenant businesses, were presented this month with a bill from the city for $21,510.33 for back sewer service charges.
The school district is conducting a facilities review of every building in the system to help shape the construction bond that will go before voters in November 2004, administrators say.
The Bainbridge Island Historical Society and Bainbridge Island Broadcasting signed a contract last week to collaborate on a new series of programs on island history.
However we may measure the troubles and challenges of our particular day and age, we are sometimes reminded that we islanders and Americans have survived darker times still.
We thought of such this week, browsing back issues of the Review and the musings of our editorial forebears, Walt and Mildred Woodward.
Smith and Simpson answer with a vision for island’s artistic presence.
Creating a plan for The Street has been something of a road trip for artists Maggie Smith and Buster Simpson.
The two artists were commissioned by the city a year ago to conceptually frame, highlight and enhance three important points of entry to the island and downtown.
The result: an Arts Master Plan for Winslow Way, which was accepted by the council Dec. 10.
A new program puts challenged students on the job with local businesses. BR>
In a pre-lunch-rush lull, Travis Gallup works quickly, pressing a crust into each of the six deep-dish, mini-pizza pans on the narrow counter, then carefully ladling on the sauce.
The job, he says, is stressful at times, when it’s busy and the pizza pans run out. It also took a while to figure out a good way to get the right amount of cheese on each pizza.
The city and its attorney agree to cap costs for general services.
The city may yet put the brakes on accelerating legal costs.
General legal spending will be capped at $225,000 next year, under a new agreement with the Bellevue firm of Inslee, Best, Doezie, Rider, which has provided services to the city for more than a decade.
A local activist we know has complained that this newspaper spends too much time talking to architects and ministers.
Our response: both groups are making things happen around us, shaping our community as surely as the many islanders working to preserve trees or restore streams. It would be senseless to ignore them or dismiss their work because some are personally discomfited or affronted by it.
But reliability and cost are still long-term questions.
Washington State Ferries will begin a test early next year of wireless technology, in hopes of offering Internet access to ferry passengers – both on the passenger deck and from within cars.
