The formal name of that little church by the side of the highway at the island’s north end is the United Methodist Church at Seabold.
Historically, that name puts the “men” before the “ah” – the church was a thriving community congregation years before it was affiliated with the United Methodist denomination.
David Martin champions first-class photographers history once labeled second-class.
But it was a single extraordinary painting that turned Martin into a lifelong booster of “outsider” artists, like the Japanese American photographers on whom he’ll lecture Feb. 24 at the Bainbridge Library.
With a single tug, the island’s Japanese American community removed a veil from history.
A crowd of more than 10 got a first look at a new National Park Service exhibit on the Japanese internment during World War II Tuesday – 60 years to the day after the exclusion order was signed.
The 10×12-foot display, now in the city hall lobby, includes poetry, historical texts, a map of the 10 “relocation centers” – and a photograph of Bainbridge residents of Japanese descent being loaded onto a truck bound for the Manzanar camp.
Shoreline communities would get significant state help in removing abandoned or junk boats under a bill from Rep. Phil Rockefeller (D-Bainbridge Island), which unanimously passed the state House of Representatives this week.
We were distressed by the travails of an island pre-school operator (reported in last Saturday’s edition) who is now looking at her third location in a little over a year.
Day care, after all, is a vital necessity in a world where more than half of parents work – it’s particularly critical to single mothers. So it seems incumbent on the city to make matters as easy as possible for day-care providers.
The health club on Madison Avenue remained closed this week, but apparently will reopen this week under the management of two employees.
Several sources said the reopening is planned for Saturday, but the Review could not reach either of the employees, or the court-appointed receiver with control over operations.
One of Bainbridge Island’s cherished beliefs is that business and the environment can coexist peacefully.
The Puget Sound Environmental Learning Center is taking that one step further. Its mission is the environment, but it is a business that will make a significant contribution to the local economy.
“This is the largest capital construction project at one time in island history,” said PSELC founder Paul Brainerd of the $32.5 million multi-building campus taking shape off of Blakely Avenue.
Where there should have been two pairs of eyes shining in the beam of his flashlight, Andrew “Huck” Murdoch saw four.
Roused from his sleep by wild barking, Murdoch had tramped into the pasture outside his Sunrise Drive home to check the welfare of his livestock.
There he surprised a large dog with its teeth bared, savaging two of his sheep as a second dog bounded outside the fence trying to get in.
For author and scholar Hazard Adams, “Home” is both an anarchist commune and an English department.
Adams’ novel “Home,” from which he reads Feb. 21 at Eagle Harbor Books, moves between the 19th century Puget Sound commune of the same name and a contemporary university – much like the schools where Adams himself has taught for a half century.
In the time it takes to pose a question, Sakai’s Knowledge Master Open team can find the answer.
Responding within seconds to 100 timed questions, the thirty KMO team members proved tops in Washington State and eighth nationwide, earning 801 of 1,000 possible points in the winter 2002 Knowledge Master Open test administered in January.
Sandra Schwarz’s new violin is old, and her old instrument is new.
Schwarz owns a modern-style violin made in 1789, but the Baroque period instrument Schwarz plays with Iris Quartet for the Feb. 24 Housing Resources Board benefit was fabricated in the 1980s.
The two instruments appear similar to the unschooled eye, but Schwarz points to subtle distinctions.
The answers are: A) 59 B) 57 C) 58
And now the questions:
A) What percentage of American voters chose Ronald Reagan in the 1984 presidential election – a margin invariably described as a “landslide”?
B) What percentage of Washington state voters in November 2000 said “yes” to anti-car-tab Initiative 695, a margin invariably described as “overwhelming”?
C) What percentage of Bainbridge Island voters gave their support to the park district levy on the Feb. 5 ballot – a number sitting comfortably between “overwhelming” and “landslide,” yet unavoidably described with an altogether different term: “defeat”?
Of the $74 million raised from 5,000 investors nationwide, only some $500,000 appears to have gone unspent.
And saying she saw no hope that the Bainbridge-based Znetix/HMC would become viable, federal Judge Marsha Pechman Thursday appointed a receiver to find whatever assets remain – a decision company attorneys said is a death knell for the businesses.
“I see nothing to go forward with, no assets from which a company can function,” Pechman said, ruling from the bench after a two-hour hearing in a packed Seattle courtroom.