A diesel spill fouled the waters of Eagle Harbor early Friday, leaving a wide petroleum sheen at the mouth of the Winslow ravine.
Garrett Bennett and Ann Wilkinson came home to make a movie – a movie about coming home.
The result, “Farewell to Harry,” is featured in a special screening this weekend at the island’s annual film festival, “Celluloid Bainbridge.”
Writer/director Bennett and co-producer Wilkinson hadn’t seen each other since graduating from Bainbridge High School in the early 1980s. But when Bennett told her about the project, Wilkinson moved back from New York, where she had been acting and writing.
When freeholders held their only Bainbridge meeting to discuss the Kitsap County
charter, one islander noted that a lot of folks will vote against any change – particularly if they think it will cost them money.
Wiccan York-Patten is familiar with the poor choices of some would-be pet owners.
Many come by her Paws and Fins store hoping to find new homes for their pets – or simply to abandon the animals on the doorstep.
Roy Peratrovich’s home resembles a nature preserve.
Otters twist through seaweed; bears loll in the sun; eagles perch on branches and killer whales leap – all worked in clay by the artist and then cast in bronze.
Why sing the blues, when you can play them instead?
Thanks to some can-do spirit, and a good ear for rockin’ tunes on the part of local restaurateurs, three island causes prospered.
Some call him the “Initiative King,” but it’s more apparent than ever that a better title would be “Knave.”
Reading the resume, it’s not readily apparent what might be controversial about Lafe Myers, M.D.
He has a medical degree from the University of Washington, became board-certified in psychiatry, and moved into medical management before retiring to Bainbridge Island.
With $8 million in public funds available, island landowners are lining up to sell their property to the city.
This, before the new Open Space Commission even has a process by which to consider parcels for purchase.
Karol Brown invites her audience to “get on board” the famed Underground Railroad Feb 9.
In a one-woman dramatization for the “Inquiring Minds” series, Brown portrays Harriet Tubman, who led hundreds of slaves to freedom.
The Washington State Legislature is taking a hard look at regional transportation funding districts as a piece of the overall transportation puzzle before tackling a 10-year funding package for comprehensive transportation projects across the state.
It wasn’t a proposal for district-only balloting that killed the proposed new Kitsap County charter, former freeholders and members of the pro-charter Committee for Better Representation said Tuesday night.
It wasn’t a plank to create a new county executive, either, or a provision for nonpartisan elections.
To hear charter supporters during an election-night gathering at the Givens Community Center in Port Orchard, the charter was done in by a lack of voter
awareness and the local Democratic Party leadership.
Whatever the reason, the charter looked doomed for failure in early results released Tuesday evening. With 44,600 ballots counted, Kitsap County voters were rejecting the measure by a margin of 54.91 percent (24,489) opposed and 45.09
percent (20,111) in favor.
Also apparently failing was the Bainbridge Island Park and Recreation District maintenance and operations levy. The two-year, $4.78 million levy, was earning 57 percent support; as an excess levy, it needed 60 percent approval to pass.
Despite a quarter century of prevention programs, Bainbridge students still drink and take drugs.
Now, with survey results pointing to undiminished tobacco, alcohol and drug use, the Bainbridge Island School Board has asked the district’s Health Committee to find solutions.