She grew up when the ferries went to Blakely Harbor, and bowlers practiced at a six-lane alley at Fort Ward.
And having lived Bainbridge history, she chronicled it with a book that’s still in print.
“Old Bainbridge” lost one of its most colorful figures Jan. 12, with the death of Katherine “Katy” Warner at Island Health and Rehabilitation Center. She was 84.
If Connie Mueller received a “thank you” note from every young person she has helped over the past six years, she might be buried by a paper avalanche.
Mueller retires as managing director of Bainbridge Youth Services this week.
The Tariff Policy Committee will “go public” with its recommendation to decrease ferry fares for daily commuters while increasing the fares for others, with public meetings in February and March.
Private pilot Chris Smith was sure he had grounds for complaint.
After all, he’d come very close to dying.
The checklist program on his Palm Pilot that was supposed to make flying an unfamiliar single-engine plane straightforward had made it a nightmare instead.
The Nipponzan Myohoji Buddhist temple has reflective surfaces that make the well-lit space seem even brighter.
Brocade cascades down five tiers of the altar like a metallic waterfall, while 1,000 gold and silver origami cranes circle, suspended on string. Across the altar’s highest tier, six golden bodhisattvas dance on massive tree trunks.
The new city council’s first meeting this week reminded us a little of those fishing shows on cable television – you knew something was going on, but it was mostly below the surface.
History marches on, this time from Strawberry Hill into the heart of Winslow.
Bainbridge Island Historical Society board members and city officials signed a lease agreement Tuesday, formalizing a plan to move the historical museum to Ericksen Avenue and the so-called “Three Tree Park.”
Those who heard the “surround sound” performance by the 200-voice MLK Jr. Memorial Choir last year know that when director Patrinell Wright dubbed the event Sing Out!, she named the event well.
The incoming Bainbridge Island city council wants to function as a free-standing legislature – an independent branch of city government.
To do so, though, it wants things like office space, dedicated staff and equipment, all of which cost money.
In a debate that seemed unlikely to change many minds, opponents of the proposed Kitsap County charter argued Thursday night that the document is a prescription for bad government, while supporters claimed it is the county’s chance to free itself from the shackles of a uniform, century-old system.
Rainbow colors of several hundred artworks splash across Bainbridge Arts and Crafts walls this month.
The biennial exhibit of elementary art gathers paintings, sculpture, prints and drawings from eight island public and private schools.
Dinah Satterwhite’s photographs, now on display at the library, bring the Northwest landscape indoors.
Familiar scenes like the Grand Forest and the library’s Japanese garden have been transformed by her technique. Sometimes this involves hand-tinting the images; most recently, it has meant shooting with infrared film.
Mike Thorne should peel off his Pendleton sweater and try a Walla Walla sweet onion, to bond with politicians east of the mountains.
That was one suggestion for the new director of Washington State Ferries, as he was introduced to public and press Monday afternoon at the Bremerton Transit Center.