“A North Kitsap troupe brings oddities to BHS.An Empty Space provokes a crowded stage. Or to put it another way – director Peter Brook’s book has inspired the North Kitsap-based West Sound Academy to fill the Bainbridge High School theater with dance, drama, music and visual arts. We’re looking at how different acts of theater can transform the performance space, said producer Jack Yantis. The show depends upon BHS students for technical support, and involves several West Sound Academy pupils who live on the island.”
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“An environmentalist reading of ‘Lord of the Rings.”The road goes ever on and onDown from the door where it began.Now far ahead the road has gone,And I must follow, if I can,Pursuing it with weary feet,Until it joins some longer way,Where many paths and errands meet.And whither then? I can not say.”That sounds like a bit of old Bilbo’s rhyming,’ says Pippin.But to a studied reader like islander Maggie Fitzgerald – that sounds like the work of old Tolkien.”
“You can’t teach talent, but you can nurture it.And Bainbridge High School is reaping the rewards, in the form of Washington State High School Photography Competition prizes.”
“Secretary of State Ralph Munro stopped in to the office a few weeks back, but we were too busy to see him. Now that’s a heck of thing to say – too busy to make time for the secretary of state – and the shame is going to stick with us for a while. You have our humblest apologies, sir.Thus reproved, we can relay to readers that the occasion of his visit was the establishment of the new George and Betty Munro Foundation, an annual scholarship fund that will support one or more Bainbridge High School graduates each year as they head off to college.”
“A north-end rate hike stems from higher costs, company officials say.Citing the cost of new fire safety and service improvements, the North Bainbridge Water Company has applied for a rate increase that could take effect next month.Under the proposed rates, customers who consume 846 cubic feet of water per month – last year’s average – would pay 24 percent more than they do now. Heavier users would see steeper hikes.”
“Points for the cleverest campaign button would probably go to the woman flashing Read My Lips: No New Texans.And thus commenced a season of serious sloganeering, as local Democrats rallied to promote a new campaign headquarters upstairs at Winslow Mall Thursday evening.”
“Host families are needed for a dozen foreign students.When foreign exchange students come to Bainbridge Island to learn about environmental issues, they sometimes benefit from elements of island atmosphere that natives take for granted.Suzy Cook, who hosted an exchange student from Mexico last year through the Center for Cultural Interchange (CCI), said her student often spent time outdoors at her Eagledale farm, simply breathing.’He said, ‘you don’t understand,’ Cook recalled, ‘Mexico City is so crowded that we go away on the weekends just so we can breathe clean air.'”
“State Rep. Phil Rockefeller is considering a race for Washington state lands commissioner, instead of seeking re-election to his 23rd District house seat.Either way, the Bainbridge Island Democrat says, he doesn’t support incumbent Land Commissioner Jennifer Belcher’s recent hard-line stance against liveaboards in state waters.”
“When developer Rod McKenzie first saw Bainbridge Island, he didn’t see new subdivisions in the woods, or starter castles on large lots. He saw what he calls urban living at its finest.We liked the village atmosphere of Winslow, McKenzie said. We chose to live here so we could walk instead of driving.And he has prospered on Bainbridge by making that option available to others. His Winslow Mews condominium complex on Wyatt Way between Madison and Ericksen avenues was a critical and commercial smash hit. And he hopes to repeat that success with his new Courtyards on Madison development.”
“For those staging A Comedy of Errors, the play’s name may seem like a bad joke. A mistake is no laughing matter when it comes to maintaining the precision this slippery piece of drama demands. Our production is intensely disciplined, says Amy Thone, who plays the shrewish Adriana in the Seattle Shakespeare Festival’s rendition that comes to the BPA Playhouse Friday. It’s like a dance – nobody can afford to miss a beat. And Shakespeare’s play certainly keeps audience and actors on their toes.”
“Fresh out of bed, Tom Berg plunges his Cannondale T7000 touring bike into the last throes of morning darkness, barreling toward the first bleary-eyed boat to Seattle.At approximately 5:07 a.m., he puts a foot down halfway up the first hill on Highway 305 and waits, glancing back at his heavily huffing partner-in-commute. In Berg’s 13 years of biking to work, only a few flat tires have caused him to miss the ferry’s 5:30 a.m. sailing. And setting out from his home on Hidden Cover Road, he says, sometimes he doesn’t even embark early.Some mornings, I’ll be leaving kind of late, he says topping the hill, but that just guarantees a better workout.Yet this morning, despite a prompt departure, he’s falling behind schedule, as another yellow-florescent commuter turns in front of him from Manitou Beach Road and pedals out of sight.”
“Illahee-to-Bainbridge bridge update: about eight people still seem to think it’s a good idea.We can relay this, having reviewed several accounts of a recent Saturday morning presentation in Poulsbo by the citizen group variously known as West Sound Connections and LINKS. The group was trying to drum up support amongst North Kitsap residents for a new span connecting the peninsula with our own Crystal Springs neighborhood, with construction of a cross-island thoroughfare to a passenger-only ferry terminal at Blakely Harbor.”
