Back in the day, when the Northwest summer finally settled over Bainbridge like a warm, fuzzy blanket, there was no question where island kids would… Continue reading
They are ruining our community.They can’t be trusted with our money.They should put it all to a public vote.Funny times are these, when the rhetoric… Continue reading
Faced with the bare facts, any media hack would draw the same conclusion: there’s a difference in news value between a threatening letter directed at… Continue reading
Was that partisanship in the air at the Kitsap County Commission this week? We’re shocked – shocked! – at such a notion.Yet efforts to find… Continue reading
It’s not the most positive review when the value of aconservation project is measured in bird poo.Yet such was the assessment by one expert from… Continue reading
Different communities spawn different mythologies.In upper-class suburban enclaves, teen-on-teen violence is embodied in the popular mind by the dark-clad outcast, shunned in regular social circles… Continue reading
In an age of diminishing expectations – of buying power, affordable health care, retirement at a still-vigorous age, world peace, the very survival of the… Continue reading
Those were the days, 1989.You could buy a nice house on Bainbridge Island for $150,000, and a mobile home went for less than half that… Continue reading
Something has been lostIf you were wondering how some City Council members could boycott their own meeting last week with a fair conscience, here’s your… Continue reading
It was a season of searing heat, and not just at the beach. Collars were plenty sticky behind the wheel and behind the counter.The summer… Continue reading
The thing about the 200 Building was, nobodyexpected to build it.Commodore Middle School eighth graders were all poised to tour Bainbridge High School on May… Continue reading
Like buffalo to the watering hole, every Thursday evening they came – scores, perhaps hundreds of motorcyclists drawn to the neighborhood pub for build-your-own tacos… Continue reading
Sheila Crofut never thought of herself a cat person, but when she was asked to take in a 13 year-old black-and-white kitty named Chin Chin,… Continue reading
Whose downtown is it, anyway?While we all take a proprietary interest in “our” Winslow Way, some interests are more equal than others. That’s why we’ve… Continue reading
Nineteen trees lost, 184 trees planted.That’s the forecast on the Bainbridge High School campus, on the essential eve of ground breaking for the new 200… Continue reading
Any dope can get a driver’s license. Judging bythe shenanigans you see on our public roadways these days, many of them do.Boaters operate by a… Continue reading
There are many words that come to mind while strolling along Water Street in Port Townsend, but “canyon” isn’t among them.The towering buildings of the… Continue reading
All carrot, no stick. Those four words might explain why a historic building on Ericksen Avenue – and perhaps, in time, the others around it… Continue reading
Anyone for a run at council?
Many weeks into his epic hike along the Appalachian Trail, author and humorist Bill Bryson picked up a Nashville newspaper to see what was going… Continue reading