As Bob Dylan so famously graveled, “The times, they are a-changin’.” And it seems nowhere on the island’s music scene are the times more a-changin’ than at the Island Music Guild.
With more than 250,000 visitors and half a million books checked out a year, the Bainbridge Public Library is arguably one of the island’s most busy and well-loved community centers.
Deb Buitenveld sits at her desk in the front room of a single-family home on John Adams Lane. Opposite her paper-strewn desk, there is a closet full of arts and crafts materials, and in the other room, members of the organization of which Buitenveld is co-founder and program director are making pizzas.
It began about 15 years ago as little more than a group of passionate parents, a dozen students and the vision for an alternative style of education on the island.
While the farm-to-table movement has been a staple in sustainable agriculture in recent years, one island nonprofit is adding a link: school-to-farm.
While Seattle boasts a mere 58 sunny days a year on average, one Bainbridge Island nonprofit is basking in the sunshine.
Islanders turned out in droves Wednesday night at city hall for the Department of Ecology’s public hearing on the city’s controversial update to its Shoreline Master Program, which was passed 4-3 by the council in May.
The city of Bainbridge Island hopes to fund the first leg of a major new pedestrian and bike asphalt pathway that would run from the ferry terminal to the Agate Pass Bridge.
Erik Peffer was sworn in by Bainbridge Police Chief Matthew Hamner, Wednesday.
Classical music wafted over the sun-drenched meeting room of the Wing Point Golf & Country Club Monday evening as residents of that island neighborhood clasped glasses of Chardonnay and brand-name handbags to discuss the equally glamorous topic of sewage.
Adem Solak turned the kebab on the grill as the smell of cooking meat wafted down Winslow Way.
A pair of persistent islanders tracked down a smoldering fire Monday that had eluded Bainbridge firefighters over the weekend.
The Bainbridge Island City Council approved a last-minute agreement with the Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife at its meeting last week to guarantee that plans for a new seawall at Rockaway Beach will protect the shoreline environment.
