There’s never been a figure in Washington politics quite like Frank Chopp.
Planning began for our park district’s 50th “Birthday Bash” over six months ago.
Bainbridge High School’s All Class Reunions are always profound, poignant, playful — lighthearted one moment and heavy hitting the next.
There’s an emergency! Skip this multi-cultural history and go right to the last paragraphs!
No telling how many years the “Soquamis Bay” has been a port of call for visitors hereabouts. The old petroglyph known as “Haleelts” on Agate Point bears witness to a few thousand years of comings and goings. But it is unlikely anyone during that time had ever seen two things witnessed there on Feb. 16, 2015.
Art Koura, 96, beloved resident and friend of Bainbridge Island, died peacefully Dec. 29, 2014, at Seattle’s Keiro House.
Harold Alden Champeness, 90, beloved legendary Pacific Northwest upright jazz bassist, singer and humorist died April 10 in Poulsbo. He lived most of his life in Seabold on Bainbridge Island and also in Ballard, Poulsbo and Bergen, Norway.
The season of light seemed dark last year in Eagle Harbor. A Christmas Ship ventured from Seattle past children’s bedtimes.
There was a time when Island folk did little on the only national holiday to honor a U.S. citizen who was not a president.
Jack Kutz, 90, marine surveyor and lover of boats, cast off the mooring lines of this life on Nov. 2 from a Seattle nursing home. The yard in Venice on Bainbridge Island where he lived several decades was once chock-a-block full of keelboats, sailing and rowing dinghies, and maritime flotsam and jetsam. The boats are gone now.
Last weekend, Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal Church in Bremerton celebrated its 100th anniversary in grand style, “remembering the past, honoring the present, envisioning the future” – and there certainly was singing!
Last weekend, Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal Church in Bremerton celebrated its 100th anniversary in grand style, “remembering the past, honoring the present, envisioning the future” – and there certainly was singing!
Ever want to run a historic bed-and-breakfast? Here’s your chance! How important is it for us to preserve the E. L. & Clara Franks Residence (1913) that most know as Bainbridge Island’s Captain’s House B&B? And who or how shall we do it? We may not have much time to decide!
