Bainbridge Island’s three departing city council members believe their terms ended on a note of triumph – and its name was “roundabout.”
Jim Llewellyn, Liz Murray and Merrill Robison all supported the concept of traffic circle at the busy intersection of High School Road and Madison Avenue.
The visitor to Ray Styles’ studio might be attracted to the bright colors of his art supplies, as well as to his work.
The hundreds of sticks of compressed pigment in neat rows on a studio table are this self-styled Impressionist’s medium for the luminous pastel landscapes on view at Bistro Pleasant Beach.
Reality Number One: Washington State Ferries need more money to operate, and more money still to make capital improvements.
Reality Number Two: The state doesn’t have the money, and there are a lot of other demands for any new transportation bucks, leading to…
Reality Number Three: Fares have to go up.
The long wait is over.
After four failed levies dating back to 1993 and a successful fifth in 1999, the new, $5.5 million Don Nakata Memorial Pool made its “informal” debut Wednesday.
In the wake of Sept. 11, Palestinian American Hanna Eady was left frightened and isolated in his Bainbridge home.
“I was hiding because I was, like everyone, in shock,” Eady said. “But I was also a little scared. I knew what had happened here to the Japanese in World War II. And I come from a country where they can come to your house and pull you out without a reason.”
Instead of shopping for Christmas gifts on her lunch hour, Rita Rowe walks from work down the street to Eagle Harbor Congregational Church.
In the sanctuary, she lifts the instrument’s roll-top lid, pushes down two stops, inserts a computer card that cues a “Flemish bell” sound – and rolls the opening chords of “Joy to the World” in arpeggio.
What began as a neighborhood water tank grew to become one of the island’s largest utility systems, and perhaps its longest-running family business.
The legacy now draws to a close, as North Bainbridge Water Company officials this week announced sale of the system to the Poulsbo-based Kitsap Public Utility District.
Some rumors are true.
Speculation that the island’s new cable television provider was itself about to be purchased by a rival outfit came true Wednesday, with the announced merger of AT&T Broadband and Pennsylvania-based Comcast.
The Bainbridge Island City Council signed off last week on the south-end sewer plan.
And while that was a necessary step towards bringing sewer service for four south-end neighborhoods, it didn’t ensure that the sewers will actually be installed.
Bainbridge demands high quality, but its residents are, for the most part, sensitive to environmental concerns.
Catering to those realities, Tom Jorgensen made a niche for himself by turning out high-quality woodworking in an eco-friendly fashion.
In so doing, he’s not only making a statement, but getting out ahead of what he thinks the law will someday require of all craftsmen.
Student access to Internet sites with “militant/extremist” content should be prevented, the Bainbridge School Board decided last week.
But access to sites that deal with drugs and cults are still okay, after the board voted to “filter” just one of eight categories recommended by a parental advisory group.
As each candle of the menorah is lit, the glow illuminating the faces of family and friends grows brighter.
The Jewish Hanukkah ritual of lighting candles has been duplicated every year for millenia.
Despite the weekend’s deluge, this glow was especially bright on Saturday, the seventh day of Hanukkah in the Jewish year 5,761.
The exclusion of Bainbridge Island’s Japanese-American citizens during World War II was one of the community’s greatest tragedies.
The return of so many of those people, and their resuming their place on the island, was one of the community’s greatest triumphs.