Gary Anderson is always giving his students A’s.
As the Bainbridge Orchestra’s concertmaster – principal first violin and head of the string section – Anderson leads the tuning before each rehearsal and performance, adjusting his ‘A’ string to match the oboe and setting the pitch for the rest of the strings.
Coastal Native cedar basket meets Plains Indian powwow drum, as native traditions from all over “Turtle Island” are celebrated during Native American month.
There’s more than enough hunger to go around this Thanksgiving.
Helpline House has seen a 25 percent increase in the number of families using its food bank services over the past year, director Joanne Tews said.
“Usually we see 130 families,” Tews said. “This year it’s 160.”
A disturbing trend, she said, is the increasing number of people with jobs who can’t make ends meet.
By its very nature, a city budget is a bit of a bore, a bloodless document full of endless numbers.
In glancing at the preliminary budget for 2002, though, we were immediately struck – perhaps even smote – by the fact that the largest single expense category is something labelled “support for developers.”
At first blush, the city’s preliminary budget looks badly askew.
Viewed by percentages, the largest item of spending for the coming year is labeled “support for developers.” The budget item totals over $3.2 million – almost 20 percent of the operations budget – in 2002.
It begins, as such matters often do, with the coquettish wiggle of a tail.
With a like-minded mate, that wiggle becomes a spirited, frenzied flapping, and a brief but intense union on a bed of loose gravel into which will be committed the seed of the next generation.
Give the event sufficient vigor – two salmon can indeed make quite a ruckus – and even the neighbors may notice.
For Bainbridge activist/authors Linda Wolf and Neva Welton, writing “Global Uprising: Confronting the Tyrannies of the 21st Century” has served personal ends, and larger ones.
As a Superfund environmental cleanup rolls on around it, an old house needs a new home.
Local historians hope to preserve the former Wyckoff plant’s sole remaining row house, believed to be of pre-World War I construction and the last of 17 that were part of the company town called Creosote.
Despite the common perception of rapid change, Bainbridge is a rather stable community, according to two new surveys that shed light on island demographics.
But we are not economically independent or isolated.
Note to AT&T Broadband: Islanders like their Mariners games. All of them.
Second note: They’re perfectly happy to drop cable for satellite dishes, when the service of the local provider falls short.
On the home front, the environment still matters.
Touring the Wyckoff Superfund site Saturday afternoon, U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell pledged support for completion of cleanup projects around the Northwest, even as the nation’s attention is focused abroad.
Lies are true in author George Shannon’s books.
They are just not the whole truth.
Shannon’s new collection “More True Lies; Eighteen Tales for You to Judge” invites young readers to resolve paradoxes embedded in language.
AT&T Broadband’s buyout of the Northland cable TV franchise on Bainbridge Island will require approval by the city.