Crews are poised on Bainbridge’s doorstep, waiting to begin stringing fiber-optic cable down the island’s spine.
All the Kitsap Public Utility District is waiting for now is a go-ahead from the city council, in the form of an ordinance granting right-of-way use, and a franchise agreement.
“We can probably have fiber on the island by the end of the year if all goes well,” said David Jones of KPUD.
Michael Trimble was a football star, until he opened his mouth.
A student on a football scholarship at a Texas junior college, Trimble was recruited by a teacher from the music department for a bit part in Carlo Menotti’s opera, “Amahl and the Night Visitors.”
“I was just a football player taking Speech because it was a ‘gut class,’” said Trimble, who speaks to Bainbridge Music and Arts on Sept. 20.
“A gentleman came in and said, ‘We need some big kid to play the slave.’ He neglected to tell me I would have to sing.”
After 25 years of operating in Winslow just off Highway 305, Bainbridge Island Vineyards and Winery owners Gerard and Joann Bentryn are putting the downtown property up for sale.
Their hope is to rebuild a tasting room and sales facility on their other property on Day Road East, where they grow most of their grapes. But their ability to do so depends on whether the city will amend the zoning code to allow year-round sales at that location.
Anti-semitic fliers were placed on the windshields of several vehicles outside city hall Friday afternoon, police say.
The tri-fold brochure showed an image of the second World Trade Center building about to be struck by an airplane, emblazoned with the large word “Why?”
Text inside the brochure purported to quote Arab suicide bombers, and concluded with the message, “Get out of Palestine, Jews, or die here.”
The brochures were signed by a known Aryan Nations-related organization with a splinter groups in Washington, Cooper said. They did not appear to be targeted at specific individuals, although it was unclear who received them.
Although ballots are coming back a little slower than usual, Kitsap County Auditor Karen Flynn still expects a primary election turnout of around 45 percent countywide, a bit higher on Bainbridge.
“We’re at about 20 percent now,” Flynn said Thursday, “but I think back-to-school and 9-11 memorials have slowed things down.”
Proposed changes to the Shoreline Master Plan that could include a buffer of native vegetation – including trees – between shoreline properties and the water came under withering fire from a packed house at Thursday night’s Planning Commission meeting.
“I’m astounded at the proposed plan,” said Dave Berry, who lives on Eagle Harbor. “You will be told what you can plant, and how you can walk to the beach. This is more restrictive than anywhere else.”
We can think of many reasons to dislike
cable television.
Cost comes to mind. Then there’s programming. And, of course, the tendency of the medium itself to root rumps to sofas, causing good limbs to atrophy and numbing otherwise curious minds into stupor and inertia.
Other than that, cable’s great. And as reported earlier this week, islanders have cause to actually celebrate the buyout of the local cable franchise by mega-provider AT&T.
If the views of the city’s planners prevail, the views of future waterfront dwellers might be a bit narrower.
In revised shoreline regulations under consideration, city planners propose the requirement of a planted buffer zone “in a diversity and density natural to the conditions of a native area.”
In plain talk, that means trees.
After AT&T Broadband bought out the Northland Cablevision franchise on Bainbridge Island, it moved operations from High School Road to a more central facility in Kitsap County.
Now, AT&T is offering virtually all of its inherited Bainbridge holdings to local agencies – 10 acres of forested land to the park district, a studio for Bainbridge Island Broadcasting, and space on its towers for local emergency communications.
Even as news of a new studio was announced Monday, Bainbridge Island Broadcasting’s on-air look was already undergoing considerable change.
Last week, AT&T stopped running its slate of community advertisements, making Channel 6 available to BIB around the clock.
For the time being, the amount of programming won’t change perceptibly, but the times will be more convenient, Executive Director Wendy Johnson said.
“Under the old arrangement, we could not broadcast between 5 and 8 p.m., but now we will have those hours available,” she said.
For better or worse, they’re not the new kids on the block any more.
When the Spartan gridders went 7-3 overall their first time out in Metro League – and made the state 3A playoffs for the first time since 1996 – it caught the competition by surprise.
This year, they won’t be sneaking up on anybody on the other side of Puget Sound.
Sometimes in this column, we are the voice of the community. Often we’re just one voice among many. And occasionally, we gladly defer to the
wisdom of our island neighbors.
This is one of those days. As we contemplated how best to commemorate the terrible attacks on our nation of a year ago today – struggling for words of relevance, of meaning, for a day that still largely defies comprehension – we opened the mail and found these comments from reader Bob Satterwhite. We found great wisdom in his thoughts, and we want to use this space to share them with readers.
There’s nothing wrong with Winslow, mind you, but as the island has grown, so has its downtown.
Morrie and Kathy Blossom, whose roots on Bainbridge Island go back generations, don’t just dream about the days when you could walk downtown and know everybody you met.
They are trying to recreate that era at Lynwood Commons, their multi-building project on the island’s south end.
