To the east sit the posh department stores of downtown Seattle. To the west, the “big box” chains and mall outlets of Silverdale.
Somewhere in the middle sits little Winslow, its homegrown merchants straining to remind islanders to keep their dollars local during the holiday season.
If the city of Bainbridge Island agrees that AT&T Broadband can take over the cable TV franchise, both AT&T and Northland will pay the utility tax that the city imposed in 1999.
Northland has refused to pay the tax, asserting that under terms of a 1970 franchise agreement, the franchise fee is in lieu of all other taxes.
Book store owners Bob and Nancy Fortner complement each other while they support books, rather like the handcrafted book ends they show for the “Christmas in the Country” tour Nov. 30.
“People may remember the annual book-ends show from downtown – we started it the year before the move,” Bob Fortner said. “We always, in our travels, looked for interesting book ends.”
Does downtown Winslow have a parking problem? If so, a dearth of spaces is only half of it. Consider these signs posted around town:
“Customer Parking Only”…“1 Hour Parking For This Building Only”…“Private 2-Hour Customer Parking Only.” And the ubiquitous “LOOK – GATEWAY TOWING (etc.).”
Bryce and Susan Phillipy want kids to get the message that even one experiment with drugs can spell disaster.
The family knows the dangers of drugs firsthand; their 17 year old son, Kyle, has been in a coma at Harborview Medical Center since ingesting morphine Nov 11.
Four mesh “mist nets”: $200.
Peter Pyle’s “Identification of North American Birds”: $32.
A spotted towhee in the hand: priceless.
For bird enthusiasts who flocked to a banding demonstration last Saturday at Battle Point Park, it was an invaluable chance to get out from behind the binoculars.
Dancing snowflakes will spin and twirl when Bainbridge Dance Center and Bainbridge Performing Arts join forces to present “The Snow Queen” Nov 30.
Something about Thanksgiving made us think of Tim Eyman.
Must’ve been the turkey.
As we were picking up our birds this week, the irrepressible Eyman handed us another gobbler in the form of his 2002 tax-cutting initiative, and the promise that he would churn out a new measure every year.
With new parks and a new swimming pool come new costs to keep them going, park officials say.
In February, island voters will be asked to approve a new and higher property tax levy – projected to be $1.48 per $1,000 assessed valuation – to pay the bills.
Are we “oldtimers” yet?
If not, we do feel a bit closer to the coveted status of credentialed Bainbridge local, having attended the premiere screening Friday evening of a new video on the history of Fort Ward.
The word for Bainbridge Island’s approach to AT&T is “gingerly.”
While city officials believe significant gains could result if AT&T replaces Northland as the city’s cable TV operator, it wants to make sure that some present advantages are not lost in the process.
When Rose and Tom Hesselbrock looked into the tiny face of their adopted daughter Caley for the first time in 1991, the Bainbridge couple, like new parents everywhere, fell in love.
Caley’s mixed heritage from an African American birth father and Caucasian birth mother in no way lessened the Hesselbrocks’ regard for their daughter – but her background would present ethical dilemmas as they considered raising a child of color on predominantly white Bainbridge.
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.
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