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Photo of the Day: Bainbridge Athletes Represent at Special Olympics
The Golden Eagles, nine track and field athletes from the Bainbridge Island Special Olympics Team, spent last weekend (May 30-June 1) along with hundreds of athletes from across the state at Joint...
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Letter to the Editor: Saddened by Inaccurate & Divisive Message of 3...
Last August, we filed a Public Records Act lawsuit against the City of Bainbridge Island and certain individual councilpersons, after learning they had been conducting City business from their...
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BI Diver Takes Another Leap Toward Nationals
by Drew Wolff with Sarah Lane Three members of the Bainbridge Island Dive Club have just returned from the 2014 USA Diving Summer Junior Region 10 Championships held June 13-15 in Santa Clara,...
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Bainbridge Dance Center’s 33rd Annual Student Performance Is This Week
They’ve been doing this a long time, 33 years, and they’ve got the hair buns just right. The Bainbridge Dance Center, a downtown institution, is ready again to show off what its students, ages 4 to...
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Driver Airlifted to Seattle After Crashing on Highway 305 at Vineyard Lane
Today, July 2, at 7 a.m. a female driver headed southbound on Highway 305 toward the ferry veered off the roadway, smashed into a speed sign, and ended up in the ditch. Other drivers stopped to assist...
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Bainbridge Gets Credit Rating Upgrade from Moody’s
Moody’s Investor Service just gave Bainbridge a credit rating boost on July 8 by upgrading the City’s long-term rating from Aa3 to Aa2 on the City’s Unlimited Tax General Obligation (UTGO) bonds....
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Fire Department Warns of Increasing Wildfire Risk
With dry conditions and sunny, hot temperatures in the upper 80s predicted for the foreseeable future, the Bainbridge Island Fire Department (BIFD) has released a fire danger warning. According to...
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Spartan Football Team Muscles up with “Jeep” Weight Training (w/ Video)
by Sarah Lane and Julie Hall The Bainbridge High School football team began its morning today, July 15, with some creative training. Coach Criss had the boys take turns pulling and pushing a...
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Google Features Bainbridge’s Go2Marine as WA Marketing Campaign Case Study
Last August, Google named Bainbridge Island the Digital Capital of Washington as part of its eCity recognition program. Now, as part of a marketing campaign touting Google as “helping” Washington...
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Poll: Is Bainbridge Looking too Good for Its Own Good?
Bainbridge Island has been quite the state/national darling lately. An article this week in the Huffington Post included us among the top ten idyllic islands to retire on. Last month our ferry rides...
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Nonprofit Run by 3 BI Women Wins $5,000 to Build a School in Myanmar
In 2008, Cyclone Nargis destroyed 60 percent of the schools in Myanmar’s Delta region and orphaned 20,000 children. In 2012, three Islanders—Melody Mociulski, Sandy Shubach, and Laurie...
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Police Blotter 7/30/14: Unwanted, Intoxicated People of Both Genders
POLICE BLOTTER July 29 Messy Car Prowl. A woman reported a car prowl to her vehicle parked on Knechtel. She said the car door had been left ajar. Grocery bags, car information including registration,...
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Pretty Final Election Update: “Only 5 Ballots Left to Count”
With all Kitsap County precincts completed and an estimated “5 ballots” left to count, we can be relatively certain of the results of the Tuesday, August 5, primary elections. The turnout is still...
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Teen Arrested for Alleged Murder of Jenise Wright Nodded an Admission of Guilt
Gabriel Gaeta appeared in Kitsap County Superior Court this afternoon, August 11, where Judge Kevin Hull reviewed his suspected crimes and set bail at $1 million. The stocky, muscular 17-year-old...
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Photo of the Day: Severe Overnight Weather Destroys Girl Scout Shelters at...
Every summer at Battle Point Park, Bainbridge Island volunteers run a week-long girl scout camp. On Monday they set up seven shelters to use throughout the week. Last night’s heavy wind and rain...
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Local Business Makes Donation to Replace Girl Scout Equipment Destroyed in Storm
Bainbridge Island girl scouts had an unpleasant surprise Wednesday morning, August 13, when they arrived at Battle Point Park to find that their camp site had been seriously damaged by stormy weather....
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Bainbridge Island’s Girl in a Tree Decides to Come Down
by Julie Hall and Sarah Lane Chiara D’Angelo began climbing down from her 70-foot-high tree-sitting perch tonight at approximately 8:00, shortly after the 7:30 deadline for her arrest. During a rally...
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PSE Work on Key Power Towers Starting 9/1 at Agate Pass Could Affect Traffic
Two aging lattice steel towers that carry all of Bainbridge’s power across Agate Pass have “reached the end of their lifespans,” according to PSE Project Manager Barry Lombard. The towers were built...
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Bainbridge School District 2014-2015 Bus Routes
Here are the Bainbridge Island School District’s regularly scheduled bus routes for the 2014-2015 school year. The first day of school is Wednesday, September 3. Click to enlarge....
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Bainbridge Frog Nabbed from Colman Dock
A 45-pound frog has been reported missing from its temporary home at Colman Dock in Seattle. The 40″ x 30″ x 24″ sculpture on a large base had been on display at the Seattle Ferry Terminal for over a...
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