What’s so great about Port Townsend? What isn’t? It’s got beaches (and beaches!), sprawling parks, funky shops, excellent art and music, every kind of cuisine, an old-style movie theater, history, beautiful old brick buildings, a nationally respected Arts Center, pretty Victorian homes in all shades of the rainbow, and every kind of place to stay,…
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The Port Townsend Getaway: 16 Ideas for Fun
Posted on 17 June 2013.
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Where on the Island? #9 Pretty Poppies and Tree with a Twist
Posted on 17 June 2013.
With the fine weather we’ve been having, Bainbridge is in full bloom. So, where on the Island are these lovely visions? Be the first to tell us! Contact us here in the comment section, at contact@insidebainbridge.com, or on our Facebook page. Bainbridge Island photographer Marilynn Gottlieb sells all of the photographs featured in Where on the Island as photos or…
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Ovation!’s Les Mis Turns Characters’ Tribulations into Company’s Triumph
Posted on 16 June 2013.
Confession up front: I am one of the 37 people across the nation who sat through and actually liked the recent film version of the musical based on Victor Hugo’s downer novel Les Misérables. I knew Anne Hathaway wasn’t hitting all of her musical notes, but I didn’t care because she was hitting all of the right…
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Rocking the Summer Library Scene with the Kids
Posted on 15 June 2013.
by Trish Bittman Summer is not my favorite season. I have three kids, limited funds, and I work from home, which means I am with them all day every day, just about. So I have to find ways to keep them all (ha!) happy and entertained without breaking the bank or losing my mind. Living…
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Bainbridge Island Museum of Art Gets . . . Art!
Posted on 12 June 2013.
We know the building: Matthew Coates’s eco-friendly and possibly soon-to-be certified LEED Gold stunner at the corner of Winslow and Highway 305. We’ve been hearing about the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art for months. But the persisting question that has bubbled, at least in my mind, is “What about the art?” Yesterday, June 10, on…
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The Blakely Rock Statue Mystery Unveiled
Posted on 11 June 2013.
Just before Christmas a reader sent Inside Bainbridge a photograph of a distant statue on Blakely Rock, the intertidal “Island” about a mile offshore from southeast Bainbridge and across from West Seattle. He asked if we knew anything about the surprising artistic assertion there, which he had noticed from the Seattle-Bainbridge ferry on December 21,…
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Waypoint Gets Its Pièce de Résistance: Bainbridge-Themed Glass Inlay
Posted on 07 June 2013.
Perhaps you have seen the team hard at work beneath a canopy as you’ve driven by: Four people hunched over on the cement at Waypoint Park, right about where that mysterious gravel circle was. The people are Greg Mesmer and Diane Bonciolini, a.k.a. Mesolini Glass; Waypoint Site Manager Bart Berg; and Kimberly Gawlik of the…
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Update: Where on the Island #7—Shed Hairdos
Posted on 05 June 2013.
[The original version of this article was published June 3 at 7 a.m.] Mary Jo Blazina, in addition to having a snazzy name, correctly identified the locations of the two featured sheds with hairdos. Other readers quickly identified the fern-topped shed as being on the Forest to Sky Trail, but Mary Jo also was able to…
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Bay Hay & Feed and Heyday Farm Honored with 2013 Historic Preservation Awards
Posted on 05 June 2013.
The Bainbridge Island Historic Preservation Commission (HPC) has announced the 2013 Blakely Awards, which recognize outstanding historic preservation efforts on the Island. The Commission selected Howard Block and CeAnn Parker, owners of Bay Hay & Feed, for the 2013 Blakely Award for Preservation Leader. And it selected Heyday Farm managers Craig and Alice Skipton for the 2013…
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New Frog Hopper Bus Will Take You and Visitors to Key Bainbridge Destinations
Posted on 03 June 2013.
It makes sense, since Bainbridge Islanders have this thing about frogs, that the new Chamber of Commerce tourism bus system is called the Frog Hopper Bus. The name also makes sense since riders can hop on and off the buses at favorite visitor destinations including Rolling Bay, the Bloedel Reserve, Coppertop Loop, Lynwood, and Pritchard…
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Update: Where on the Island #6—Women Men, Window, Shadow (+ Bench & Hydrant)
Posted on 03 June 2013.
[The original version of this article was published May 27 at 6 a.m.] Update Lately there have been several unidentified photos in our feature Where on the Island. On May 27, Molly O’Hara solved all of the outstanding mysteries, as well as the new challenges: “The old bench is under the ferry terminal where bikes…
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Two BHS Seniors Awarded Ovation! College Scholarships
Posted on 02 June 2013.
Bainbridge Island High School seniors Lea Fetterman and Clara Hayes are the 2013 winners of the Ovation! Musical Theatre Bainbridge college scholarships. Board member Dr. Greg Keyes will formally present The Ovation! Scholarship Awards to Fetterman and Hayes at the Bainbridge High School Senior Awards Night event on June 6. Tom Burt, Ovation! Board President, said about the recipients, both of…
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Symphony Winds up Its Season and Celebrates 40 This Weekend with Special Program
Posted on 31 May 2013.
This weekend’s (May 31-June 2) two Bainbridge Symphony Orchestra performances are the last of the season, and they commemorate BSO’s 40th anniversary with a varied program including the world premiere of Left Brain, Right Brain, which was commissioned from composer Brett Kroening, and performance by violinist Marianne Martinoli, winner of the BSO’s 2013 Young Artist Competition. Kroening’s…
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BHS Teacher Brad Lewis Wins National Travel Award
Posted on 30 May 2013.
Bainbridge High School AP statistics teacher Bradley Lewis has won a prestigious travel and teaching grant to study in Africa. From thousands of applicants across the country, Lewis has been selected as one of 15 winners through the inaugural Hilton HHonors Teacher Treks Travel Grant Competition. The grants are meant to enhance classroom environments by giving instructors…
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Summer Januaries Return to NW, at Farmer’s Market This Saturday
Posted on 30 May 2013.
The Summer Januaries sounds like what we like to call June around here, but it’s actually the name of the Seattle-based and unquestionably adorable fiddle-guitar duo Sean Michael Robinson and Rachel Erin Sage. They’ve been on tour for nine months but are now back in the Northwest, and their first back-home show will be on Bainbridge,…
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Bainbridge Connections Abound in Wicked Web Comedy “Wrecked”
Posted on 26 May 2013.
If you haven’t seen Wrecked yet, check it out. But be sure to watch when the kids aren’t around unless you are up for fielding some extremely awkward vocabulary questions. Wrecked is a wicked, funny, and potty-mouthed award-winning web series, now airing its second season. It was created and filmed locally by recent BHS grads…
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Find out About STEM from the Pros at Science Night Book Fair
Posted on 26 May 2013.
Save the date: Wednesday, May 29, from 5-7 p.m., local STEM professionals are gathering at Eagle Harbor Book Company to speak about Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math and share their favorite books. EHBC will donate to the Bainbridge Public Library 20 percent of all sales made between 5 and 7 that evening, and you might…
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Waypoint Project Wins 2013 State Municipal Excellence Award
Posted on 24 May 2013.
Bainbridge Island’s Waypoint Project, which transformed our Island gateway to the peninsula from a pile of rubble into a richly landscaped and artfully designed park-walkway, has won the Municipal Excellence Award for Building Partnerships. The annual award is given by the Association of Washington Cities (AWC) for an exemplary collaborative city building project in the state. AWC…
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Where on the Island? #6—Bench and Bench, and Orange Hydrant HINT
Posted on 20 May 2013.
Here are two very different benches in two very different places on Bainbridge Island. Do you know where? Be the first to accurately identify the locations of the benches and show your neighbors how well you know your Island ‘hood. Contact us here in the comment section, at contact@insidebainbridge.com, or on our Facebook page. FYI, no one has…
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Frog Invasion Jump Starts Community Art Project
Posted on 19 May 2013.
Thirty-six large white fiberglass frogs arrived by truck from Nebraska this week to launch the Bainbridge Island Downtown Association’s (BIDA) Frogs on the Rock project. Artists and sponsors gathered Saturday, May 18, at the Winslow Farmers’ Market to claim their frogs. Each artist has until July 3 to adorn a frog as part of the…
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