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Here are the ten most-read stories Inside Bainbridge published in April, 2013, in descending order. Part 2: Steve Markwell and His Death-Row Dogs in Crisis—Are They Worth Saving? The Man Who Dares to Love the “Better-off-Dead” Dogs Expands Their Territory Monday’s Bainbridge Earthquake Part of Recent Jump in Puget Sound Seismic Activity Bainbridge “Boston” Bomb…

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Voting is closed. Look for the results in May. _____________________________________ If you haven’t taken seven minutes to vote for your 60 Island favorites, time is short, so step up and speak your mind. Based on last year’s counts, some categories can be so close a few votes can sway an outcome, so tell us who you…

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Here are the ten most-read stories Inside Bainbridge published in March, 2013, in descending order. Life-Threatening Crash at Agate Pass Closes Bridge for Hours Six Critically Ill Poisoned Bald Eagles Treated at West Sound Wildlife Shelter More Than 150 Shoreline Owners March on City Hall in Protest, Confront Council One of Winslow’s Final Forest Ecosystems…

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I have the coolest job in the world. Well, maybe the coolest job on Bainbridge? On a whim, I answered a query on Facebook posted by Inside Bainbridge. I was sitting beside a lake in Maine pondering my upcoming school year when a little post showed up asking if anyone was interested in joining the…

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Oh yeah, we know you’ve got opinions aplenty. Express yourself! Choose your favorite places, businesses, and service providers on the Rock. The Inside Bainbridge Best of the Island ibbi Awards will be conferred upon your communal first choices. Each winner will receive a swell sign, an award icon for their website, the pride and prestige of being…

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Here are the 10 most-read stories Inside Bainbridge published in the month of February, in descending order: Accident Report and “Free Whiskey” Police Incident from the 2013 Chilly Hilly Chilly Hilly 2013 Photo Gallery PAWS Director Gives Passionate Testimony for Spay/Neuter Bill; Senator Brought to Tears Yard Art of the Week: Chilly Hilly Cautionaries One Billion to…

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Yep, we’re back with more weird, funny, and surprising search terms that have led readers, whether they like it or not, to Inside Bainbridge. Although we can connect the dots to most of the articles that bring people’s searches to our website, the search terms often still amuse, puzzle, and even at times annoy us….

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We enjoy giving members of our community good press when we can. But this week here at Inside Bainbridge we’re getting some good press of our own in the respected national media trade magazine Adweek. In their January 8 front page article about hyperlocal news websites, written by Janet Stilson, Inside Bainbridge shined as an…

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6:49 a.m. Looking back, it’s been a busy year, with many shades of gray and plenty of color shining through. For Bainbridge Islanders and their neighbors, the year 2012 was full of triumphs and tragedies, losses and survival, deaths and births, accidents and wild weather, heroism and bad behavior, endings and new beginnings, creative ventures,…

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January 1, 2013, 11:50 a.m. Happy New Year! You asked for it. And asked. And here it is. And it’s free. Yes, free. So get happy and download our new IB mobile app for iPhone, iPad, Android, and Windows phones to make reading Inside Bainbridge all the better from your mobile device wherever you are—near…

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Updated December 31, 2012 3 p.m. Oops! The stories listed previously were for the last week of December. Here are the actual 25 most-read stories we published in entire month of December (an eventful time indeed), in descending order: How a Gun in the House Killed My First Friends on Bainbridge Island Bainbridge Midwife Shares…

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December 1, 2012, 10:07 a.m. Here are the 25 most-read stories we published in November, in descending order: Protesters Target Home of Bainbridge Man Accused of Making Millions at Expense of the Disabled More City Upheaval: BI Attorney Resigns, Police Commander Put on Leave Downtown Association Head Tells Her Story of Being in Need on…

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7:50 a.m. We thought it would be more interesting to expand our monthly list of top stories. Here are our 25 most-read articles from October, in descending order: James Olsen’s Campaign “Hits the Skids” on Highway 305 Well-Known Bainbridge Child Caregiver Loses Partner in Boating Accident: How You Can Help “The Dirty Bainbridge” and Our…

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4:18 p.m. Stocked up on supplies for the annual November power outage (knock on wood)? Ate fatty foods to “prepare” for winter? Built fires? Complained about the weather? Mopped the floor? Ate Halloween candy? Maybe. I don’t actually know the statistics on those behaviors. But I do know that Bainbridge Islanders read Inside Bainbridge 154%…

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11 a.m. Hello from Inside Bainbridge. We usually write about you. This article is about us (but circles around ultimately back to you). Now’s your chance to click away if you don’t give a damn. But we’re betting you do. Some of you know what a hometown operation Inside Bainbridge is. Others of you address…

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5:18 p.m. Behind the scenes here at Inside Bainbridge we keep an eye on a lot of things. Sometimes your interest or lack thereof in particular articles surprises us when we look at our metrics. But another often surprising thing we get to see is what search terms readers use that lead to our website….

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4 a.m. Here are the ten most-read stories Inside Bainbridge published in September: Daughter’s Brush with Texting Driver Spurs Dad to Create Lifesaving App Mother of Bainbridge Teen Killed in Tolo Crash Talks About Her Life and New Book Kitsap’s K-9 Unit Retires Top Dog Ajax Early Due to Injuries on Duty Wildlife Watch: Unusual…

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8:50 a.m. Here are the ten most-read stories Inside Bainbridge published in August: Animal Tales: The Cat Who Spent 8 Years in Jail Got Rats? Population Explosion on Bainbridge Man Wanted by Police Falls Over 100-Foot Embankment, Is Caught by Blackberries Wildlife Watch: Rescued Rare Baby Merlin Accident Survivor Jackson Stewart One Year Later Bainbridge…

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7:28 p.m. Sometimes at Inside Bainbridge we have to make little adjustments to keep things running smoothly or to add cool new features. But the result of our work can be that our site ends up looking wonky on your browsing device (smart phone, iPad, computer, cave wall). If we’ve made the fixes on our…

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