Did he say “very highly leveraged”?

When COBI Finance Director Elray Konkel—one of the City’s straightest shooters– speaks, I listen up. I even watched a re-play of some of Wednesday night’s lengthy Council meeting on BITV, to make sure I heard correctly. Sure enough, at that meeting, Konkel introduced the City’s Capital Facilities Plan with some blunt talk, noting that 30% [...]

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BHS sign taken into protective custody

Will BHS’s new lockdown look have any impact on the students? Will there be an effort to enhance the aesthetic inside the building, to compensate for the barricades? I hope the district’s Construction News website will be updated (last entry 5/21) to let us know how the high school will function, and how students will [...]

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Eagle Harbor Marina hearing tonight

Tonight at 6:30 pm at City hall is the public hearing on an authorizing ordinance for an Open Water Marina in Eagle Harbor. Community Housing Coalition director Kat Gjovik posted an excerpt from a letter in support of the marina on Green Voices for Bainbridge, in which she wrote, “As advocates for diverse, affordable housing [...]

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Intellect eclipsed

Going…. going… Gone (almost). We drove to Manitou Beach under the full moon around 2 AM, so tired I shouldn’t have been behind the wheel. But I woke up as we watched the moon redden into eclipse, awed by its beauty and darkness. The physical science is fascinating. The NASA website, for instance, says that a lunar [...]

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Out of many, one

From Bainbridgebuzz.com, 4 July, 2006   This Independence Day, I can say without blushing that I believe America is an extraordinary place of opportunity and freedom. The promise of this country is as much a state of mind as it is a system of government, and it is unique in all of history.   But [...]

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From the cold country of our son’s illness

From Bainbridgebuzz.com, Monday, 10 July 2006 I thought I might send emails and notes from our family’s trip to England later this month, to post on the hometown Buzz. But it seems we’ve left earlier than planned, and to a place farther from home. We’ve slipped through a door next to the telephone, and now [...]

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Arson and the Island’s own war on terror

From Bainbridgebuzz.com Monday, 17 July 2006 I don’t know whether to laugh, cry, or call my lawyer. A year and a half ago I was your average Bainbridge mom, dealing with kids, volunteering in the community, and doing some free lance writing.This month I was interviewed by a federal ATF agent about the arson fire [...]

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Women’s rowing: An exercise in balance

From Bainbridgebuzz.com, Monday, 14 February 2005 It’s dawn in Eagle Harbor. The morning light is pink and tender, and mist rises from the water. The manic tick tick tick of a lone Kingfisher breaks the stillness, and then a woman’s voice calls, “Bow seat, give me a couple strokes.” There is a clunk of oar [...]

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