Now that’s scary…

Dark mutterings afield today, about broken curses, brooms and sweeps, magic, miracles….and now this pumpkin on a deserted Bainbridge road. Very supernatural. Don’t be frightened this Hallowe’en. Mmwa-ha-ha-ha!

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Darling, I’m a bastard!

Now you know the line Hollywood censored in the 1941 Frank Capra classic, Arsenic and Old Lace. But theatregoers will hear that tongue-in-cheek shocker and many more in the BHS Theatre production of Arsenic and Old Lace opening this Friday, November 2. The play, written in 1939 by Joseph Kesselring, is a dark comedy about a [...]

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Kathe Fraga is back

Former Buzz fans, rejoice. Kathe Fraga, one of the Buzz’s most popular writers, has started a blog for the Seattle P-I, Notes from an Island.  Kathe’s essays capture the art-lover’s side of island life with all its quirks, foibles and charms. An artist, mom and in-the-know Winslow retailer (she owns Gallery Fraga with husband Jeff), Kathe writes about childhood reminiscences, gallery [...]

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Pass the hat for another island treasure

Updated: As if there’s not enough on our civic must-support list, the Bloedel Reserve is coming up short to the tune of $200,000 a year, according to a Puget Sound Business Journal story posted last week. This 150-acre nature reserve, formerly the home of Prentice and Virginia Bloedel, has soothed many a Bainbridge soul with [...]

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Backup for campus po

Tucked into the City’s draft budget for 2008 is a new police department hire, a “Student Resource Officer” for Bainbridge High School. A part-time SRO was rotated among several Bainbridge schools from 2002-2005 (the position was cut in 2006 due to lack of funding). This time around, a full-time officer would be assigned to the high school. The cost, including [...]

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Council ignores legal advice–again

Outgoing City Council member Nezam Tooloee once again ignored the advice of the City’s attorneys last night, spearheading a 4-3 decision against asking the Washington Supreme Court to reconsider its award of attorney fees to the plaintiffs in the shoreline moratorium case. At another recent Council meeting,  Tooloee convinced the Council to add a declaration to Pritchard Park and Strawberry Plant [...]

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Schools chief Crawford to retire, Chapel will step up

This just in from the Bainbridge Public Schools: On Tuesday, October 23, Bainbridge Island School District Superintendent Dr. Ken Crawford announced to staff his plan to retire. In tandem with Dr. Crawford’s plans for retirement, the School Board announced Tuesday that Deputy Superintendent Faith Chapel has agreed to assume leadership of the district as the new [...]

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Bainbridge moon

The why of Bainbridge: step outside your back door and watch the corona-wrapped moon pass through the woods. This island, with its endangered darkness, unpaved lanes, remnant forests, coyote howls, is one of the vanishing places that make it possible to believe the natural world still waits for us to learn to read its meaning.

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And the responsive government gold star goes to…

…the Open Government Ombudsman in the state Attorney General’s office. Here’s one government office that does what it claims to do. Attorney General Rob McKenna has made open government a priority and it shows. Tim Ford, the current ombudsman, promptly sent me his legal analysis when I asked for help recently, after the Bainbridge Police [...]

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The Review has forgotten the community

As the newspaper of record on Bainbridge Island, the Bainbridge Review has enjoyed a monopoly power that it has done much to cultivate and preserve. The Kitsap Sun, which is the better paper overall, hasn’t been able to come up with a credible island alternative, because–in my opinion–its editors can’t quite find the pulse of this community and [...]

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