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There was a time and place on Bainbridge Island when most new residential development was of the single-family home variety. Think North Town Woods, Hidden Cove Estates, North Hill, Commodore West and Lynwood Center.
But those days are gone. Over …
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Creating long-term plans on paper and then turning them into real world solutions is no easy task.
That’s one reason why the City of Bainbridge Island will soon begin work with a transportation consulting firm, Fehr & Peers, to help …
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Solving Bainbridge’s traffic flow challenges has become a bit of a thorny issue over the past decade, as the island’s population has crept up and commuters and locals find themselves competing for use of the city’s main arterials to drive
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Pollen – that yellow, brown, greenish sticky powdery stuff – seems to be everywhere this spring. We’ve noticed it on car windshields and hoods, patios, sidewalks, roofs, oil tanks, garbage receptacles, golf bags, parking lots, and just about anything that’s …
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In the past, the City of Bainbridge Island has been accused of favoring outside contractors to perform large city-funded projects. Not this time around.
At at its regular business meeting on April 12, the City Council authorized City Manager Blair …
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Baseball used to be America’s past time, but those days of yesteryear when shouts of “play ball” could be heard resonating throughout the land at Major League parks, Little League fields or neighborhood sand lots are well behind us. One …
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The Island Village Shopping Center on High School Road, home to Safeway, Rite Aid, Starbucks, First Federal, and many other retailers, was sold recently to a Jacksonville, Fla.-based company. Regency Centers Corp. purchased the 106,000 square foot center from Seattle’s
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If you’ve driven “off island” on Highway 305 between Bainbridge and Poulsbo in the last year or so, you’ve no doubt encountered the road work being done at the intersection of Johnson Road and our beloved state highway.
The new …
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Back in October* and December* of 2021, my co-blogger Kevin Dwyer wrote about the City of Bainbridge Island’s new ordinance that would require businesses to reduce plastic and single-use food service products. The first part of that ordinance went …
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After years of wrangling, the Bainbridge Island City Council finally gave its nod of approval recently on a motion authorizing City Manager Blair King to proceed with advertisement bids for the former Harrison Hospital Medical Clinic site – at 8804 …
