Category: Parks & Recreation

Kick Off Spring with KiDiMu’s FAM JAM on March 25th from 10am–2pm and Adults-Only Mini-Golf Fundraiser from 6pm-9pm

Kick Off Spring with KiDiMu’s FAM JAM on March 25th from 10am–2pm and Adults-Only Mini-Golf Fundraiser from 6pm-9pm

Join KiDiMu and their community partners for FAM JAM 2023 – a fun street fair style family-focused event to kick off spring! Kids, grab your adults and head down to the museum for a day of activities, great music, street …

Environmental Conference looks at climate change on “Our Unruly Island Home,” March 25th at Bainbridge High School

Environmental Conference looks at climate change on “Our Unruly Island Home,” March 25th at Bainbridge High School

Keynote speaker is Madeline Ostrander, journalist and author of “At Home on an Unruly Planet” 

Seattle science journalist and author Madeline Ostrander will be the keynote speaker at the 2023 Bainbridge Island Environmental Conference, “Our Island Home on an Unruly …

Puget Sound to Pacific Collaborative envisions 200-mile multi-use trail

Puget Sound to Pacific Collaborative envisions 200-mile multi-use trail

The new Puget Sound to Pacific Collaborative is bringing communities together to plan and build a 200-mile multi-use trail from the ferry docks on Bainbridge Island, Kingston and Port Townsend to the Pacific Coast at La Push.

The PS2P Collaborative…

Poet and Washington Book Award Winner to Speak at Japanese Remembrance Event – This Saturday!

Poet and Washington Book Award Winner to Speak at Japanese Remembrance Event – This Saturday!

Michele Bombardier, the island’s first ever Poet Laureate, is quickly bringing poetry to life on Bainbridge Island. “I’m having a blast,” she says, gushing with enthusiasm. “Two things I love: my hometown and poetry.”

Bombardier has pulled off a …

BI Senior Center Looking at Options for a Major Expansion of its Facility

BI Senior Center Looking at Options for a Major Expansion of its Facility

The Bainbridge Island Senior Community Center (https://biseniorcenter.org/) has occupied the same basic footprint at 370 Brien Dr. S.E., – just above Waterfront Park – going on four decades now.

Members have come and gone, executive directors have come …

If you can get there, Hawaii is a fun Escape from PNW Winter Blues

If you can get there, Hawaii is a fun Escape from PNW Winter Blues

Want to get away? This time of the year, Bainbridge Islanders are known to escape the gloom, doom and frigid weather of Mid-Winter and seek warmer climes elsewhere.

If you have the inclination, the means and the time – and …

It’s Chilly Hilly Time – Kick off the 2023 cycling season PNW style!

It’s Chilly Hilly Time – Kick off the 2023 cycling season PNW style!

For many Bainbridge Islanders and Pacific Northwesterners, cycling isn’t just a wonderful way to exercise and enjoy our beautiful PNW scenery, it’s a way of life and an environmentally friendly source of transportation—regardless of the weather or your cycling ability.…

Make January 16th a “day on not a day off” and join Bainbridge Island Metro Parks & Recreation District for their annual Martin Luther King Jr Day of Service at Blakely Harbor Park

Make January 16th a “day on not a day off” and join Bainbridge Island Metro Parks & Recreation District for their annual Martin Luther King Jr Day of Service at Blakely Harbor Park

After a three-year pandemic hiatus BI Parks and its partners, including Blakely Harbor Park’s neighbor IslandWood, Sustainable Bainbridge and the BI Parks and Trails Foundation, are back hosting the annual Martin Luther King Jr Day of Service.…

Join Bainbridge Island Metro Parks & Recreation District Work Parties in 2023

Join Bainbridge Island Metro Parks & Recreation District Work Parties in 2023

Bainbridge Island Metro Parks & Recreation District 2023 Work Party Schedule

BI Parks 2022 volunteers accomplished so much!  Join them this year to accomplish even more!

More than 800 volunteers worked with the Natural Resources team at Bainbridge Island Metro …

From the Emerald City to the Emerald Isle – Ireland is worth a visit, even in the wintertime!

From the Emerald City to the Emerald Isle – Ireland is worth a visit, even in the wintertime!

Ireland is a fascinating place and I have some deep family connections there, which made a recent visit across the pond that much more rewarding.  My father was born and raised in Dublin and immigrated to the US in his …

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