Some twenty-plus years in the planning stages, the revered and much talked about Lost Valley Trail is inching its way towards reality. The Bainbridge Island City Council recently okayed the Lost Valley Trail project, which is a partnership between the …
This isn’t their first visit to Blakely Harbor Park, in 2018, a large herd was brought in to clear blackberry and other invasive weeds from areas of the park that are now replanted with thriving native vegetation. However, there’s …
JOIN THE CLIMATE SMART CHALLENGE AND YOU COULD WIN A HOME COMPOST BIN!
With the start of the new year comes new Climate Smart goals! In 2022, the City of Bainbridge Island almost met its goal of signing up 250 …
April is Earth Month on Bainbridge Island and we are celebrating with activities and events for all ages for Earth Day and Arbor Day during the entire month of April and beyond. Everyone can take action and join activities to …
Last year I visited the Ritchie Observatory at Battle Point Park and met with Battle Point Astronomical Association’s President, Frank Petrie and Chief Astronomer, Cole Rees to learn about the observatory and the association. It all started back in 1992, …
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 …
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…
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 …
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.…
Back in the day – and I’m talking about the 1960s – skateboarding was just coming into vogue. I remember a cover of Life Magazine from that era with a picture of young guys with long hair traversing Lombard Street …
