Daily Archives: January 20, 2009

Freedom is a burning tree

The story last week about a lawsuit to prevent a property owner from chopping down three historic trees really touched a nerve with some readers. Among the more colorful comments on the story’s online version was this one from “hs191962”:

I for one am sick of people telling me what I should or can and cannot do with my land. I am going to go cut down a 150 year old tree tommorow because I own the dam thing so kiss my behind tree huggers. If you want to find me follow the smoke from burnig limbs by the Southworth ferry.

The post ends with one word. All caps.

FREEDOM

So, if you south-end islanders happen see a toppled old tree in flames down around Southworth, you’ll know what freedom really looks like.

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Rolfes wants to allow out-of-state bids for ferry projects

Rep. Christine Rolfes wants to remove a state rule that limits ferry construction bids to Washington shipbuilders.

The Bainbridge Democrat believes allowing greater competition will lower the cost for the state ferry system and make ferry projects eligible for federal dollars.

Seattle’s Todd Shipyards was the only shipbuilder to bid on the ferry system’s last two projects. Both jobs came in over-budget.

Rolfes’ proposal is one of her bolder and potentially divisive moves since first taking office in 2007.

Read more in Ed Friedrich’s story, here.

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TV in the newspaper

The Kitsap Sun is arming its photographers and reporters with cameras these days. That’s old news for folks that live on the mighty mainland, where everything from windy weather to school board meetings have been captured by Sun videographers. Lately, though, Sun photographer Carolyn Yaschur has made treks across Agate Pass with her camcorder in hand.

Here’s Carolyn’s video tour of Bainbridge High School’s new earth-friendly 200 Building:

And here’s a nice little piece on Sunday’s mochi festival:

You can read my stories about the 200 Building here, and my coverage of the mochi festival here.

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Bremerton Island

According to the New York Times, one of the more “simple pleasures” of life on Bainbridge Island is to while away one’s time “watching the ferry to Bremerton Island move stealthily from Seattle, its lights cutting through the fog.”

The Times has, with a recent article, exposed what many locals had thought was only a myth. Shrouded in fog and linked only by ferries that move stealthily, Bremerton Island is a fantastical land where sheet metal welders live in solar-powered McMansions and sailors on shore leave burn up a month’s pay snatching up designer napkin rings and swilling $30 bottles of syrah.

Read the rest of the Times’ take on Bainbridge below, or click here to read it from the source (you may have to register to see the second page).

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