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Poll: What was the top Bainbridge story of 2010?

We recently polled readers and ourselves here in the newsroom about Kitsap County’s top news stories of the year.

You can read the results here, and weigh in on the reader poll at the bottom of the page.

Seeing as how the poll offerings are slanted toward Bremerton (a fish statue is a top story?), and that most Bainbridge Islanders have never heard of Bremerton, I have created Bainbridge Island’s very own top stories of 2010 poll.

Head over to the right side of the screen to weigh in.

And have a happy New Year.

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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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Prototype ferry still causing too much wake on island beaches

Kitsap Transit is going back to the drawing board to produce a ferry that both gives Bremertonians a 30-minute link to Seattle and satisfies Bainbridge Islanders who sued over the wake earlier fast ferries were kicking up.

Read Kitsap Sun transportation reporter Ed Friedrich’s story below.

Research Passenger Ferry to Be Scaled Back for Wake’s Sake
By Ed Friedrich

Kitsap Transit is reducing the size and speed of a prototype passenger ferry because computer modeling showed that the boat would create too much wake.

With all of the time and money spent developing a vessel that won’t harm Rich Passage beaches, wake performance can’t be compromised.

“First and foremost, the goal is to keep the faith of the program — getting a boat that goes through there without any damage,” said Kitsap Transit Executive Director Dick Hayes.

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