The Bainbridge school district hired a new assistant superintendent and instructional support services director this week.

Peter Bang-Knudsen, who was named the new assistant superintendent, grew up on Bainbridge and graduated from Bainbridge High School.

Read the district’s press release below.

Bainbridge Island School District welcomes two new administrators to continue the support of students and staff sustained by departing personnel.

Peter Bang-Knudsen Jr. was hired as the Assistant Superintendent of Administrative Services, replacing Bruce Colley. Betsy Minor Reid will be the Executive Director, Instructional Support Services, taking over responsibilities from Dr. Clayton Mork.

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The Kitsap Sun has endorsed Rep. Christine Rolfes, a Bainbridge Island resident, for re-election to the state House seat she’s held for almost four years.

Here’s what the Sun had to say about Rolfes and her Republican challengers, James Olsen of Bainbridge and Aaron Winters of Poulsbo:

“Rolfes clearly offers a more reasonable and thoughtful approach to the state’s problems than her challengers, and has been an advocate in maintaining a freeze on ferry fares during her term. Even one vote we take issue with — her endorsement in suspending I-960 last session — still remained in tune with the sentiment of her constituents, who overwhelmingly had opposed the initiative. Her challengers fall back on rhetoric too often, and neither demonstrate the ability to work in the collaborative way that the coming session will likely demand.”

To read more about the Sun’s endorsements for the state Legislature, and to see the Sun’s video interview with Rolfes, Olsen and Winters, head over HERE.

This week, a man punches walls and then crashes into a tree, a middle-age woman chokes her mom, a camper bites her buddy, a man threatens to “gut” his wife’s dad and a hit-and-run suspect explains to police how “goofy things” often follow “a traumatic thing.”

The blotter is below.

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