Margaret Hetherwick

Kids in Concert, the only free youth music education program in Kitsap County, must find a new home by Aug. 1 or risk closure.

Summer is a big season for the park districts. Warm weather means more parkgoers, more plant growth, and more time for maintenance and volunteering to keep park facilities in tip-top shape.

At the March 12 Bainbridge Island School District board meeting, director of student services Annalisa Sanchez shared a presentation on last year’s efforts to improve the district’s Multi-Tiered System of Support for social and emotional behavior. The program is a catchall term to describe how a school district teaches students about emotional regulation and social connection, through school policies, staff training, intervention plans for students, data collection and district culture.

Kitsap County leadership decided not to proceed with a suite of controversial updates to the zoning code for equestrian facilities March 11, opting instead to expand outreach and collaboration with the Equestrian Working Group to encourage good practices and mediate conflicts between rural residents and horse properties.

The only mobile home co-op on the West Coast — and one of the last vestiges of affordable housing on Bainbridge Island — faces a massive financial crisis as its aging plumbing systems start to give out, sending funding reserves down the drain.

The Bainbridge Review has reached out to the City of Bainbridge Island and city attorney Andrew Tsoming for comment. This story will be updated when responses are received.

Bainbridge Island is slowly but surely closing in on its Comprehensive Plan, as city staff, leaders, and the state government make progress toward a complete and legally certifiable document.

Bainbridge Island may be more abuzz than usual this spring, as a local apiary company plans to release thousands of native bees on the island next week.

Tuition is going up for the Bainbridge Island School District’s preschool, but not by much.

Levies are for learning, and bonds are for building — and the time may have come to begin building at Bainbridge Island schools.