The city of Bainbridge Island has been awarded almost $2.6 million from the state Department of Transportation to revitalize the Springbrook Creek fish passage.
Perhaps you’ve noticed the recent influx of visitors to our fair island. Many of them look like they just stepped off a cruise ship. A few of them look like they may have just eaten a cruise ship. In a past professional life, I worked in San Francisco, which is also a mecca for seasonal visitors. Some locals in San Francisco referred to tourists seen in those days wearing leisure suits with white leather shoes as doing a “half-Cleveland.” Tourists wearing both white leather shoes and a white leather belt were said to be doing a “full Cleveland.”
Even though complaints about short-term rentals on Bainbridge Island are few, the City Council decided May 16 at its meeting that it wants to regulate them in some way.