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Student Conservation Corps hiring for Summer 2025

March 27th, 2025|Categories: Environment, Jobs, News|

Bainbridge Island high schoolers: Bainbridge Metro Parks’ Student Conservation Corps is hiring for summer 2025.
Positions available include Assistant Leader, Crew, and Peer Mentors! Check out the SCoCo program home page for the most up to date information, follow links to open positions and job descriptions, and […]

Strawberry Hill Bike Park will break ground in April

March 21st, 2025|Categories: Fundraising, News, Parks|

Strawberry Hill Bike Park, the island’s first-ever dedicated bike park, will break ground in April. About $110,000 must be raised to complete bike park (estimated cost $416,000) for a fall 2025 opening, with fundraising by the Bainbridge Island Parks & Trails Foundation.

“This is it – we are at the ‘Send to […]

Nature Counts! Bainbridge Island Environmental Conference, April 13

March 18th, 2025|Categories: Environment, Events, News|Tags: |

Nature Counts!, a preparation for the City Nature Challenge, is the subject of the 2025 Environmental Conference, 1-4 p.m. Sunday, April 13, at IslandWood.  

Register today at https://www.sustainablebainbridge.org/programs/biec/ 

This year’s Environmental Conference is a celebration of community science that […]

Registration open for Trillium Trail Run, May 10

March 10th, 2025|Categories: Events, Fundraising, News, Trails|Tags: , |

Run for the trails! The Trillium Trail Run 10K/5K and Kids Fun Run returns to Bainbridge Island Saturday, May 10, a benefit to acquire, build and maintain new Bainbridge Island trails.  

The Trillium Trail Run is presented by the Bainbridge Island Parks & Trails Foundation.

Early-bird registration for the timed event […]

Foundation, Land Trust launch campaign to preserve Grand Forest East

February 21st, 2025|Categories: Environment, News|Tags: , , |

The Bainbridge Island Land Trust with the support of the Bainbridge Island Parks & Trails Foundation have launched a campaign to raise funds to protect 39 acres at Grand Forest East, allowing purchase by the Bainbridge Island Metro Park & Recreation District.  

The Park District on February 21, 2025, announced its intent […]

Day of Remembrance stewardship at the Exclusion Memorial

February 20th, 2025|Categories: Events, News, Parks|Tags: , , , |

Gratitude for all who turned out for the annual Day of Remembrance volunteer stewardship day at the Japanese American Exclusion Memorial on Feb. 19, in community with our Japanese American neighbors and in support of Bainbridge Island’s monument to civil rights at Pritchard Park. […]

BURT 100 ‘Ultra’ run raises $5K for Bainbridge Island trails

February 14th, 2025|Categories: Feature, News, Trails|Tags: , , |

The drive is, in their own estimation, “peculiar.” How else to describe the urge to run 100 miles on Bainbridge Island trails – nonstop, overnight, and this year in freezing weather – without, say, a bear on your heels?  

It’s a fair question, says Chris Heiden, who co-founded the Bainbridge Ultra Running Team […]

Neighbors celebrate new Arbor Trail

February 10th, 2025|Categories: News, Trails|Tags: , , |

 Trails connect Bainbridge Island parks, schools, neighborhoods, even families.  

When Sandra McIver moved to Bainbridge Island, she and her husband settled at West Port Madison, and her daughters and their families at Agate Point – neighborhoods geographically close, yet historically never linked. So even a quick visit from one household to […]

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