''The Bainbridge Island Review'' is a Friday

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in the U.S. state of

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. The ''Review'' is primarily focused on Bainbridge Island and its communities; the island population is 22,000.

Ownership history

The ''Review'' was owned by Walter Woodward, along with the ''North Kitsap News'', from about 1940 to 1962, when former ''

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'' editor David Averill purchased them both. Woodward was to remain as editor of the ''Review''; the ''News'' was to be discontinued. Verda Averill sold the ''Herald'' and the ''Review'', as well as the ''Kitsap Advertiser'', to the

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in 1988; at the time, Black owned seven U.S. papers and 24 Canadian papers.

The Woodwards and Japanese internment

In 1942, Bainbridge islanders of Japanese ancestry were the first in the United States to be relocated to

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s. The ''Review'' was the only English-language newspaper on the West Coast to openly criticize President

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. Milly and Walt Woodward, the owners and editors of the ''Review'', since about 1940, continued advocating for members of the community who were interned, and hired several as correspondents. These correspondents reported on camp events for publication in the ''Review''. A Bainbridge Island school,

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is named in honor of Milly Woodward.

References

External links

''Bainbridge Island Review''

Kitsap History, ''Bainbridge Review'', 1941-1946
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bainbridge Island Review, The Bainbridge Island, Washington

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