The Review is primarily focused on Bainbridge Island and its surrounding communities.
The Review was owned by Walter Woodward, along with the North Kitsap News, from about 1940 to 1962, when former Albany Democrat-Herald editor David Averill purchased them both.
[5][6][7][8] Woodward and his wife warned about "the danger of a blind, wild hysterical hatred of all persons who can trace ancestry to Japan", the day after the Attack on Pearl Harbor.
[9] Bainbridge islanders of Japanese ancestry were the first in the United States to be relocated to internment camps.
[10] The Woodwards continued advocating for members of the community, and hired several as correspondents.