A proposal to build a $3.4 billion methanol production plant at the Port of Tacoma is no more after the company backing the project announced that it terminated its lease at the port.
The Vashon school district’s technology and facilities levy passed with more than 70 percent of island voters in favor of the measure, according to King County Elections preliminary results.
The parents of two Vashon students are suing the Vashon Island School District, superintendent and multiple administrators on behalf of their children, alleging administrators failed to address and stop daily harassment and discrimination.
Visitors to VALISE Gallery’s website last week may have been greeted with something quite different than expected, and gallery members are urging the public to use the gallery’s new site: valisegallery.com.
After a $176,000 month-long remodel fully funded by a federal grant, Vashon’s senior center is open and will hold a grand re-opening ceremony on Friday.
Vashon’s fire chief has recommended that the current proposal to combine Vashon’s paramedics with those of south King County be taken back to the drawing board.
In the latest development in Vashon’s recent business shuffle, the owners of Hinge Gallery have bought the red house that has been home to Giraffe at the north end of town. The gallery, gift shop and frame shop will move in next month.
The third and final phase of the construction project to seismically upgrade Vashon’s north-end dock will begin Monday, and ferry system officials say it could cause delays.
The company proposing to build a $3.4 billion methanol production plant at the Port of Tacoma announced Tuesday morning that it was “ending development options” and terminating its lease at the port, effectively cancelling the project.
In spring I’m reminded of Theodore Roethke’s poem about slugs. He calls them “a fat, five-inch appendage /Creeping slowly over the wet grass/ Eating the heart out of my garden.”
Two island schools recently held auctions to raise money for the continued education of young islanders and together raised nearly $200,000.
Vashon’s school board last Wednesday met to discuss plans for a second bond attempt and decided to meet with a consultant in an effort to price out a variety of bond options.
Cherry blossoms are symbols of the spring, a time of renewal and new beginnings. Just as the pink and white blossoms began to burst forth this year, a new beginning was in store for the island’s historic Mukai property and the local group that has been fighting to take control of it.
