As Carolyn Buehl began to pack up her classroom at Chautauqua Elementary School last week, organizing art supplies and wrapping delicate monkey masks to send home with students, she pulled out an old photo album. Inside the album was photo after photo of colorful student art, many of it held by grinning young artists.
Loren Sinner can locate that 1×4 tongue-and-groove a customer wants in a matter of minutes, but he might have to move stacks of wood to extract it from the piles of cedar in his small, bustling lumberyard.
An osprey nest perched on top of a 165-foot microwave tower burst into flames Tuesday night, creating an inferno that killed two chicks and completely destroyed the long-standing nest.
Around 100 people gathered to take a tour of the famed Mukai Farmhouse Monday night, only to be greeted by a hastily erected cyclone fence that barred them from entering the property.
Around 30 waterfront homeowners could face fines of up to $25 a day if they don’t get their septic systems inspected by July 1, according to King County officials.
A recycling drive hosted by a small contingent of Islanders last week brought in nearly $5,000 to cover the costs of a dental van that provides oral health care to low-income children.
The King County agency that issues building permits has raised several questions about the scale of Vashon Allied Arts’ proposed performing arts center, suggesting the building may be taller than code allows and the amount of parking VAA has proposed is inadequate.
A new board of directors comprised entirely of Islanders has taken over the organization that owns the Mukai farmhouse and garden, considered one of the most historically significant Japanese-American properties in the country.
K2 Commons, a proposed development that would turn the former ski manufacturing plant into a center with a swimming pool, bowling alley, restaurant and hotel, is in the process of becoming a nonprofit helmed by a board of well-known Islanders.
Vashon’s emergency preparedness experts learned Wednesday what they weren’t sure of before: Should the ferry system go down in an earthquake, King County’s water taxi could be called into service, picking up critically injured people from key Island locations.
More than a dozen University of Washington students presented their visions for a revitalized Vashon Friday night, offering up proposals to restore historic structures, spruce up the town and provide visitors with a road map to the Island.
Common Thread is a kaleidoscope of color. Silk scarves — in pinks, purples and oranges — hang on the wall. Felted animals, whimsical in their ornate dresses, shoes and hats, adorn a pedestal. Women’s clothes, some made from recycled fabrics, sport ribbons and polka-dots, bees and flowers.
King County officials have given Islanders an additional 13 days to comment on Vashon Allied Arts’ proposal to build a 20,000-square-foot performance center adjacent to the Blue Heron at Center.
