Bill Thomas was on the street before the sun was up, bundled against the cold and sporting a ball cap that said “60 forever.” He carried a long-handled grabber in one hand, a white plastic trash bag in the other, as he began his daily circuit through town.
The Vashon Park District, struggling to cover the costs of its ambitious fields project, has run out of cash for the remainder of the year and might have to borrow money from King County to cover its final 2011 expenses.
Water District 19’s 15-year moratorium on new water shares will be temporarily lifted next month when the small agency issues 15 shares to those next in line on its lengthy waiting list.
The number of children eligible to receive free lunches at Vashon’s three public schools has doubled in the last three years, according to statistics compiled by the Vashon Island School District.
Mounds of blackberries have been replaced by hundreds of native trees and shrubs along the banks of a small stream near the Westside Highway, thanks to the effort of several children and a little-known program offered by the King Conservation District.
After a media storm that thrust Vashon’s colorfully garbed elves into a regional spotlight, the King County Sheriff’s Office and the Island’s chamber of commerce have worked with the traffic-stopping fundraisers to craft a compromise.
Two goats were killed early Wednesday morning by a pair of dogs that broke into their fenced pasture near the Vashon Golf & Swim Club on Maury Island, according to the owners, John and Sandra Schubert.
Twenty to 25 homeless people living in the woods south of the Roseballen housing development were forcibly removed over the past few weeks after King County officials received an anonymous complaint about the growing encampment.
Facing a state-imposed deadline, King County officials plan to turn up the heat in Vashon’s Marine Recovery Areas, waterfront neighborhoods where failing septic systems are thought to be fouling beaches and polluting Puget Sound.Facing a state-imposed deadline, King County officials plan to turn up the heat in Vashon’s Marine Recovery Areas, waterfront neighborhoods where failing septic systems are thought to be fouling beaches and polluting Puget Sound.
Vashon resident Brian Dublin, convicted in October of raping two teenage girls and attempting to rape a 12-year-old girl, was sentenced Friday afternoon to just under 45 years in prison.
Sekeyian Yiaile was one of the fortunate ones in her tribal village in Kenya — though to hear her story, she hardly sounds lucky.
Every now and then, retired school teacher Carol Ferch will hear from one of her former students that he or she is still birding, a decade or two after learning about Vashon’s native birds as a student in her fourth-grade classroom.
Vashon Island School District’s new substance abuse prevention specialist plans to hold a special meeting with parents next week, in part because of mounting parental concern about the teen party scene on the Island this fall.
