Kevin Allman, owner of the Vashon Athletic Club, has added nearly $100,000 of new cardiovascular and weight equipment to the small fitness center, his largest investment in the club since he purchased it eight years ago.
In what organizers see as a race against time, two Vashon groups are looking for publicly owned sites for their ambitious community solar projects — efforts triggered in part by generous state incentives slated to end in 2020.
Last winter, Vashon farmer Joe Yarkin sold $40 of sunchokes to the Vashon Island School District, the beginning, many thought, of a farm-to-school program that would build on the district’s popular makeover of its lunch program.
This winter, when the pond at Singer Farm tops its banks, the excess water will cascade over a sinuous trail of boulders and rocks, passing by native shrubs and trees before spilling into Judd Creek some 50 yards away.
Water District 19’s three commissioners unanimously approved a policy last week allowing homeowners to develop small rental units on their property without having to obtain an additional water hook-up.
Eleven children at Chautauqua Elementary School and McMurray Middle School received free dental care last week, thanks to a grass-roots effort to bring a dental van operated by Medical Teams International to Vashon.
With the latest tallies showing Candy McCullough’s lead holding steady in a race for a seat on Vashon’s fire commission, Joe Ulatoski, her challenger, said he called her on Wednesday “and congratulated her on her victory.”
King County hopes to undertake its largest thinning operation to date at Island Center Forest, removing dying alders and tightly packed Douglas firs in an area comprising nearly 100 acres of the popular woodland.
Books by the Way has had many incarnations over the years, opening first in the Old Fuller Store at Center and then moving into town, where it claimed at least four locations.
When Seattle activist Eliaichi Kimaro first approached Vashon film editor Eric Frith about the documentary she hoped to make, she had in mind a fairly straightforward biographical story — one that explored Tanzania, her father’s tribal culture and the role of the World Bank in Africa.
State officials will hold a public hearing next week to discuss plans to clean up residential yards that test high in arsenic and lead in the most contaminated parts of the Arsarco smelter plume — a swath that includes all of Maury and southern Vashon Island.
A King County Superior Court judge issued a preliminary injunction Tuesday supporting the Vashon Park District’s claim that the Rosser family doesn’t own the road that leads to their home, according to David Hackett, a park district commissioner who attended the hearing.
Halloween is always a delight on Vashon, when the town closes off to traffic, merchants hand out treats and Islanders display their make-up skills. Monday’s affair — as a golden afternoon gave way to a crisp evening — was as sweet as ever.
