Vashon PTSA’s annual back-to-school drive raised around $2,000 in a matter of days, enabling the group to purchase dozens of backpacks, calculators and other supplies for families who can’t afford the items, said Jackie Merrill, PTSA’s vice president.
In what organizers said was a first, dozens of classic Thunderbirds and Corvettes rolled together on Vashon on Sunday — bringing together two makes that their manufacturers long considered archrivals.
Islanders Monday night agreed to include in Vashon’s town plan a provision that would encourage King County to make the Island’s urban center a bit more bicycle and pedestrian friendly.
When the Denning kids first moved into the Burton Hotel in 1956, they were certain the second floor of the sprawling place was haunted. They’d hear noises up there — likely mice, they now realize — and refused to climb the stairs.
King County agreed to pay a Vashon couple $125,000 for its failure to provide a document in a long-simmering dispute over the status of the couple’s rustic beach house, an un-permitted, hand-built structure on Vashon’s west side.
Mia Croonquist, the youngest female rower to ever compete with the U.S. national team at the World Rowing Junior Championships, returned from England Monday night to a hero’s welcome — and with a gold medal hanging from her neck.
When Bing Imm Low purchased the small tea shop in the center of town two years ago, she had no background in business and little in the world of tea. But she knew she didn’t want to see the Vashon Tea Shop close, so she stepped forward — coming out of semi-retirement to try to keep the intimate café, a failing business at the time, afloat.
In a move some say could open the door to more development on Vashon, King County will allow homeowners to install systems that harvest a new source for residential drinking water — the stuff that falls from the sky.
Vashon Allied Arts has selected Seattle-based Sellen Construction as its general contractor for the 20,000-square-foot performing arts center it hopes to begin building next spring, the arts organization announced last week.
The tomatoes might be late again this year, and those sweet bell peppers may not ripen at all.
But in these gray, damp days of this unseasonably cool summer, greens — from various kinds of leaf lettuce to obscure species such as chervil and purslane — are thriving.
The Vashon Island School Board will vote on a $15.47 million budget at its meeting Thursday night, a spending plan that restores several teaching positions and other reductions proposed earlier this year.
A Vashon man charged with raping two girls on two separate occasions has been charged with a third crime — the attempted rape of a girl at her home on Vashon in 2006, a high-profile incident that raised alarm throughout the community.
May Chaleoy, who co-founded a popular and highly regarded Thai restaurant in Seattle’s Wallingford neighborhood several years ago, plans to open a similar eatery in Vashon town this fall.
