After months of work, several Islanders are about to create a foundation to support Vashon’s public schools, an entity they hope will help to bridge the gap between inadequate public funds and the school district’s ongoing financial needs.
An effort to protect nearly 10 acres adjacent to Whispering Firs Bog gained a boost last week, when a panel…
In a discussion that was at times surreal, at other times charged, 20 Islanders and three King County officials met Monday to explore the direction of Vashon’s community council now that all nine members of its board have resigned.
Vashon Allied Arts has hired a project manager to oversee the development of a new performing arts center, a big step for the organization and a sign of its seriousness in bringing the ambitious project to fruition.
For the last two years, a group of Islanders has gathered nearly every week to take on one of the classic challenges in visual art — capturing the human figure.
King County’s cultural arts agency has asked the state attorney general to dissolve the nonprofit that owns the Mukai farmhouse and its famous garden and transfer the property to another organization that can “properly steward this important cultural resource.”
All nine members of the Vashon-Maury Island Community Council’s board resigned last week in the wake of a King County legal analysis that says the council needs to comply with the state’s far-reaching public records act.
Gone are the days of tater tots and chicken nuggets as the entree du jour at Vashon’s public schools.
Under a plan crafted by Vashon Island School District Superintendent Michael Soltman, the district will serve up only healthful, non-processed foods when the new academic year begins in two weeks.
Those who enter the Vashon Senior Center can do so more easily, now that the Vashon Island Rotary Club has completed a year’s worth of work on the historic brick building on the western edge of Vashon Town.
Gerry Feinstein said she felt a tad nervous last year, when an arts and humanities lecture series she and her husband Mike had organized was about to begin. Would Islanders like it? Would they come?
Eight of the nine members of the Vashon-Maury Island Community Council’s board resigned this week in the wake of a King County legal analysis that the council has to comply with the state’s far-reaching public records act.
The value of Vashon’s residential and commercial properties is 12 percent lower this year compared to last, according to the King County Assessor’s Office.
