The state Legislature, in a move that will help Vashon’s cash-strapped school district, has agreed to lift school districts’ so-called…
ConocoPhillips has agreed to pay $588,000 to restore three ecologically important areas on Maury Island as part of a proposed settlement over an oil spill in Dalco Passage in 2004 that fouled hundreds of acres of shoreline, closed parks and harmed wildlife.
The Vashon Island School District has selected an architectural firm with ties to the Island to begin preliminary designs of a far-reaching makeover of Vashon High School.
Nearly 40 Islanders took to the trails Sunday in a quiet show of respect for a man who made his mark on Vashon as a stalwart equestrian and generous supporter of Vashon’s tightknit horse community.
Just as jury selection was set to begin, former Islander Jon Kunkel on Wednesday pleaded guilty to second-degree murder for the slaying of Ron Childers nearly three years ago.
Administrators with the King County Library System, gearing up for an ambitious remodel of Vashon’s small branch library, say they’ve already learned much about the Island’s reading habits.
A stretch of Vashon Highway just south of Burton will be closed for a month starting next week so that King County road crews can replace eight aging culverts, county officials announced Friday.
Cathy Fulton’s kitchen table looks out over a front yard that’s been given over to food raising. Chickens roam among fruit trees and vegetable beds. Leeks poke out of the ground, and kale is ready for harvest, not far from a greenhouse sheltering seed starts.
One of Annie Miksch’s sheep at her Dilworth Loop farm was euthanized after a dog slipped into her barn and attacked it earlier this month, raising concerns among Miksch and her neighbors about the safety of other livestock in their north-end neighborhood.
Vashon’s homeowners saw a nearly 14 percent increase in their 2010 tax bills, even as property values dropped on average nearly 8 percent, according to King County Assessor Lloyd Hara.
No decisions have been made about the future of a stretch of Dockton Road that hugs Tramp Harbor, and King County officials are continuing to explore all of its options, the county’s roads division chief said.
Most Islanders know the house well — a beige-colored split-level on 87th Ave. S.W., where a man was gunned down on an otherwise quiet August evening two-and-a-half years ago.
Vashon Island School District’s four-year operating levy appears to be passing easily, according to partial returns from the Feb. 9 mail-in election.