The Vashon Senior Center, facing a $25,000 cut in funding from King County, is hosting its first auction in three years.
The state Department of Health filed charges against Dr. Sjardo Steneker in December, alleging the popular family practice physician had sexual relationships with current and former patients — considered “unprofessional conduct” under state law.
Jeffrey Parrish was clear about why he joined dozens of other Islanders on a chilly winter morning last week to…
Two members of the Vashon-Maury Island Community Council’s nine-member board — Allison Shirk and Ian Burke — have just resigned,…
Two divers who explored the submerged floor of inner Quartermaster Harbor last week were pleased with what they found — flat, featureless muck. Or as ecologist Brian Allen put it, “A whole lot of nothing.”
Two businessmen have purchased and begun prepping a 45-acre property on Vashon’s west side for development — a project, they say, that will preserve habitat and build community by setting aside 30 acres as commonly owned forestland.
As the sun hung low on the horizon, a small Boston Whaler plied the waters of Quartermaster Harbor last week, crammed with scientists and students trying to unravel a mystery.
They stopped at regular intervals along the way, dropping instruments overboard that measured the water’s salinity, its temperature, its turbidity, the amount of dissolved oxygen and its nutrient load. Used to the routine, they bantered easily among themselves, including many cracks about the pizza they hoped to eat that night, after they got in out of the winter chill.
But their quest was serious. Research five years ago showed that Quartermaster Harbor hosts the highest concentration in all of Puget Sound of an alga that causes paralytic shellfish poisoning. Cheryl Greengrove, a physical oceanographer and professor at the University of Washington Tacoma, is determined to find out why.
A spate of vandalism has hit at least two of Vashon’s parks in recent months, troubling those who steward the…
Trace Bundy, an up-and-coming guitarist who has won over audiences with his complex finger-style playing and sweet renditions of well-known songs, will take to the stage for a one-night benefit concert to support the Vashon Island Rotary Club.
K2 Sports has begun actively marketing its 180,000-square-foot former manufacturing site on Vashon now that a lawsuit over its zoning change from industrial to commercial has ended in K2’s favor.
Ballots for King County’s Feb. 9 election, which were mailed to Vashon voters this week, include a request for a four-year levy to help fund the Island’s three public schools.
The King County Council approved Water District 19’s comprehensive plan last month, but with a caveat: Because of its 14-year moratorium on new water shares, the agency needs to work with the county to explore ways to end the water shortage.
After weeks of discussion with student leaders, Vashon High School Principal Susan Hanson on Monday issued new rules for school-sponsored dances, including a requirement that dance partners leave at least three fingers of space between each other.
