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Vashon veterinarian Dana Ness said she has seen at least three confirmed cases of dogs with leptospirosis this winter, raising…
When state lawmakers assemble in Olympia next week, they’ll likely replay a drama from their last session, when they faced a staggering multi-billion-dollar deficit and slashed programs to balance the budget.
The Vashon Park District’s board is poised to pass a $1.5 million spending plan that maintains the agency’s popular concerts-in-the-park series, enhances its maintenance program and includes money to plan for taking on ownership of the Vashon Pool.
When state lawmakers assemble in Olympia later this month, they’ll likely replay a drama from their last session, when they faced a staggering multi-billion-dollar deficit and slashed programs to balance the budget.
Citing slow sales and a lingering recession, Dig Floral & Garden owners Sylvia Matlock and Ross Johnson are closing Dig-In, their artful, eclectic home furnishings store adjacent to their nursery.
The store’s last day is New Year’s Eve. They opened the shop about four years ago.
In a significant move, the federal government has decided not to appeal a U.S. District Court decision last August that temporarily halted Glacier Northwest’s plans to dramatically increase its mining operations on Maury Island.
With the click of a mouse, Islanders can view sepia-toned photographs of Paradise Cove in the 1920s, when a little girl named Tad made seaweed pies on the beach with her dog Snooks.
Vashon should market itself as an “events and activities-driven getaway,” offering up quilting retreats, adult art camps and Valentines’ packages to draw tourists to the Island in the fall and winter, a report commissioned by the Vashon Chamber of Commerce says.
After nearly seven hours of discussion and debate Monday, the King County Council deadlocked on whom to choose to replace Dow Constantine on the nine-member council.
The Vashon-Maury Island Land Trust has completed the construction of a new trail, a topographically diverse two-mile trek that extends from behind the Vashon Community Care Center and along Shinglemill Creek to the stream’s terminus at Fern Cove.
The Vashon Chamber of Commerce plans to leave Courthouse Square and lease an office in town — a move, chamber officials say, that will enable it to better serve both visitors and chamber members.
An advisory committee appointed by the King County Council recommended Islander Sharon Nelson and three others as candidates to fill the county council seat left empty by the election of now-County Executive Dow Constantine.
