The Vashon-Maury Island Community Council is looking for a new place to hold its meetings after learning from Courthouse Square manager Tom Bangasser that the group will have to begin paying a fee to meet at the popular building on Vashon Highway.
King County’s newly approved budget contains $75,000 to facilitate the transfer of the county-owned Vashon pool to the Vashon Park District and nearly $1 million to support ongoing conservation work along Vashon’s eastern shore and Judd Creek.
After a round of negotiations with its insurance pool, Vashon Island Fire & Rescue is expected to pay $250,000 — rather than $751,000 — to cover the costs of a judgment from a gender discrimination lawsuit the department lost last year.
Eleven King County residents — including two Vashon Islanders — have filed to take newly elected County Executive Dow Constantine’s seat on the nine-member county council.
Vashon Theatre was burglarized over the weekend, losing nearly $10,000 worth of equipment — including a projector and two high-definition DVD players.
After weeks of internal discussion, the Puget Sound Zen Center has decided it would like to buy the Mukai House and Garden, a property it hopes to steward as both a historic site and a regional center for Zen Buddhism.
For decades, the Rosser family has lived next door to property owned by the Vashon Island School District — and for decades, the relationship between the two neighbors has been amicable.
A chimney fire on Cemetery Road just west of the McMurray Middle School was quickly quelled Friday morning after dozens of firefighters showed up, the first of them arriving within six minutes, said Vashon Fire Chief Hank Lipe.
Grinding, a nationwide dance style that many teens embrace and many parents find objectionable, will no longer take place at Vashon High School, school district administrators have announced.
The school district’s five board members are beginning to rally around a proposed $47.7 million bond measure that would pay for the construction of a new high school classroom building and the renovation of several existing structures on the sprawling campus.
With more than 70 percent of the Island ballots tallied from the Nov. 3 mail-in election, Vashon’s two levies — one supporting the Vashon Park District, the other Vashon Island School District — have won solid majorities.
Vashon Youth & Family Services, in a move that will lead the agency in a new direction, plans to take over operation of the YMCA’s popular child care program at Chautauqua Elementary School beginning Jan. 1.
King County, the state Department of Ecology and the University of Washington are about to begin a four-year research project examining the health of Quartermaster Harbor and the impact nitrogen is having on the stressed bay.
