In the final weeks of his tenure on the Vashon Island School Board, John “Oz” Osborne has put forward a…
As both a parent and a journalist, I’ve heard tales over the past couple of years about the kind of dancing that occurs at Vashon High School.
Last week, Wanda Moore set up a lawn chair next to the north-end ferry terminal where her latte stand had stood only days before, offering up hugs and farewells instead of double talls and single shorts.
Some residents are concerned about how the King County Sheriff’s Department responded to a complaint that a man offered a 12-year-old girl a ride as she walked from the bus stop to her home last month.
Marty Liebowitz and Bob Powell — contenders for an open seat on the commission that governs King County Water District 19 — seem to have more in common than not.
A King County Superior Court judge on Friday dismissed Tom Bangasser’s far-reaching suit against the county and several other entities for what the Island businessman called the “back-door” way the county rezoned the mammoth K2 building a year ago.
A former Islander whose nonprofit owns the Mukai Farm and Garden, considered one of Vashon’s most historically significant sites, is expected to put the property on the market in the next several days.
When Island voters receive their ballots for the Nov. 3 mail-in election this week, they’ll be asked to endorse a three-year, $2.7 million levy to pay for maintenance and technology at Vashon’s three public schools.
King County officials are hosting a meeting to find out if Islanders would like a critical stretch of Dockton Road redesigned with an eight-foot-wide sidewalk cantilevered over Tramp Harbor, transformed into a one-way road or decommissioned altogether.
Vashon’s only public pool could be one of the casualties in King County’s latest budget crisis.
When Chip Giller’s friends heard he would spend the $100,000 award he just received to start a college fund for his kids, support his online environmental publication and weatherize his 1911 farmhouse, one of them joked an intervention was needed.
If awards were given out for emergency preparedness, Georgia and John Galus would be serious contenders.
Environmental sustainability turned out to be the top concern among Islanders who attended Monday’s town hall-style meeting sponsored by the Vashon-Maury Island Community Council.
