Amy Carey had a case of laryngitis when the lawyer representing Preserve Our Islands, the group she heads, called to tell her a U.S. District judge had ruled in their favor.
Jacob Acier last saw his mother 15 years ago, when he was a 7-year-old boy forced to flee his village in the high plains of Eastern Africa.
The rumor has been circling the Island like a gull at KVI Beach: Johnny Depp, word has it, just bought Tom Stewart’s spectacular 525-acre estate near Paradise Valley.
A three-hour power outage on Wednesday — the hottest day of the year — forced businesses to close, raised concerns among Islanders and threw Vashon’s two grocery stores into a frantic rush to keep food items from spoiling.
All five of the major candidates for King County executive have proposed dramatically curtailing the county’s newly formed ferry district, with some even suggesting the route between Vashon and downtown Seattle be axed.
The Vashon Island school board is expected to decide Thursday whether to ask voters to approve a $2.7 million levy aimed at continuing the district’s technology program and fully implementing a maintenance plan for its aging buildings.
Several civic leaders plan to hold a public forum to discuss how budget cuts and the economic downturn are affecting the most vulnerable Islanders and whether the nonprofit community and concerned citizens can work together to address a range of needs.
King County Councilmember Larry Phillips on Thursday called for redirecting money from the county’s newly created ferry district and putting those funds instead into the county’s cash-strapped regional bus service.
Though real estate activity has picked up in the last month, Vashon-based real estate agents remain braced for another tough year.
Concerned that several businesses are “hanging on by a thread,” the Vashon-Maury Chamber of Commerce has hired an Island-based public relations firm to craft a broad-based plan to figure out how to bring more tourists to Vashon.
School administrators have put forward a scaled-back version of a bond measure to rebuild Vashon High School — one that…
More than 50 people are gathering at a private family home on Vashon’s west side this week, learning how to use a kayak to block construction and climb towers to make a statement.
