Two Islanders have jumped into the race for the open seat on the board that oversees King County Water District…
Molly Dillon sat in front of Vashon Thriftway selling homemade cookies and friendship bracelets on Sunday — not for an extracurricular club or Island nonprofit but to save teaching positions at her elementary school.
A wind energy consulting firm on Vashon Island has received a $200,000 federal grant to determine what kinds of government policies and incentives are needed to advance small-scale, on-site wind generation across the country.
The Islander who successfully sued the Vashon fire department for the way she was treated during her attempt to get a job as a firefighter at the agency said she’s glad to have the lawsuit behind her.
In a unanimous vote Tuesday night, the King County Library System’s board of trustees endorsed a plan to keep Vashon’s branch library at its current location in Ober Park.
The Vashon Elementary School gymnasium — a 1919 wood-frame structure slated to be demolished later this year — has been declared one of the most endangered historic structures in the state by the Washington Trust for Historic Preservation.
King County Water District 19, Vashon’s largest water purveyor, is considering a new policy that would allow residential customers to supply both their main residence and a rental unit in their house or on their property with one water share.
The King County Library System will not have to apply for a conditional use permit if it builds a new branch or expands its current one at Ober Park, the county’s Department of Development and Environmental Services (DDES) has stated.
Some who keep a close eye on the drug scene on Vashon say that black tar heroin, for the first time in recent memory, is being sold on the Island.
The Vashon-Maury Island Land Trust has sold a 30-acre conservation easement in Paradise Valley to King County, ensuring the parcel retains its natural habitat and improving the salmon-spawning capacity of Judd Creek, the land trust announced last week.
Andy James counted himself lucky when he landed his first teaching job at Chautauqua Elementary School three years ago.
A liquor store is slated to move into the heart of Vashon’s downtown core, displacing both the John L. Scott office and Eyeland Optical, two businesses that now occupy the 1920 brick building next to The Hardware Store Restaurant.
