Two years ago, when a huge winter storm cut power to the Vashon Community Care Center, members of the Church of the Holy Spirit saw a role for their small, mission-oriented congregation.
After an outpouring of opposition to the library’s potential move out of Ober Park, the King County Library System (KCLS) and the Vashon Park District are poised to resume discussions about the location of the Island’s heavily used and much-loved branch, both sides reported Wednesday.
I’ve replayed the scene in my mind far too many times.
Walking down a silent, snowy Bank Road hand in hand with my husband, Jim. Seeing a white SUV in the distance. Realizing we needed to get our dog, who was bounding out of sight, back onto the leash.
The Island’s ferry advisory committee has sent a letter to the state urging officials to consider the economic impact a reduction in ferry service would have on Vashon.
In the debate over whether to support an upcoming bond measure that will overhaul Vashon’s worn high school, one question some property owners are struggling with is the potential costs they’ll face as a result. Will property taxes go up only nominally, as the campaign’s Web site suggests? Or will they go up considerably, as some of the measure’s opponents contend? And either way, are there other tangible financial benefits that will strengthen the community, as Hattery says? Or will the Island become an increasingly expensive place to live, a haven for the well-to-do?
In what some are already calling a significant victory for open government, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday that King County’s $124,000 fine for failing to deliver up hundreds of pages of documents to Islander Armen Yousoufian is far too small.
Several protesters in kayaks, canoes and other boats took to the waters off of Maury Island Tuesday and Wednesday in an effort to disrupt work at Glacier Northwest’s pier-building site in the final days of the corporation’s construction window.
Court documents suggest volunteer firefighter Lanora Hackett and two other female firefighters at Vashon Island Fire & Rescue (VIFR) were treated hostilely, hazed by their male counterparts and passed over for jobs by an administration that did nothing to alter the department’s all-male culture.
Glacier Northwest is scheduled to halt work today on its 305-foot barge-loading pier after the state denied its request to continue the construction project beyond the closing of the so-called fish window designed to project spawning herring.
The number of off-Island students has grown significantly in just the last few years, from 44 in the 2003-04 academic year to 130 today, he said. According to his analysis, the current population of off-Island students brings to the district $742,500 in state dollars and costs the district about $450,000 — with a net of $190,600 going to the district, he said.
The decision to hold what KCLS is calling an “evening of conversation” next Wednesday night came after a meeting last week organized and facilitated by King County Councilman Dow Constantine. Several key Islanders were at the meeting, as were KCLS director Bill Ptacek and members of his board.
A student recently burst into Kathleen Dean Moore’s office at Oregon State University having figured out the answer to a question she was pursuing — the ingredient needed to motivate people to change.
For years, Quartermaster Harbor has provided a winter refuge to the western grebe, an elegant, long-necked diver that has experienced a precipitous decline throughout Puget Sound.
