The Seattle-King County Health Department is reviewing Glacier Northwest’s expansion plans on Maury Island to determine if the mining corporation will need to establish a landfill for the arsenic-laced soil it plans to remove.
Booth Gardner is pushing himself hard these days, much as he has most of his life.
The Vashon Island School District, facing a potential budget shortfall of more than $600,000, will likely have to reduce its staff size by around four positions, Superintendent Terry Lindquist told board members last week.
Peter Bruchas, friends recall, played a lyrical alto sax, an instrument he learned to love many years ago while a student at Vashon High School.
Vashon Thriftway received a letter from one of its baking companies last month saying its wholesale price of bread would soon spike because of an 80 percent increase in the cost of flour.
Vashon HouseHold is attempting to clean up what has long been one of the Island’s worst illegal dump sites, a wooded area near Roseballen that until last week was littered with several couches, a washing machine, old tires and mounds of trash.
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