The state ferry system is on an unsustainable path and is once again facing some painful cuts that will likely affect Vashon residents, the head of the system told a standing-room-only crowd on Vashon last week.
Vashon Park District officials continue to grapple with how to cut 10 percent, or about $131,000, from the district’s 2011…
Inside the eclectic and colorful Giraffe store, owner Priscilla Schleigh carefully packaged a customer’s purchase — a spruce-green tablecloth block-printed by women in Mumbai, a set of placemats handwoven in Indonesia and a bar of shea butter soap made on Vashon.
Rather than passing the fair-trade goods across the counter to a local customer, however, Schleigh put the items into a large box to be shipped to a woman in New York.
Both the Vashon School District and the Vashon Park District were recently awarded King County Youth Sports Facilities Grants.
On some weekends during the holiday season, so many Islanders leave Vashon to shop for gifts that a long line stretches from the ferry dock, almost as if it were a peak commute hour.
Indeed, most Vashon families will wake Christmas morning to find a tree surrounded with treasures purchased off the Island. A growing number of Islanders, though, simply cannot afford to give their families gifts this season.
At least three Island businesses were found to be vandalized Wednesday morning. Zoomies Burgers & Ice Cream, the post office…
First Lt. Robert Bennedsen, the Vashon man who died while serving in Afghanistan last summer, was inducted into Seattle University’s…
When Ed Swan became the meal coordinator for the Interfaith Council to Prevent Homelessness (IFCH), he was in for a surprise.
When King County Sheriff’s Deputy Mark Brown approaches a vehicle on Vashon, even on a routine traffic stop, he always…
Vashon residents are once again proving their commitment to supporting renewable energy. After meeting Puget Sound Energy’s Green Power Challenge…
When Lynann Politte performed the one-woman show “Eve Was Framed” at the Blue Heron a year ago, she was unsure…
