Island educator Barbara Gustafson will read from her recently published book, “Vashon ABCs: An Exploration of Shore Life,” this week.
Vashon Youth & Family Services, the island’s largest social service agency, recently restructured in an effort to better serve those in need of both mental health and addiction treatment services.
Proposed regulations regarding Initiative 502, which legalized marijuana use in the state, could mean that Vashon will see marijuana-related retail businesses and production facilities in the heart of downtown next year and fenced fields of marijuana around the island.
The sun sank low in the sky last Friday evening while families with young children cast their lines in the water at Manzanita Beach, and several men sat on a log, watching for a sign that pinks were swimming by.
An islander’s concerns about herbicide use at the Maury Island Marine Park have prompted changes in the use of chemicals in King County’s restoration efforts there.
Several public officials will be on Vashon next week, seeking input on proposed zoning regulations that will govern marijuana-related businesses that arise in the wake of Initiative 502
Katiana Taylor, a 2011 graduate of Vashon High school, died Sunday evening while swimming with friends in Lake Nawatzel in Mason County.
Nearly three years after a community effort brought Puget Sound Cooperative Credit Union to Vashon, an additional credit union will open soon.
Thanks to the generosity of an islander retiring from a career in high-end cabinetry work, Vashon may soon have its own woodworking cooperative and is seeking community input to make it happen.
One day this spring, when Linda Bianchi went to put away a pearl earring she’d recently had repaired, she found that some of her jewelry was missing. She also found, in the coming weeks, that many island women have surprisingly similar stories.
An islander who is a consulting psychiatrist and an author will give a talk next week on the importance of forgiving one’s parents.
Several island merchants are displaying quilts this week in a colorful prelude to the Vashon Quilt Guild’s show, set to begin Friday.
After nearly six years running Bob’s Bakery, the owners have put the longtime island business up for sale.
