The volunteers working to create a credit union on Vashon have tabulated the results from their recent community survey and have charted a course they hope will lead to the creation of a credit union on Vashon in 2011.
Vashon Women’s Health Center celebrated its first anniversary this month and welcomed three new providers to the homey downtown clinic: licensed midwife Gail Murphy, physical therapist Andra DeVoght and integrative medicine physician Marcie Hamrick.
The aroma of fresh flowers greets customers at Vashon’s longstanding flower shop Blooms & Things, but customers might detect something…
Sen. Patty Murray will honor Vashon’s Sue Nebeker at Murray’s annual Golden Tennis Shoe award luncheon this Friday in Seattle.
Island coffee drinkers now have a chance to brew a good pot of coffee and support activities at the high school with the newly created Pirate Blend from the Vashon Island Coffee Roasterie.
Organizers of the proposed Credit Union Vashon have launched a survey to determine the community’s interest in a credit union and have set a June 1 deadline for responses.
Pure, Vashon’s newest café, opened last weekend, giving Islanders a venue for vegetable juices, smoothies and small bites for breakfast and lunch.
Chautauqua Elementary School students were greeted with sad news last week: Newburg, the beloved library dog, had died unexpectedly the weekend before.
Islander Celina Yarkin, a mother of three young girls, a farmer and a fixture at her family’s produce table at the weekly Farmers Market, has taken on the issue of the low vaccination rate in Vashon’s children.
After a several-year hiatus, Islander Lidunn Øverdahl Cain is returning to her work as an architect, hoping to bring her training and Norwegian sensibilities to a practice that includes a focus on making homes with challenging or small spaces work well.
A group of Islanders has been working since January to bring a credit union to Vashon, a move they say…
The newly painted electric blue walls of the former carpet shop are testament to the transformation that is taking place inside the modest retail space in downtown Vashon.
Several whales have been spotted around Vashon in recent weeks, including two sightings on Easter Sunday, one of a gray whale off Jensen Point in Quartermaster Harbor and another of a group of transient Orcas off of Dolphin Point.
