Need a replacement for your lost phone charger? How about a few bales of hay, some used bricks or a loaner refrigerator? Or maybe you’re seeking expert advice about how the heck to eject a stuck CD from a player.

Look no further: For these and thousands of other needs, an online community named VashonALL is just a click away.

The list serve — a Yahoo email group — has been around since 2006, providing a virtual marketplace for Islanders to seek, sell, barter and give away items, as well as announce events and provide timely information about Vashon-centric things like road closures, power outages and more.

Over the years, the site has racked up more than 23,000 posts, and grown to include 1,735 active members, which means that almost two of every 10 people living on the Island belong to the group.

“This has been a tool that allows everybody to help each other,” said Julie K. Walton, who recently took over the reins of moderating the list. “The thing I love the most are posts like, ‘If you mow my lawn, I’ll make you an apple crisp.’”

Walton, a former insurance claims examiner who moved to Vashon from the Midwest in December 2010, said she spends at least three hours a day monitoring the site — a volunteer job she sought out and relishes because she is disabled due to an autoimmune disorder and fibromyalgia.

“As a new moderator of VvashonALL, I found that instead of being a bored, housebound hermit, I had suddenly become a neighbor and a useful part of this incredible Island community,” she recently explained in an email introducing herself to the group.

Walton doesn’t plan any big changes for the site, she said in a phone interview.

“It’s moderated with a light touch — we give people as much freedom of expression as possible,” she said.

But Viv Ilo Veith, who co-founded the site with Islander Julie Shannon and moderated it for its first six years, said the group’s membership has needed to be reminded from time to time that VashonALL is a place for information, not discussions. Nor is it appropriate to post invitations to religious or political events, or talk about anything that is not family friendly.

Posts about wildlife and pets, in particular, she said, have led to the most heated exchanges.

“We’ve had about four blowups, and they’ve all been about animals,” she said. “The first one was about squirrels, then there were two about raccoons, and the last one was about loose dogs. But it has not happened very often over the years, because we treat people like we expect them to act like adults. Information is OK, but if there are opinions and emotions, we cut it off.”

Veith, who moved to Seattle in 2009 to receive medical treatments for a brain injury and pursue work as a voice artist, said she has had to ban a few posters from the site for breaking the rules and other infractions. But for the most part, the group had functioned well, she said.

“I really loved running VashonALL. … It was my connection to the community,” she said. “It was a hard decision to step away.”

Guidelines for posting on VashonALL can be found by Googling the group’s name and then clicking on the Yahoo site. All Islanders and people with a connection to Vashon are welcome to sign up, provided they explain why they want to join.

After that, the fun of receiving dozens of informative emails a day from friends, neighbors and complete strangers can begin.

This being Vashon, though, new members can also expect a prank post at least every now and then.

Veith recalled that several years ago, during the construction of the Large Hadron Collider in France — a scientific machine that is the world’s largest and highest energy particle accelerator — Islander Tab Tabscott penned one of her all-time favorite queries on VashonALL.

“He posted that he was looking for a lower rotator magnet for a smallish Hadron accelerator that he was building in his backyard,” she said.

“Someone wrote back, saying she thought she had one in her barn, but she wondered how he was keeping his hydrogen liquid. … I let those posts stand — it’s nice to have some humor every now and then.”