Vashon High School seniors will no longer be able to zip to Subway, take a quick trip home or run to the beach during their lunch period as a result of a decision made by the five-member board that oversees the Vashon Island School District.
Loren Hill strolled leisurely across the front of the classroom, thumbs in his belt-loops and shoulders thrown back, “moseying” for his third-grade class at Chautauqua Elementary School.
The state Department of Ecology has decided to require Glacier Northwest to provide extensive public review and comment as the corporation devises a plan for how it will handle arsenic-laced soil at its mining site on Maury.
Ron Newell, left, grandson of photographer Norman Edson, congratulates Roger Douglas on winning the raffle for an original Edson photo.
Senior Services’ transportation program provides an essential service to local seniors by arranging transportation to medical appointments. The programs is in need of more volunteer drivers. Every week the program turns away 10 or 20 seniors who call, due to the shortage of drivers.
The Vashon Island Fire & Rescue board will meet at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 1, in the Penny Farcy Memorial Training Center.
A listing of various clubs and organizations on Vashon and Maury islands.
Steamboats played an important role in Vashon and Maury islands’ history and development, and this summer brings opportunities to learn about this history firsthand.
The steamer “Virginia V,” a national historic landmark constructed in 1922, will visit the Island on Aug. 17. The boat will pick up passengers at the northend ferry dock and cruise around the Island past waterfront landings where Islanders once waited for the daily boats that took them to Seattle or Tacoma.
Yaani Drucker has spent 25 years researching the underlying cause of conflict and injustice in the world and would like to share her findings and engage Islanders in a meaningful discussion on the problem and the solution in a weekend intensive called “Planetary Enlightenment and You.”
School board to meet tomorrow
