I have made a motion at the Vashon-Maury Island Community Council to send a letter to the state requesting a tideland inventory, but I need your vote.
In a time when there is much apprehension about the future, one of the most soothing exercises for me is action. Focused action is the antidote to fear. The new All Island Forum community group offers Vashon a great vehicle for action. It has the potential to be a voice of the village. A mechanism that can express the thoughts of many. Listen, engage, express, act.
It’s good news that the Vashon Island School District was awarded a contract enabling it to house a professional in the area of teen substance abuse. The new hire, announced last week, represents one more step in an ongoing effort on the community’s part to address a vexing problem on Vashon.
This is what I remember about 9/11, the day it happened, 10 years ago. I was at home with my wife Sheila in our apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Our building was situated about five miles north of the World Trade Center.
There are Island moments, and then there are did-that-just-happen? Island moments, the ones that you pass down to your children and grandchildren as family myths, told so many times they morph into wondrous tales that leave listeners awestruck and incredulous.
Closing Island Center Forest for a little more than two weeks for a limited deer hunt makes some sense.
On Monday, Aug. 29, I was arrested in Washington, D.C., for protesting the development of a pipeline that I believe will trigger far-reaching, immoral environmental and cultural damage.
On a recent bright but overcast Saturday, divers explored under the dock in Tramp Harbor, searching for critters to share with the visitors on the wooden deck above.
There’s much about the Vashon Island School District’s first full, formal iteration of a new high school to appreciate. If the design and construction team can deliver this building on time and on budget, it will provide, it appears, a structure that is at once both artful and functional.
Moving beyond a year of struggle in the Vashon-Maury Island Community Council, a group of us Island activists (old and new) is launching a new All Island Forum this fall.
Vashon’s public schools open their doors in a week — an annual rite of passage that offers an opportunity for us to consider how very lucky we are on this energetic and engaged Island
Last week I wrote of the Oberlin Project in Ohio and the lessons it might teach the planners of the new high school and the proposed performing arts center.
This just in: As the rest of the U.S. continues to sizzle in sweltering heat, tiny, ventilated Vashon Island, with average temperatures in the 60s and cloud cover you can count on, has become the go to place this summer for desperate citizens seeking relief from the insufferable sun.
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