I have always believed the term “Christmas Miracle” was a bit too sentimental to describe what happened during that auspicious December 15 years ago. As I recall it, we simply had a duty and challenge to keep the nursing home on Vashon when the outlook was bleak.
Ready or not, the holiday season is upon us. For many it is a time of celebration; for others it is a time of feeling disconnected. For all the inequitable spending, giving and getting, rushing around and preparations, what’s the purpose?
For wont of a cheaper soda, many Washingtonians are likely to suffer.
In keeping with the way I roll during the holiday season, I’ve waited until the last possible moment to write…
Squeamish. It’s the only word I can think of to aptly describe the way I felt when I opened the cupboard door and saw that little gray mouse.
For about 13 years now, I have been very blessed. I am one of the only people I know who gets to tell her parenting journey in ink.
There have been a few comments — online and in letters to the editor — about whether it really makes sense to spend $36 million to purchase the 250-acre Glacier Northwest site on Maury Island.
Some have suggested the money could be better used elsewhere, that there are projects that would deliver more return for the investment. Others have said that King County will suffer financially when the property is taken out of private hands and put into public ones, since we’ll forego the property’s tax receipts.
There was a time when the Vashon-Maury Island Com-munity Council took on important business on Vashon. Twelve years ago, it…
As a new board member on the Vashon-Maury Island Community Council, I find myself perplexed and more than a little intimidated by the adversarial environment.
A publication about Island water — aptly called “Liquid Assets” — was mailed to all Islanders a few weeks ago. The Vashon-Maury Island Groundwater Protection Committee hopes this will mark the start of a new chapter in a long-running community dialogue about our Island’s water resources and sustainability.
On Thursday, Dec. 9 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Vashon High School, officials from Washington State Ferries (WSF) will visit Vashon. Among other things, they will present a potentially devastating proposal to cut our ferry service.
People often look at me curiously as I walk around the ferry cabin carrying binoculars around my neck and stopping to peer out windows. Once a ferry worker asked me what I was looking at. I offered her my binoculars and pointed so she could see for herself.
The Beachcomber is making a change this week — a change that is, at once, on the industry’s leading edge…
