New York Times bestselling author, activist and artist Patrisse Cullors came to Vashon last week, undertaking a residency at Vashon Center for the Arts that had several components and community initiatives.
“Concerti from the Court of Frederick the Great,” will be presented by the Salish Sea Early Music Festival.
A Vashon man, Michael Irwin Henderson, was arrested on April 8, and charged on April 12 in connection with Dorn’s death.
Vashon Island Chorale twice performed its “comeback concert,” onstage at the Kay L. White Hall, on April 9 and 10.
Vashon Island Fire & Rescue commissioners have voted to immediately increase minimum staffing for full-time career firefighters/emergency medical technicians (EMTs) to four per shift, up from VIFR’s current level of three per shift.
Three fourth-grade friends at Chautauqua Elementary have been engaged in a passion project for the past several months — assembling 100 backpacks for people without housing.
The clock is ticking for islanders to donate to the cause of saving Vashon Theatre, with less than 40 days remaining in a fundraising campaign to kickstart the creation of a new outdoor plaza at the theater.
Cullors will discuss her new book, “An Abolitionist’s Handbook: 12 Steps to Changing Yourself and the World.”
Check out the following array of new art on display at local galleries and art spots in April.
More than 200 people attended the rally, with at least two dozen participants coming from Vashon.
A group of Vashon volunteers is currently focused on welcoming Afghan war refugees now arriving in the Pacific Northwest to their new lives.
According to USPS spokesperson Ernst Swanson, the Burton post office will close its doors at the end of April.
A 91-foot tall pole was set in the ground behind Vashon Fire & Rescue, intended to be a new home for the station’s osprey couple.