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Jean Davies Okimoto's latest book

Arts

Exploring life in a place we know well

Jean Davies Okimoto is an award-winning author, retired psychotherapist and local Islander. She is also a dear friend.…

Opinion

With help, a boy and his family find community | On the Verge

Raven Pyle-McCrackyn joined me for coffee at Minglement one gray afternoon in December. She walked over from the…

Shane Jewell and Emily Pruiksma’s life

Arts

A couple learns to live simply, richly

To step into Shane Jewell and Emily Pruiksma’s home in Paradise Valley is to enter a world made…

Bruce Haulman paints one of his Pacific Northwest Coast masks

News

Vashon’s unofficial historian has long pondered life’s ‘contingencies’ | Keeper of the Place

From Bruce Haulman’s geranium-filled deck overlooking Tramp Harbor, low tides reveal vestiges of Vashon’s first ferry boat landing,…

Opinion

On the Verge: One man seeks a hand up, not a hand out

Like any good entrepreneur, Islander Richard Lipshay understands the necessity for seed money to fund a new business…

Rayna and Jay Holtz hope to recoup the investment in their solar panels in 15 to 20 years.

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Island couple’s solar panels mark the completion of a 30-year dream

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Emily Burns (right) and her daughter Mara say they're now warm in their 1907 farmhouse

Arts

A drafty Vashon farmhouse gets a new lease on life

Emily Burns fell in love, quite by accident, in 2002 — with a charming two-story farmhouse on Vashon…