Piner Point, the southern-most tip of Maury Island, is a quiet stretch of shoreline — a long ribbon of cobbled beach backed by steep banks and a tangled forest of firs and madrones.
Highline Medical Group, which oversees the Vashon Health Center at Sunrise Ridge, is asking all of its non-insured patients on Vashon to pay a minimum down payment of $75 at the time of service.
Despite Vashon’s green credentials, the Island is not considered particularly strong when it comes to energy conservation. Chalk it up, at least in part, to the Island’s aging housing stock — a collection of homes built as summer get-aways, with thin walls and large, single-pane windows.
To walk the land with George Singer is to find that nearly everything on his undulating expanse of pasture and forest holds a story.
U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott, calling the nation’s new health care law “the biggest change in social policy since 1930,” told Islanders he’s running for a 12th term in the House because the landmark legislation needs much more work.
The Vashon Island School District has raised $305,000, more than halfway to its ambitious goal of $500,000 by June 30, administrators report.
A cash box containing an estimated $600 in cash and checks was stolen from a popular farm stand on Maury Island Wednesday night or Thursday morning.
Those who know the two women well say that Opal Montague was the gracious one, able to smooth ruffled feathers when the need arose, while Dorothy Johnson was the firebrand, the activist determined to right what she saw as a wrong.
The Vashon Island school board approved a final suite of cuts to its 2010-11 budget Thursday night, agreeing to lay off two janitors, three para-educators and all of the campus monitors.
A longtime Islander has been charged with two counts of first-degree rape for assaulting two teen girls — one last January and another in 2003 — both times by allegedly sneaking into the girls’ home while their parents were asleep in another room.
In a week or two, Islanders will receive a survey from King County, asking Vashon residents if they’d like a service already offered in nearly every other community in the county — curbside yard waste and food waste recycling.
An Islander who was often seen longboarding down Vashon’s streets, his black dreadlocks flying behind him, was seriously injured on May 15 when he fell off his board during a fluke accident near Port Orchard.
Ken Maaz, a former Vashon resident with several years of experience running human service agencies in Tacoma and Seattle, has been hired to head Vashon Youth & Family Services.