Amy Wolff calls herself a natural-born networker. After retiring from a 30-year career as a travel agent, she found herself continuing to connect people with what they needed. This time she wasn’t recommending restaurants or setting up hotel reservations, but helping friends find jobs and businesses fill open positions.
Candy McCullough has won the closely contested race for Position 4 on Vashon’s fire board by 66 votes.
While some Islanders are showing their dissatisfaction with large banks by transferring their accounts to Vashon’s credit union, at least one Islander expressed his view by vandalizing three local banks.
Before the county’s purchase of Glacier Northwest’s mining site on Maury Island was complete last January, ending the largest environmental battle in Vashon’s history, Amy Carey, director of Preserve Our Islands, was already questioned on the future of POI.
A border collie named Ron recently helped the park district solve what could have become a costly problem.
Kevin Savage, a King County sheriff’s deputy who racked up several complaints during his short time patrolling Vashon in 2010, was fired last week, according to sheriff’s spokesperson Sgt. Cindi West.
Mikie Hoffmann, a 2010 graduate of Vashon High School, took home several awards from the National Sporting Clay Association’s national championship, held San Antonio, Texas, the last week of October.
The owners of Vashon Liquor are trying to determine what the passage of Initiative 1183, which privatized liquor sales in Washington, means for their small store.
Islanders came out in full force Wednesday night for a meeting to learn about and comment on the state’s plan to test and clean yards contaminated by the Tacoma Smelter Plume.
The driver of a car that drove off Vashon Highway near the north end Wednesday morning was transported via ferry to Harborview with only minor injuries, said Marc Brownell, battalion chief of EMS at Vashon Island Fire & Rescue.
When Allison Reid’s 9-year-old son started skateboarding at BARC this summer, she had some reservations.
Implementing elegant solutions to thorny problems is a Vashon talent. Little wonder, then, that a dedicated group of Islanders is taking steps to slow teen alcohol and drug use by doing something simple — changing the physical environment that enables the activity.
For the last two years, nearly every time Joe Yarkin went to the grocery store or ran an errand, he was stopped by someone who wanted an update on his 76-year-old mother.