As the Nov. 8 election day draws near, two candidates for Vashon Island Fire & Rescue’s board are finishing one of the most publicly fought contests on Vashon in recent memory.
In an effort to end a bitter dispute that has divided a once-thriving ballet program, the Vashon Park District has told both sides that they need to come together and elect a new board to oversee the fractured organization.
As part of its efforts to end a common perception that substance abuse is tolerated on Vashon, the Vashon Alliance to Reduce Substance Abuse (VARSA) will put on its second Dump Vashon event.
A makeover of the sitting area next to the Vashon Pharmacy comes as one of several projects that will take shape around the Island over the course of several months in a wide effort to curb public drinking and drug use.
Taxes and on-Island volunteerism were both hot topics at Wednesday night’s Fire Commissioner Candidates Debate, where four candidates for two seats on the Vashon Island Fire & Rescue’s board of commissioners faced off before a crowd of about 75.
While four Islanders are running this fall to fill two positions on Vashon’s fire board, one race is getting significantly more attention than the other.
In a much less public race, longtime VIFR volunteer Deborah Brown is challenging incumbent Ron Turner, a retired Cost Guard senior chief who will finish his six-year term this year.
Kay Burrell’s fifth-grade class buzzed with excitement on Mon-day afternoon as the single-file line of kids approached a small detention pond just beginning to fill from the autumn rain. Surrounded by thick woods, only the noise of the playground in the distance reminded the students bundled in sweatshirts and raincoats that they were still near their elementary school.
Beginning this Saturday, Island Center Forest will close to everyone but hunters for 17 days.
The Vashon Maury Island Land trust recently received grants from REI and the Vashon Rotary to continue improvements and restoration work at the Shinglemill Creek Preserve.
Thanks to what Vashon business owners call a true community effort, it’s now a little easier to throw trash away in downtown Vashon. Two garbage cans, purchased by the Vashon Merchants’ Association, have been in-stalled in the town core.
On Sunday morning Rick Edwards got into his yellow truck and headed, as he does each week, to the Church of the Holy Spirit. And though his partner Tom Land was out of town, Edwards wasn’t alone. His poodle Gracie squirmed excitedly in the seat beside him.
Last Thursday afternoon Washington State Ferries (WSF) worker Lisa Lennon stood on the sidewalk at the end of the Fauntleroy ferry dock directing thick commuter traffic through the tollbooths, a job that until this summer was filled by a Washington State Patrol cadet.