The fire department fielded nearly twice as many calls as usual over the holiday weekend, with three fires reported and multiple aid calls.
The group working to improve health care on the island has not made substantive progress, and members say they will regroup in the fall.
Several of the island’s amateur radio enthusiasts gathered in an open field at Sunrise Ridge last Saturday, where they set up an off-the-grid communications center in preparation for disaster.
A fire broke out at La Boucherie last Wednesday, with damages expected to total $50,000 for island business owner George Page.
King County Council-member Joe McDermott recently attended an island ceremony where he recognized former Vashon Maury Community Food Bank Executive Director Yvonne Pitrof for her service.
The Vashon Park District has reopened the bid process to complete the VES Fields and will hold a meeting early next month to discuss bids that come in.
Island Quilter, which closed its doors in April with plans to move off-island, will reopen on Vashon later this month
Under Sunday’s bright afternoon sun, a group of people, flanked by horses and their riders, made their way across an island field, eyes cast down, searching the waist-high grass for a missing person, a role played by a 3-foot stuffed mouse.
After six years tending to island women’s health care needs, nurse practitioner Kimberly Valencia is closing her practice at Vashon Women’s Health Center
The second season of Picnics in the Park, sponsored by the Vashon Maury Community Food Bank, will be offered five days a week this summer, beginning Monday, June 22.
Once every month a group of island women gathers for breakfast at The Hardware Store Restaurant to enjoy each other’s company and support one another through life’s highs and lows. They meet there because of its good food and service, according to member Vicki Clabaugh, and for another reason as well.
The new red roof on the Point Robinson Lighthouse gleamed in the late afternoon sun last Friday and is part of a project that began late last month and is expected to be completed this week
Ken Larsen, for years a popular teacher at Chatauaqua Elementary School, died Sunday after being hospitalized for several weeks.