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Boys’ soccer tastes defeat twice

After starting the season with two very strong games, the Vashon High School boys’ soccer team hit a…

Letters to the Editor

Blue Heron’s history is something that cannot be replaced

The recent Beachcomber article about Vashon Allied Arts’ curator Janice Malman’s heartfelt, impromptu words at the final gallery…

Sports

Softball falls in two close matches

On Wednesday, March 23, the Vashon High School girls’ softball team travelled to Robinwood Field to face Forest…

Islanders gather to shop for locally grown plants at the Vashon Maury Island Garden Club’s annual spring plant sale. This year

News

HOME & GARDEN: Garden club, island students will sell plants at annual sale

With a new location and a new push for “fluffy, flowering plants,” this year’s Vashon Maury Island Garden…

Sweet meat squash

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HOME & GARDEN: Sweet Meat Squash: Stores well, tastes great

If I only had one culinary pumpkin or winter squash to grow, Sweet Meat would be it.

Kokedama air plants planted at Vashon’s Glass Bottle Creamery

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HOME & GARDEN: Air plants are fun and easy-to-grow, require only water to thrive inside

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Kokedama and Tillandsias — aka, air plants.

Apricot preserves on toast

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HOME & GARDEN: From Vashon farmers

Favorite recipes to tempt the taste buds from two island farmers

Kat Eggleston

Arts

Daughter honors father in concert with Free Range folk choir

Some 15 years ago in Philadelphia, island musician Kat Eggleston told her friend Utah Phillips about her father’s…

Opinion

Lawmakers need to understand ferry system | Editorial

Ferry commuters on Friday were in for a surprise when the aging Issaquah broke down at the Fauntleroy…

Opinion

Highway 99 tunnel project could be easier, quicker with criminal group of borers

While we await the liberation of Big Bertha — the world’s largest boring machine — from Seattle’s soft…

Letters to the Editor

The caucus: Why my vote is with Sanders

My favorite Clinton supporter makes our bar table a caucus of two, and we’re deadlocked. Saturday’s Democratic Caucus…

Obituaries

Thomas A. Denend

Born September 18th, 1943, in Hepner, Oregon, Died March 24th, 2016, on Vashon Island. Tom was preceded in…

Sports

Girls’ tennis season gets underway with wins over Cascade, Kings

The girls’ tennis season at Vashon High School got underway on March 1.