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Editorial: Festivals, and elections, show us who we are

Please take time to thoughtfully consider the choices on your ballot.

A gray wolf. Gary Kramer/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Northwest

‘Endangered’ status to remain in effect for WA wolves

A sharply-divided state panel on July 19 retained strict protections for gray wolves in Washington, concluding their status…

The candidates of Unofficial Mayor are (left to right, top row) Marjorie Watkins, Uncle Wigglebottom, (middle row) Andy the Service Dog, Edgar the Forest King, and Nisqually, (bottom row) Fiona and Buddy Butterbean Bukowski. (Courtesy photos.) The candidates of Unofficial Mayor are (left to right, top row) Marjorie Watkins, Uncle Wigglebottom, (middle row) Andy the Service Dog, Edgar the Forest King, and Nisqually, (bottom row) Fiona and Buddy Butterbean Bukowski. (Courtesy photos.)

News

Strawberry Festival 2024: Unofficial Mayor’s Race

One dollar for one vote: Vashon’s Unofficial Mayor’s race is on.

The Hasbian’s women’s softball team of the 1990s represent an early growing population of lesbians and gays on the Island who were quietly out of the closet but not highly visible. (Courtesy photo.)

News

Time Again: Vashon’s LGBTQIA2S+ Residents

A history of a rainbow of identities on the island.

Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor | July 18 edition

Letters from the post office and more.

Making Movies will bring psychedelic Latin grooves to Open Space on July 24. (Adam Gunderscheimer photo.)

Arts

Arts Briefs | July 18 edition

Psychedelic Latin grooves, Stupid Bikes and more Studio Ghibli films.

Interns at the Vashon Nature Center in early July took to kayaks to survey a kelp bed on the island’s north end. (Courtesy photo.)

News

News Briefs | July 18 edition

Wins for Vashon Nature Center, whale safety.

Opinion

It takes a village

Join us this weekend at Strawberry Festival.

Mickey Fontaine

Opinion

Talking to teens — rather than talking down

Does a film recently screened for VHS students hit the mark?

Megan Yeager (right), Vashon Park District lifeguard, swim instructor, and Vashon Seals Swim Team assistant coach, holds a banner of water safety tips with lifeguard colleague Michael “Wish” Wishkoski. “At a bare minimum, every child should learn how to float,” Yeager said. (Courtesy photo.)

News

VashonBePrepared: Summertime water safety and swimming lessons save lives

And those lessons aren’t just for kids.

(Left to right, back row) Brian Palermo, Alyssa Norling, (left to right, front) Bill Esptein, and Reed Harvey are cast members of Drama Dock’s upcoming production of “A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay about the Death of Walt Disney.” (Steven Sterne photo.)

Arts

Drama Dock takes on Disney

The organization’s next offering is a biting take on Walt Disney.

A boy picks out Honeycrisp apples for his family at Swans Trail Farms in Snohomish, Washington. Sound Publishing File Photo

Northwest

Selling Washington’s food and farm products to the world

Department of Agriculture is assembling a program to help promote products grown, raised, caught, baked and brewed in…

Tan (Sean) Cahil. (Courtesy photo.)

News

Happenings | July 18 edition

Ice cream, films, fun at the Senior Center and more.