Sports
Junior crew fares well at summer regatta
While our country's best rowers are competing on a somewhat windy lake in Rio, our local Vashon crews…
Arts
Register for the chorale’s winter concert
Vashon Island Chorale will offer registration for its winter concert of Handel's "Messiah" from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.…
Arts
Duo play free classical guitar concert
Local guitar master Matt Klassen and Spanish virtuoso guitarist Juan Carlos Lorenzo will perform an evening of classical…
Sports
Island woman swims around Maury
Islander and longtime open water swimmer Wendy Van De Sompele on Saturday swam from Tramp Harbor to Portage,…
Opinion
Roaming cougar, dead whale reminders of our place in world
At least four cougar sightings have been reported on the island in the past two weeks, and over…
Sports
New coach for VHS football, registration and practices beginning
Islander Clay Eastly has returned as coach of the Vashon High School football team, three years after stepping…
Opinion
Whichever surface is chosen, it should be organic
I read with great interest the article and editorial about the Vashon High School's new playing field debating…
Opinion
Lobby representatives to pass Alzheimer’s legislation
Fellow Washingtonians who attended the recent Alzheimer's Advocacy Forum in Washington, D.C. tell us it's encouraging to know…
Obituaries
Ruth Elisabeth Adams
Ruth Elisabeth Adams February 11, 1926 — August 7, 2016 In her last months, when dementia had stolen…
Obituaries
William Kenneth Lynn
William Kenneth Lynn William Kenneth Lynn of Buffalo, New York, formerly of Vashon, passed away Wednesday, August 3,…
Arts
Second annual festival will raise money to fund school music education programs
After a successful event last year that netted more than $5,000 to fund music programs for underprivileged students…
Arts
Colorful, creative art featured during August First Friday
Café Luna will show island photographer Peter Ray's new show, "Vashon by Night," for the month of August.…
Arts
Actors to perform ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ outside
Off Road Shakespeare Company actors will perform William Shakespeare's beloved and popular comedy, "A Midsummer Night's Dream," Saturday…