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Courtesy photo 200 Tons of Food: In a year of community service, Food Bank volunteers will lug 396,000 pounds (200 tons) of food per year from delivery trucks (top) and over the threshold of the warehouse (middle). About half of the food will be delivered to homes by volunteer drivers (bottom).

News

VashonBePrepared: Two essentials: Food and shelter

Want to help open a winter weather shelter? Read on.

Phil Clapham photo An adult male killer whale surfaces off San Juan Island.

News

Meet your local cetaceans: The orca

Orcas are master predators, revered by humans and bonded in tightly-knit families.

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Obituaries

Mary Lee Hutchinson

She loved gardening and baking, took pride in her Irish ancestry and had a strong will.

Opinion

Editorial: For the love of the game

Island athletes need our support to keep competing.

Bruce Haulman

Opinion

Commentary: Vashon and the 2024 election

How did Vashon, a Republican bastion, become so reliably Democratic voting?

Tory Hayes

Opinion

Commentary: Vashon needs home care aides. We’re ready to help.

Scholarships are available to train the next generation of home care aides.

Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor | October 17 edition

Readers write in about the presidential election and a ballot initiative.

Courtesy photo Vashon 2 Voters, a program of Indivisible Vashon, through volunteer effort, has written more than 19,000 postcards since November 2023 to voters across the country encouraging their participation in our democracy, according to program coordinator Debby Jackson. This photo, of several of the V2V writers, was taken at Indivisible Vashon's Oct. 8 meeting. Learn more about Vashon 2 Voters at indivisiblevashon.org/GOTV/

News

News Briefs | Oct. 17 edition

Vashon encourages voters, museum mammoth named, Painter grants open.

The Vashon Island Grappling Club’s Adult Team, from left to right: Nick Arnold, Kidd Williams, Eric Rogneby, Sean Lang, Claudia Gross Shader, and Bobby Dodd. (Courtesy photo)

Sports

Vashon grappling team earns 11 medals at Brazilian jiu-jitsu competition

BJJ is similar to wrestling, but it also allows chokes, armlocks, and leglocks.

Michelle Bates Photo

Arts

Review: “Edgar Sawtelle” revives Book-It Repertory’s legacy

From the start, audiences are immersed in the world Wroblewski so evocatively created in his book.

Jim Diers photo Steffon Moody paints underneath underneath the pier at Tahlequah.

Arts

Arts Briefs | October 17 edition

Learn from Steffon Moody and Ray Pfortner, and catch dazzling concerts at VCA.

Inner Quartermaster Harbor, photographed by Ray Pfortner. Pfortner will host a series of classes this fall on photography. (Ray Pfortner photo)

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Happenings | Oct. 17 edition

Learn about soil health, take a bird walk and enjoy an Autumn harvest celebration

Photo courtesy of Anna Tarazevich from Pexels

Northwest

WA women 9th in nation for breast cancer diagnoses, analysis finds

Washington women were more likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer despite receiving fewer mammograms than the national…