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Community foundation forms to support islandwide efforts

A new nonprofit foundation born out of years of work at the Vashon Chamber of Commerce is seeking…

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Armed with litter grabbers, bright yellow safety vests and vintage Bartell Drugs bags, Deborah Diamond (left) and Elizabeth Boutin have made roadside cleanup part of their daily routine on Vashon.

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Vashon’s ‘litter old ladies’ clean up island roads

What do you call two retired women who spent their careers collecting taxes and now spend retirement collecting…

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Happenings | July 9 edition

Happenings features community, cultural and nonprofit events; notices are free and printed as space permits. Due to the…

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Members of the Thriftway Shopping Cart Drill Team perform in the 2017 Strawberry Festival parade.

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A Festival favorite rolls back into town

Festival.

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Tour-goers sit on benches in the ceremonial space.

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Vashon takes a look inside Thunderbird ahead of summer opening

Vashon residents got a firsthand look inside the new Thunderbird Treatment Center during a series of tours on…

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Seattle Indian Health Board President and CEO Esther Lucero (Diné) stands near the current grassy landing area at Vashon Municipal Airport, where a new emergency helipad is expected to be completed by the end of September.

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Thunderbird gives nearly $350K for Vashon emergency helipad

The airport upgrade aims to make emergency airlifts from Vashon faster and safer.

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Islanders gather around a hydroplane at Jensen Point as crews prepare boats for Vashon’s annual Fourth of July race around the island.

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Island traditions light up the Fourth

Vashon marked Independence Day from dawn to dark this year, beginning with its annual hydroplane race at Jensen…

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A Bicentennial quilt stitched by fifth graders at Vashon Elementary School in 1976 is preserved in the Vashon History Museum archives. The quilt’s embroidered panels celebrate both American history and life on Vashon. Each panel is signed by the student who created it.

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How Vashon prepared for America’s bicentennial 50 years ago

Fifteen months before the first bicentennial fireworks cracked across the sky, Vashon had already started celebrating. The first…

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Happenings | July 2 edition

Happenings features community, cultural and nonprofit events; notices are free and printed as space permits. Due to the…

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Carl Hillman and Mayumi Ogawa accept a posthumous degree for their son, Sean Ogawa Hillman, from Cal Poly President Jeffrey D. Armstrong during the university’s June 14 commencement ceremony.

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Cal Poly honors Sean Hillman with posthumous degree

Three years after Sean Ogawa Hillman was struck and killed while bicycling near his college campus, his parents…

The 2026 candidates for Unofficial Mayor of Vashon are, from top left: Vashon Explorers Preschool, Singer the gray whale and Marshall the strawberry; middle row: Jazzy, Doug Hershey and Bee; bottom row: The Giving Tree and Red, the Vashon HouseHold office pup. (Courtesy photos)

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Unofficial Mayor race kicks off

On Vashon, the road to political glory may run through a whale skeleton, an office dog, a strawberry…

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News Briefs | July 2 edition

VISD bond planning survey

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Community members left sticky-note responses during a May 14 forum on Vashon High School’s cell phone policy.

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VHS adopts bell-to-bell cellphone policy

Vashon High School students will return to school this fall under a stricter cellphone policy, after the Vashon…