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Challenge Day to return to Vashon
Challenge Day, an effort to strengthen the high school community by spotlighting the harmful impact of cliques and…
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Parents gather to discuss teen substance abuse
Vashon Island School District’s new substance abuse prevention specialist plans to hold a special meeting with parents next…
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Local shops give away a portion of sales
During the month of December, Sea Change Tattoo Parlor will donate 10 percent of its tattoo and gift…
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McCullough wins tightly contested fire board race
Candy McCullough has won the closely contested race for Position 4 on Vashon’s fire board by 66 votes.
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Bank dissatisfaction reverberates on Vashon
While some Islanders are showing their dissatisfaction with large banks by transferring their accounts to Vashon’s credit union,…
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Facing the future: Theater braces for a new era
Since Eileen Wolcott bought Vashon Theatre in 2003, she has upgraded almost everything about the landmark space, giving…
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Incentives spur search for a public site for solar
In what organizers see as a race against time, two Vashon groups are looking for publicly owned sites…
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Finding empathy through babies: A new program takes root
It is Friday morning, and the students in Tara Brenno’s second-grade class at Chautauqua Elementary School are standing…
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Island nonprofit sets its sights on continued conservation efforts
Before the county’s purchase of Glacier Northwest’s mining site on Maury Island was complete last January, ending the…
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Voice of Vashon seeks input as it works to shape its future
Voice of Vashon, a community-based radio and emergency information organization launched more than a decade ago, is seeking…
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Vashon Fields have gone to the dogs
A border collie named Ron recently helped the park district solve what could have become a costly problem.
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New effort gets under way to help Vashon’s seniors ‘age in place’
With the goal of helping Islanders stay in their homes as they age, a group of Vashon women…
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Farmers find it’s hard to get produce into schools
Last winter, Vashon farmer Joe Yarkin sold $40 of sunchokes to the Vashon Island School District, the beginning,…