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Your help keeps Vashon thriving

It’s crazy-amazing how lucky we are.

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Keep Vashon top-rated

We’re deeply concerned about proposed staff cuts in the school district.

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Like all life, we must evolve too

Greater intervention is needed on a planet-wide basis, and it must come from us humans.

Melinda Burrell

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Creating community, one conversation at a time

So much starts with a conversation.

Heidi Jackson, Executive Director, The DOVE Project. Maria Glanz, Executive Director, Vashon Senior Center. Jeni Johnson, Executive Director, Vashon Youth & Family Services. And Jason Johnson, Executive Director, Vashon HouseHold.

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Vashon Social Services Network: Vital to the community

Your support for any of these organizations helps the whole Vashon Social Services Network.

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Lifting up a song of thanks for Kay White’s generosity

The Kay White Choral Festival will be another tribute to Kay’s vision and contribution to our community.

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New cures for insomnia

COVID turned down the stereo, but the head-banging drummer, Insomnia, has become the guest who won’t leave.

Melinda Burrell
Melinda Burrell

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Be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud

How kindness makes us all stronger

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Biology, not technology, will save the planet

”Regenerating Life” offers a different, challenging, yet hopeful message about the climate crisis.

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Comprehensive plan process is worth your attention — and groans

Over the last month, The Beachcomber has been up to our ears, figuratively, in comprehensive plan research.

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How a jazz guy turned his passion into a gift for his town

On Sunday, the final episode of “The Jazz Guy with Bill Wood” aired on Voice of Vashon.

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Editorial: We decide who belongs here

It’s less about what we say and more about what we do.

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Brooks Fahy in Oregon,1987, holds three coyote pups orphaned by a government trapper. They were ultimately released successfully into the wild.

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The island’s coyotes are friends, not foes

Rumor has it that coyotes are wreaking havoc on Vashon’s domestic cat population and other animals.