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Guests got to hold fins and jaws of thresher and sixgill sharks. Photo by Bailey Jo Josie/Sound Publishing.

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Shark in the Park celebrates local sixgills

The 2nd annual Shark in the Park community festival took place over the weekend in Des Moines, complete…

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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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The construction site of Sea Mar’s new two-story clinic in uptown Vashon.

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Sea Mar says Vashon clinic construction is on track

Sea Mar officials said it is on track to complete construction on the new clinic in uptown Vashon…

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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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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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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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King County senior forester Paul Fischer measures a tree in Island Center Forest as crews prepare for a planned thinning project.

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King County’s 45-acre thinning project slated to start this summer

A King County forestry crew gathered in the dappled sunlight near a trail in Island Center Forest last…

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Sea Mar’s new two-story clinic was taking shape in uptown Vashon in April.

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Sea Mar construction site goes quiet

After weeks of little activity at the construction site of Sea Mar’s new clinic in uptown Vashon, questions…

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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…

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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…

Black bear. Photo courtesy of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

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A year and $80k later, a probe of WA fish and wildlife commissioners continues

Gov. Bob Ferguson has been mum on when the results of his investigation will be released.