The Vashon School Board voted unanimously at its last meeting to put the capital bond package on the ballot in…
Let’s see, we have 10,000-plus people on Vashon-Maury Island. One hundred or so showed up for the environmental impact statement scoping meetings at Vashon High School, concerning Glacier’s proposed mining expansion on Maury Island. Wow, that looks like 0.015 percent.
I am responding to the article “Beba attendees thrive at integrated camp.” I agree that such a camp serves a…
Theo Krah did the right thing and I commend him for it. His instincts were correct. The individual he told to leave the public pool may not have a criminal record, but he is known for unwelcome, intimidating and, frankly, creepy behavior toward several young women on the Island at establishments other than the athletic club and the public pool.
It was with great sadness that we of Vashon Island Fire and Rescue received the sad news that our friend and brother, firefighter Robert Bennedsen, a graduate of Vashon High School and Seattle University, was killed this weekend in Afganistan.
On Aug. 6, Marion McBride, the regional director for Housing and Urban Development (HUD), will be at Vashon Community Care to discuss funds available for housing our special needs community. (Watch for an article announcing the details of that meeting.)
Ballots for the Aug. 17 primary election will be mailed to us starting July 27, and as Sharon Nelson is running for the state Senate, we will select two candidates to advance to the November election to succeed her in the House of Representatives for the 34th Legislative District.
At 5:39 a.m. July 4, I shut my three-pane windows, sure that the Vashon thunderboats had cancelled due to weather….
Please don’t use styrofoam for flotation. This is what it is doing to our beaches. This picture is of my…
Before Tom Stewart (yes, there was a time before the Mighty Fireworks Show) the evening of Independence Day was filled with the muffled sounds of scattered, home-purchased fireworks, both legal and not-so-legal. The zing of pinwheels, the spinning fire of ground blooms, even the whistle and pop of noise-only fireworks, these were the accompaniment to neighborhood and family picnics.
I would like to respond to the column from Sen. Joe McDermott in the June 30 Beachcomber (“Taxation is in response to global crisis,” June 30).
I was sitting here listening to the Vashon Hum when I got (yet another) unsettling call from Havurat Ee Shalom, where I am the “handyman.” There was another burglary there in the last few days, one of several over the last few years.
For those unable to attend the meeting Wednesday, June 9, in Burien on the SeaTac Part-150 NOISE Study, a report follows.
