The building will be closed, but some of the agency’s services
will remain available
A 7-year-old boy remains at Harborview Medical Center after being hit by a pickup truck Wednesday evening in the Thriftway parking lot.
Nestled in a deep ravine on the northeast shore of Vashon Island is the quiet, difficult-to-access, seldom-visited Wingehaven Park.
Some 70 years after it happened, Mary Matsuda Gruenewald recalls the day her brother left Wyoming’s Heart Mountain War Relocation Center, a concentration camp for Japanese Americans, as one of the saddest times in her family’s life.
Bond was only measure of 13 in county that did not pass
In the ongoing legal dispute over control of the historic Mukai house and garden, the nonprofit group Friends of Mukai will go to court again next week.
School district sees immunizations up
in students overall
In Washington, Republican precinct caucuses are slated for Saturday, Feb. 20.
The Chautauqua Elementary School kindergarten open house will take place from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 1. The kindergarten is shifting to a tuition-free, full-day program next academic year and everyone interested is urged to attend.
A draft outlining the scope of the environmental review to be conducted for a proposed methanol production plant on the Tacoma waterfront reveals a wide-ranging set of variables for the city to consider.
Many islanders have been reaching out to The Beachcomber and island accountants about an IRS phone scam that has been circulating as tax time looms.
A news brief in the Jan. 13 issue of The Beachcomber entitled, “Construction waste no longer accepted at transfer stations” incorrectly reported that the Vashon transfer station was part of a county-wide effort to increase the recycling of construction waste by not accepting large loads of the waste.
Preliminary results of the Proposition 1 election show 53 percent of votes in favor of the $26.9 million school bond, short of the 60 percent supermajority required to pass, according to King County Elections.