Despite Vashon’s green credentials, the Island is not considered particularly strong when it comes to energy conservation. Chalk it up, at least in part, to the Island’s aging housing stock — a collection of homes built as summer get-aways, with thin walls and large, single-pane windows.
To walk the land with George Singer is to find that nearly everything on his undulating expanse of pasture and forest holds a story.
U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott, calling the nation’s new health care law “the biggest change in social policy since 1930,” told Islanders he’s running for a 12th term in the House because the landmark legislation needs much more work.
The Vashon Island School District has raised $305,000, more than halfway to its ambitious goal of $500,000 by June 30, administrators report.
A cash box containing an estimated $600 in cash and checks was stolen from a popular farm stand on Maury Island Wednesday night or Thursday morning.
Vashon Allied Arts has hired a new deputy director and increased the size of its board in recent months — steps the arts organization is taking to enhance its capacity as it moves forward on plans to build a performing arts center.
Those who know the two women well say that Opal Montague was the gracious one, able to smooth ruffled feathers when the need arose, while Dorothy Johnson was the firebrand, the activist determined to right what she saw as a wrong.
Sen. Patty Murray will honor Vashon’s Sue Nebeker at Murray’s annual Golden Tennis Shoe award luncheon this Friday in Seattle.
An employee of King County’s Marine Division was arrested May 28 for theft of $7,500 in water taxi cash fares over the past two months.
The Vashon Island school board approved a final suite of cuts to its 2010-11 budget Thursday night, agreeing to lay off two janitors, three para-educators and all of the campus monitors.
Several Islanders, contending commercial air traffic noise has gotten worse in recent years, are pushing regional authorities to place a…
Island coffee drinkers now have a chance to brew a good pot of coffee and support activities at the high school with the newly created Pirate Blend from the Vashon Island Coffee Roasterie.
A longtime Islander has been charged with two counts of first-degree rape for assaulting two teen girls — one last January and another in 2003 — both times by allegedly sneaking into the girls’ home while their parents were asleep in another room.