Thanks to two Vashon businesses, Islanders have donated more than $13,000 to aid organizations in Haiti. Bob’s Bakery held fundraisers…
Two members of the Vashon-Maury Island Community Council’s nine-member board — Allison Shirk and Ian Burke — have just resigned,…
A stroll through the Village Green on a sunny Saturday is a peek into the bounty of Vashon Island’s farms and artisans. Plant starts share shelf space with fruit and flowers, while handcrafted candles, cutting boards and chocolates are displayed a few steps away.
Two divers who explored the submerged floor of inner Quartermaster Harbor last week were pleased with what they found — flat, featureless muck. Or as ecologist Brian Allen put it, “A whole lot of nothing.”
Two businessmen have purchased and begun prepping a 45-acre property on Vashon’s west side for development — a project, they say, that will preserve habitat and build community by setting aside 30 acres as commonly owned forestland.
Someone broke into The Little House last week but apparently took only loose change, owner Bettie Edwards reported.
As the sun hung low on the horizon, a small Boston Whaler plied the waters of Quartermaster Harbor last week, crammed with scientists and students trying to unravel a mystery.
They stopped at regular intervals along the way, dropping instruments overboard that measured the water’s salinity, its temperature, its turbidity, the amount of dissolved oxygen and its nutrient load. Used to the routine, they bantered easily among themselves, including many cracks about the pizza they hoped to eat that night, after they got in out of the winter chill.
But their quest was serious. Research five years ago showed that Quartermaster Harbor hosts the highest concentration in all of Puget Sound of an alga that causes paralytic shellfish poisoning. Cheryl Greengrove, a physical oceanographer and professor at the University of Washington Tacoma, is determined to find out why.
At Books by the Way, owners Dave and Jenni Wilke have moved shelves, re-arranged books and placed a large table…
A spate of vandalism has hit at least two of Vashon’s parks in recent months, troubling those who steward the…
King County Library System’s top executive visited Vashon on Saturday to urge support for an upcoming ballot proposition.
K2 Sports has begun actively marketing its 180,000-square-foot former manufacturing site on Vashon now that a lawsuit over its zoning change from industrial to commercial has ended in K2’s favor.
A teen girl was sexually assaulted in the middle of the night earlier this month by a man who came into the home she shares with her family on Vashon, according to the King County Sheriff’s Office.
Days after a massive earthquake shook Haiti, Vashon Islanders have rallied behind the small Caribbean island, planning fundraisers and raising thousands of dollars for the people of the ravaged nation.
From concerts to an enormous bake sale at Bob’s Bakery, Vashon residents have thrown their support behind the country where as many as 200,000 people may have been killed by the 7.0 quake that hit on Jan. 12.