The Vashon-Maury Island Community Council is looking for a new place to hold its meetings after learning from Courthouse Square manager Tom Bangasser that the group will have to begin paying a fee to meet at the popular building on Vashon Highway.
Stephen Holtz got so lost the first time he rode his horse in Island Center Forest that he didn’t know where he was, he said, “until I hit the chain-link fence around the dump.”
Islanders started lining up at 4 p.m. outside Vashon Theatre last week, eager to snag tickets for the Seattle International…
King County’s newly approved budget contains $75,000 to facilitate the transfer of the county-owned Vashon pool to the Vashon Park District and nearly $1 million to support ongoing conservation work along Vashon’s eastern shore and Judd Creek.
Renowned cartoonist, author and illustrator Berkeley Breathed will bring his most famous book to life on Saturday when he reads “Red Ranger Came Calling” while larger-than-life illustrations and a musical score accompany his narration.
After a round of negotiations with its insurance pool, Vashon Island Fire & Rescue is expected to pay $250,000 — rather than $751,000 — to cover the costs of a judgment from a gender discrimination lawsuit the department lost last year.
Eleven King County residents — including two Vashon Islanders — have filed to take newly elected County Executive Dow Constantine’s seat on the nine-member county council.
Wet Whiskers, a pet grooming business located inside Pandora’s Box, was burglarized last week.
Vashon will soon become a Mecca for electric cars and their owners, if a group of enthusiastic Islanders has its…
With the increase of Spanish-speaking people on Vashon, three staff members from Vashon Library have begun learning Spanish so they…
Operation Quilt Drop, a recent benefit for American Hero Quilts, which sends quilts to wounded military personnel and their bereaved loved ones, netted more than $10,000, according to Sue Nebeker, who began the project when the Iraq war started.
Staff to the state Utilities and Transportation Commission (UTC) have urged the three-person panel to reject most of a proposed rate increase for Puget Sound Energy’s electric and natural-gas customers.
Vashon Theatre was burglarized over the weekend, losing nearly $10,000 worth of equipment — including a projector and two high-definition DVD players.