After weeks of internal discussion, the Puget Sound Zen Center has decided it would like to buy the Mukai House and Garden, a property it hopes to steward as both a historic site and a regional center for Zen Buddhism.
A beloved Island eatery that flourished for 15 years before closing in 2006 will soon reopen in its former space in town.
Dockton Road will be closed weeknights beginning Nov. 30, as crews attach steel anchors to rotting portions of the seawall in an effort to prevent the road from failing.
Vashon Island Fire & Rescue, which hasn’t seen an increase in its paid firefighting ranks since it hired its first firefighters in 2001, will add a ninth firefighter in 2010 if the commissioners approve Chief Hank Lipe’s proposed budget.
Senior Connor Barnes doesn’t have to catch a bus at 7 a.m. to get to school by 7:45. His earliest class is at 12:10 p.m., and he can do most of his schoolwork from home.
For decades, the Rosser family has lived next door to property owned by the Vashon Island School District — and for decades, the relationship between the two neighbors has been amicable.
More than 50 Islanders gathered last Wednesday to vet the issue of tourism on Vashon, asserting, sometimes hotly, their feelings about the contentious issue.
The Vashon Island school board is expected to vote tonight on a resolution to put a $47.7 million bond measure…
Washington State Ferries is considering altering the Point Defiance-Tahlequah ferry schedule to better match up with bus schedules and increase…
An Islander who captained a Korean-operated fishing vessel in the South Pacific this summer returned from his three-month odyssey armed with accusations that his crew had broken international law.
A routine traffic stop turned into a foot chase and air search on Thursday, Nov. 12, when a driver failed to pull over for a routine traffic stop, then ditched his car at Island Center Forest and fled.
A chimney fire on Cemetery Road just west of the McMurray Middle School was quickly quelled Friday morning after dozens of firefighters showed up, the first of them arriving within six minutes, said Vashon Fire Chief Hank Lipe.