Last week, Wanda Moore set up a lawn chair next to the north-end ferry terminal where her latte stand had stood only days before, offering up hugs and farewells instead of double talls and single shorts.
Vashon medical officials saw their first cases of confirmed H1N1 flu last week, indicating that a virus that is sweeping the country has arrived to the Island.
Due to construction at Vashon’s north-end ferry terminal, ferry schedules will be altered during the first two weeks of November on the Vashon-Fauntleroy-Southworth route. Delays are also expected.
One recent Monday as the warm fall day gave way to a chilly evening, several Islanders gathered in the Village Green for a bowl of hot soup and a sandwich, some camaraderie and a bit of medical care.
For years, those running for a spot to oversee the small Vashon Municipal Airport faced no opposition. Now, with the Nov. 3 mail-in election in full swing, the airport commissioners’ race is arguably the most hotly contested and politically charged battle on the Island.
On a recent walk along the sandy shores near Gold Beach, Annie Strandberg counted a dozen sawed-off root masses with raw chainsaw wounds where logs had once been connected.
Islanders will decide by mail-in ballot if Vashon Park District deserves six more years of funding. They are voting on the parks’ proposed maintenance and operations levy, a measure that, if approved, would tax Island property owners up to 50 cents per $1,000 of assessed value each year — up from the district’s historic levy rate of 45 cents per $1,000.
Some residents are concerned about how the King County Sheriff’s Department responded to a complaint that a man offered a 12-year-old girl a ride as she walked from the bus stop to her home last month.
Marty Liebowitz and Bob Powell — contenders for an open seat on the commission that governs King County Water District 19 — seem to have more in common than not.
A King County Superior Court judge on Friday dismissed Tom Bangasser’s far-reaching suit against the county and several other entities for what the Island businessman called the “back-door” way the county rezoned the mammoth K2 building a year ago.
A former Islander whose nonprofit owns the Mukai Farm and Garden, considered one of Vashon’s most historically significant sites, is expected to put the property on the market in the next several days.
seattlepi.com posted a Q&A today with author Michael Chabon about his new collection of essays, “Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures…
A group of 30 civic and philanthropic leaders empaneled by Vashon Allied Arts has endorsed the organization’s feasibility study for a new performance hall, forwarding the report to VAA’s board and staff to determine next steps in the ambitious project.