The first time Jake Jacobovitch volunteered in Vashon public schools was in 1979, when he dressed up as Santa for Mrs. DeHope’s kindergarten class.
Steve Ellison has been a fixture at nearly every school board meeting for more than two years. Rain or shine, a binder of meeting documents in his lap, he carefully observed the ins and outs of school politics. Now, he’s hoping to officially join the fray.
When Island voters receive their ballots for the Nov. 3 mail-in election this week, they’ll be asked to endorse a three-year, $2.7 million levy to pay for maintenance and technology at Vashon’s three public schools.
A small band of Islanders gathered with candles last Wednesday to mourn the war casualties since the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan eight years ago.
The school district received more than $20,000 in community donations last week — a giant check for $6,775 and a box full of $13,500 in cash and checks.
The first of 10 informative signs was installed in the core of Dockton last week. It outlines the history of…
The Beachcomber has joined the blogosphere. Four blogs written by community members — on sports, gardening, film and Island life — were launched this week on the Beachcomber Web site, and authors have posted on everything from composting, chicken processing and oven-dried tomatoes to superb Pirate soccer and the engaging nature of film.
The Beachcomber brought home seven awards from the Washington Newspaper Publishers’ Association (WNPA) awards ceremony Friday night, including the coveted General Excellence award, given to a paper for its overall journalistic quality.
King County officials are hosting a meeting to find out if Islanders would like a critical stretch of Dockton Road redesigned with an eight-foot-wide sidewalk cantilevered over Tramp Harbor, transformed into a one-way road or decommissioned altogether.
Vashon won’t be seeing a reduction in its police force any time soon — despite remarks made by King County Sheriff Sue Rahr last week suggesting Vashon could lose both of its patrol officers if county budget cuts go through as planned.
Vashon’s only public pool could be one of the casualties in King County’s latest budget crisis.
When Chip Giller’s friends heard he would spend the $100,000 award he just received to start a college fund for his kids, support his online environmental publication and weatherize his 1911 farmhouse, one of them joked an intervention was needed.
If awards were given out for emergency preparedness, Georgia and John Galus would be serious contenders.