The tomato, 2,000 miles north and 15 degrees south of its native home, often balks at growing well around Puget Sound.
A liquor store is slated to move into the heart of Vashon’s downtown core, displacing both the John L. Scott office and Eyeland Optical, two businesses that now occupy the 1920 brick building next to The Hardware Store Restaurant.
The nearly one-mile stretch of King County roadway that hugs Tramp Harbor is a vexing dilemma to those who pay attention to such things.
The Vashon Island Fire & Rescue board, weighing an appeal on a court decision that could leave the taxpayer on the hook for $750,000, got more than an hour of advice last week when it turned to the community for input.
The Vashon Maury Community Food Bank won a $5,000 award from Food Lifeline for creating a way for its clients to sign up for subsidized health insurance and other services while stocking up on goods at the small food bank at Sunrise Ridge.
Vashon High School students interested in crime scene investigation, law enforcement or security can get a jump start on their careers this fall by taking a criminal justice class that is being offered on the Island for the first time.
The H1N1 flu virus is proving to be less worrisome than feared initially, and Vashon’s health care providers and the Vashon Island School District are acting accordingly.
A 62-year-old Vashon man was found dead near a trail in the Maury Island Regional Marine Park Wednesday afternoon.
Two Islanders working to develop the former K2 site into a commercial and community hub have approached school district officials with an offer — a state-of-the-art, fully developed high school at the site for $48 million.
Cafeteria food, the under-appreciated cuisine of public schools far and wide, is also the fare of this year’s PTSA Auction. Lunch ladies, gloves and all, will serve auctiongoers their dinners — on genuine Vashon High School cafeteria trays — at the Saturday event.
Thanks to a recent grant, people who receive food stamps will be able to shop at Vashon’s thriving Farmers Market beginning this weekend.
Many Islanders will see something special in the larger-than-life mural that now adorns the north side of the U.S. Bank building.
Fourteen years ago, Sylvia Matlock and Ross Johnson transformed a sprawling jumble of blackberries into an artful nursery — where today a bounty of plants is interspersed among tiled birdbaths, colorful pots and the tiny purple building that houses their office.