In the debate over whether to support an upcoming bond measure that will overhaul Vashon’s worn high school, one question some property owners are struggling with is the potential costs they’ll face as a result. Will property taxes go up only nominally, as the campaign’s Web site suggests? Or will they go up considerably, as some of the measure’s opponents contend? And either way, are there other tangible financial benefits that will strengthen the community, as Hattery says? Or will the Island become an increasingly expensive place to live, a haven for the well-to-do?
In what some are already calling a significant victory for open government, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday that King County’s $124,000 fine for failing to deliver up hundreds of pages of documents to Islander Armen Yousoufian is far too small.
Chinese New Year fun The Vashon Senior Center will celebrate the Chinese New Year on Jan. 26 with games, prizes…
WEDNESDAY 21 WIC program The Women, Infants and Children food program (WIC) provides free vouchers for nutritious foods as well…
Several protesters in kayaks, canoes and other boats took to the waters off of Maury Island Tuesday and Wednesday in an effort to disrupt work at Glacier Northwest’s pier-building site in the final days of the corporation’s construction window.
Court documents suggest volunteer firefighter Lanora Hackett and two other female firefighters at Vashon Island Fire & Rescue (VIFR) were treated hostilely, hazed by their male counterparts and passed over for jobs by an administration that did nothing to alter the department’s all-male culture.
Glacier Northwest is scheduled to halt work today on its 305-foot barge-loading pier after the state denied its request to continue the construction project beyond the closing of the so-called fish window designed to project spawning herring.
The number of off-Island students has grown significantly in just the last few years, from 44 in the 2003-04 academic year to 130 today, he said. According to his analysis, the current population of off-Island students brings to the district $742,500 in state dollars and costs the district about $450,000 — with a net of $190,600 going to the district, he said.
More than 500 people crammed into McMurray Middle School’s multipurpose room — while 300 to 400 were turned away — in what state officials said was the largest public hearing they’ve seen since they began asking ferry-served communities what they think about Washington State Ferries’ draft long-range plan.
The decision to hold what KCLS is calling an “evening of conversation” next Wednesday night came after a meeting last week organized and facilitated by King County Councilman Dow Constantine. Several key Islanders were at the meeting, as were KCLS director Bill Ptacek and members of his board.
The owners of Sound Food have filed a lawsuit against the state seeking more than $500,000 for losses they say resulted from the state’s decision to discontinue their galley service on the state ferry system in 2006.
Sex and love are the topics It’s Youth-Adult Dialogue (YAD) time again. Come one, come, all Feb. 3 to the…
THURSDAY 15 Youth orchestra plays Vashon Youth String Orchestra presents a short concert at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 15, in…