WEDNESDAY 31 Ballet breakfast The Back Bay Inn will host the Sugar Plum Fairy Breakfast on Dec. 31 as a…
Gov. Christine Gregoire last week released her capital budget, which includes a line item for Vashon Allied Arts to receive $1.115 million to help pay for a multimillion-dollar new facility housing a theater, exhibition space, offices and classrooms.
Sandy Shores, a string of modest homes on the eastern rim of Maury Island, is a refuge for many of its residents, some of whom have saved for years to be able to live in a place perched on the water.
Residents describe it as a close-knit community, separated from the rest of Maury Island by a dramatic madrona-studded forest and a long, steep hill.
Calling Seattle’s proposal to reconfigure Fauntleroy Way S.W. a step towards making it safer and more bicycle-friendly, members of the Vashon Maury Island Community Council voted last week to rescind the council’s letter to the city opposing the road project.
After five years of creating both a navigational and ecological hazard, the 180-foot Cactus Jack — a former U.S. Coast Guard buoy tender illegally moored off the shores of Maury Island — has been seized by King County and towed to a private marina.
The current forecast for Vashon-Maury islands this weekend includes a “winter storm warning” beginning at 4 p.m. Saturday and lasting…
The snow is falling fast on Vashon, and shows no signs of letting up. Roads are slick and drivers are staying off the roads whenever possible.
Graphic novel club meets The Graphic Novel Club meets from 5 to 6 p.m. every third Thursday at Books by…
Laughter class A “Laugh for the Health of It” class will meet from 7 to 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 19,…
WEDNESDAY 17 WIC program New to WIC this month, the program will have a community access worker who can help…
King County Superior Court Judge Palmer Robinson on Thursday denied Preserve Our Islands’ request for an injunction to halt Glacier Northwest’s work on its barge-loading pier off the shores of Maury Island.
The King County Library System hopes to sign a purchase-and-sale agreement this week to buy the former machine shop at the K2 site, the next step in its long-range plans to develop a new library a mile south of town.
A draft audit of Vashon Island Fire & Rescue (VIFR) found the agency had “lax or nonexistent controls in all areas” of its operations and that as a result it placed “public resources at a high risk of loss, misuse or misappropriation.”