WEDNESDAY 25 Stretching dollars A presentation, “Family Budgets in Tight Economic Times,” will be from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday,…
More than 100 people, most of them Vashon Islanders, descended on the State Capitol Wednesday morning to make some noise about the state ferry system.
Residents of various ferry-served communities turned out to hear legislators, activists, businesspeople and community organizers speak.
In a spirited debate last Wednesday over Vashon Island School District’s bond measure, Bob Hennessey contended that the seven-building high school is crowded, substandard and horribly inefficient while Hilary Emmer countered that the district’s proposal amounts to “run-away spending.”
Park officials passed a resolution Feb. 10 stating unequivocally that they want the library to stay put.
Nearly 30 administrators in public education — including superintendents, assistant superintendents and principals from around the region — say they’d like to leave their current posts to helm Vashon’s 1,500-student school district.
A payday loan and pawn shop that will also sell luxury tobacco and snuff is slated to open March 1 at the former site of the 070 Gallery, according to a news release issued last month.
The vision of a small group of people concerned about the future of Washington’s ferries is beginning to come into focus in the form of “Plan C,” an alternative to the long-range proposals put forth by Washington State Ferries. Its preliminary draft was released Monday.
On Feb. 10, the Vashon Park District board unanimously threw its support behind the Island’s upcoming school bond proposal.
The average Vashon property owner will see his or her property taxes increase by nearly 4 percent this year, from an average tax bill of $4,166 to an average bill of $4,328, according to the King County Assessor’s Office.
WEDNESDAY 18 WIC program here The Women, Infants and Children program (WIC) provides free vouchers for nutritious foods as well…
My home is on 10 acres of forest land near the middle of Vashon Island. We use a wood stove that consumes about three cords of firewood each year. Trees around us show tree rings of about half an inch a year. A little arithmetic demonstrates that our forest produces more than 100 cords of new wood annually. In the 25 years we have lived here, we have burned less than the volume of wood provided by one year’s forest growth. That part of our lives, at least, is sustainable.
WEDNESDAY 11 School bond debate A public debate with pro and con presentations and time for questions and answers will…
More than 40 Islanders met for a “stone soup” dinner and discussion of the community’s needs in these difficult economic times on Sunday, Feb. 1. The event was sponsored by Vision for Vashon, a new community group whose members are trying to find ways to help their Island neighbors in these hard times.