The Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program will be on Vashon today, Aug. 20.
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Voice of Vashon has signed a lease with Heights Water, a private
A spree of vandalism last Tuesday morning left the school district reeling — causing $6,000 in damage and leaving more than 20 windows and doors broken just three weeks before school starts.
St. John Vianney Catholic Church got its safe back last week. It was full of wet checks — and one soggy five-dollar bill.
An environmental consulting business on Bank Road caught fire at 10 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 16 — one of the three biggest fires on the Island in the last year, said Bob Larsen, Vashon Island Fire & Rescue (VIFR) assistant chief.
Last year, Vashon Community Care Center set a new mission for itself: to enrich the individual’s experience of aging on Vashon through creative, collaborative, caring and community-wide services.
From partying at KVI Beach to mailbox bashings along the roads, the Island, some say, seems rowdier than usual this summer, raising concerns about both the quality of life on Vashon and the safety of some of its young people.
Susan Wolf, formerly the volunteer liaison and training secretary for Vashon Island Fire & Rescue (VIFR), was appointed district secretary by the fire department’s commissioners on Tuesday, Aug. 5. She was sworn in by state Rep. Sharon Nelson (D-Maury Island).
A 16-year-old Vashon boy has been arrested for stealing the safe from St. John Vianney Catholic Church, which disappeared July 19 and is now presumed to be under water off the end of the Tramp Harbor dock.
Bob Childs
