The Islander who successfully sued the Vashon fire department for the way she was treated during her attempt to get a job as a firefighter at the agency said she’s glad to have the lawsuit behind her.
In a unanimous vote Tuesday night, the King County Library System’s board of trustees endorsed a plan to keep Vashon’s branch library at its current location in Ober Park.
In a huge pit on the fringes of Vashon’s largest forest, an effort to address what many consider the world’s most pressing ecological challenge is about to unfold.
The Vashon Elementary School gymnasium — a 1919 wood-frame structure slated to be demolished later this year — has been declared one of the most endangered historic structures in the state by the Washington Trust for Historic Preservation.
Islanders, county officials and local conservationists have banded together to help a park on Maury be “more like a park and less like an abandoned mine site,” as one Islander put it.
King County Water District 19, Vashon’s largest water purveyor, is considering a new policy that would allow residential customers to supply both their main residence and a rental unit in their house or on their property with one water share.
For years, Vashon Island School District has been willing to accept as many off-Island students as it can handle.
A case of H1N1 flu was confirmed on Vashon Thursday afternoon, after tests showed that 50-year-old man who was treated at Vashon Health Center last week was carrying the virus, which is sometimes called swine flu.
The King County Library System will not have to apply for a conditional use permit if it builds a new branch or expands its current one at Ober Park, the county’s Department of Development and Environmental Services (DDES) has stated.
Islanders’ words come to life on the stage this week, when “Wake Up: The World’s On Fire” tackles youth substance use through documentary theater — a performance taken almost entirely from first-hand interviews and articles.
Vashon Allied Arts is slated to receive more than $1 million in state funds to help it move forward on its ambitious plans to build an expansive new arts campus — including a state-of-the-art performance hall, exhibition space, classrooms and more.
Some who keep a close eye on the drug scene on Vashon say that black tar heroin, for the first time in recent memory, is being sold on the Island.
The Vashon-Maury Island Land Trust has sold a 30-acre conservation easement in Paradise Valley to King County, ensuring the parcel retains its natural habitat and improving the salmon-spawning capacity of Judd Creek, the land trust announced last week.
