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    Granny’s Attic Executive Director Brian Vescovi holds up a bracelet recently donated to the thrift store that carries names and dates of more than a dozen loved ones. (Alex Bruell photo)
    Can you solve this Granny’s Attic mystery?
    By Alex Bruell • March 26, 2025 12:30 pm

    The thrift store hopes to find the owner of this bracelet.

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    Dow Constantine. COURTESY PHOTO
    Board recommends Dow Constantine as new Sound Transit...
    By Steve Hunter • March 24, 2025 4:11 pm

    In his 16th year as King County executive and on the Sound Transit Board; pay could be $675,000 annually

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Timothy Stapleton
    Vashon Park District hires Tim Stapleton as new...
    By Alex Bruell • March 20, 2025 3:30 pm

    New exec has experience in state agencies.

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EOC volunteer Michelle Bates showed off several home emergency water essentials to the EOC drill night participants. Useful items included storage containers and water purification filters.
    VashonBePrepared: Island’s strong COVID response informs plans for...
    March 20, 2025 1:30 pm

    Five years later, what worked on Vashon?

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    Island poet and translator gets rock star treatment...
    By Elizabeth Shepherd • March 19, 2025 9:30 am

    He was recently honored in India with the 2025 Ancient Tamil Literature Promotion Award.

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    Happenings | March 20 edition
    Happenings | March 20 edition
    March 18, 2025 5:30 pm

    Marine property class, mammogram screenings and a care closet giveaway

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Amy Drayer
    Amy Drayer to head Vashon HouseHold
    By Alex Bruell • March 18, 2025 4:30 pm

    Drayer brings a wealth of experience in island nonprofits.

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Hostess and chanteuse Louvel returns this year to host the Vashon Senior Center’s Rainbow BLINGO Spring Fling.
    Happenings | March 27 edition
    March 26, 2025 8:30 pm

    Rainbow Blingo is back

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    What a find! This photo, snapped in Morro, California (on the coast between the Bay Area and Los Angeles) by islander Madeline Yarkin while on a triathlon training ride, shows the intersection of Beachcomber Drive and Vashon Street.
    News Briefs | March 20 edition
    March 18, 2025 6:30 am

    Update on a Chamber of Commerce event, and a familiar-sounding intersection

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    Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Police photo
The Fish and Wildlife department shared this photo of a truck with clams in its bed in a news release about a group of clamdiggers cited for multiple clamming violations. A total of 1,255 clams, weighing 108 pounds, were seized from the group.
    Fish and wildlife police bust Raab’s Lagoon clamdiggers...
    By Beachcomber Staff • March 17, 2025 6:30 pm

    Police say the group had collected more than triple their legal limit.

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    College of Idaho Photo

In 2022, Marie Osborn was joined by her son, John, as she received an honorary doctorate from the College of
Idaho for her contributions to rural healthcare, emergency medicine, and medical education.
    With his mother, islander pens a gripping memoir
    By Elizabeth Shepherd • March 12, 2025 2:30 pm

    John Osborn will read from his new book on Friday at the Land Trust Building.

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Jeremy Su stands next to the shea nut roaster BDL recently designed. On the shelves behind him are many many of BDL's household stoves.
    Burn Design Lab faces a new world with...
    By Leslie Brown For The Beachcomber • March 12, 2025 11:30 am

    At age 27, Jeremy Su takes on the executive director job at an auspicious, if challenging, time.

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    Haiku Festival will return to Mukai Farm Garden
    By Elizabeth Shepherd • March 12, 2025 10:30 am

    Calling all island poets for the beloved contest and event.

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