For years, Jiquelite, a remote community in Nicaragua, struggled with a lack of clean water.
The tiny town in a mountainous region of Central America has no running water, and its communal well was in disrepair. Women and girls spent hours each day lugging water from a stream up a steep hill, and because of the work of getting water, many bathed right in their drinking water. People, especially children, were often sick from water-borne illnesses.
Kids go to winter camp Cedarsong Nature School invites all kids ages 6 to 10 to participate in the first…
Senior center fun Islanders are invited to join the folks at the Vashon Senior Center on Bank Road at 10…
WEDNESDAY 10 VMICC meets The Vashon Maury Island Community Council (VMICC) Governance and Policy Committee will meet from 7 to…
More than 50 people showed up a stone’s throw from Glacier Northwest’s construction site on Maury Island early Monday morning in a show of opposition to the corporation’s industrial-sized pier and the mammoth gravel-mining operation it could facilitate
After one of the longest environmental battles in Vashon’s history, Glacier Northwest on Friday afternoon began laying booms in the waters surrounding its aging dock off the eastern rim of Maury Island — the first step in the construction of its controversial, 305-foot pier.
A tentative settlement in Dan McClary’s lawsuit against Water District 19 has been reached, giving the Federal Way developer permission to build a smaller version of his proposed motel but requiring that he undertake several water-conservation measures.
The Vashon Island school board, slated to take a final vote Monday night on its proposed $79 million high school makeover, deferred its decision until next week amid questions about how to potentially lower the costs of the ambitious plan.
The construction of the covered arena at Paradise Ridge Park has been held off for a year while King County Department of Development and Environmental Services processed the project’s permit applications. And in that year, steel and concrete prices skyrocketed, leading to an almost 50 percent increase in the project’s budget and causing some to fear the arena at the 43-acre former Nike missile site would never be constructed.
And now, the arena’s designs are just weeks away from receiving final county approval.
Islanders have been responding in strong numbers to news that the Vashon Maury Community Food Bank is witnessing a significant rise in customers and a decrease in food supplies, the director of the food bank reports.
The Vashon Senior Center has decided to become an affiliate of the Vashon Park District, a move both entities say…
Greens seek diversity The Vashon-Maury Island Green Party’s (VMIGP) monthly meeting (second Tuesday of each month) will be at Joy…
FRIDAY 5 Great Decisions “U.S.-China Economic Relations: Evolving Rivalry” is the topic for the Great Decisions free current events program,…
