I don’t have one of those newfangled wide-screen televisions. That’s why, lately, you’ll find me sitting on a folding chair on the sidewalk on the south side of Bank Road, opposite Thriftway, taking in the entertainment (FREE!) from that snazzy, new, towering, gi-normous, active video display sign Island Lumber has thoughtfully situated for my viewing pleasure right at the edge of the road. I don’t think I’ve seen anything more spectacular since Cinerama came to my hometown when I was a kid, back in the mid-1800s.
Saludos from El Salvador, where they call me Señorita Carlota. I’m currently in my eighth month of service as a Peace Corps volunteer in a rural health and sanitation program.
By Kate Hunter President Obama has proposed a Dec. 23 deadline for Congress to send him legislation reforming our nation’s…
During the recent campaign for King County executive, Larry Phillips, one of the candidates, expressed his opposition to a countywide tax to fund a ferry district that served only Vashon and West Seattle.
I have followed the tourism issue with great interest and believe I have a sure-fire way to bring in those big beautiful tourist dollars Vashon Island so desperately wants right now. The economy has gone south faster than songbirds in a snowstorm, and times are tougher than two-week old leftover turkey so we need a great marketing plan to save Vashon.
Well, the question remains: “How would we brand ourselves?”
Islanders are buzzing about the recent burglary at Vashon Theatre, when Grinch-like thieves grabbed not only a state-of-the-art professional digital…
It’s easy to take what we have for granted until one reads that there are children on Vashon who have so little that a coat and pair of gloves top their Christmas list.
“They just don’t get Northeast humor,” my friend and fellow New Yorker, Bad Michael, was saying. I’d been grumbling at the coffee stand about the starchiness of a couple of recent letters to the editor about my humor column — the one on road paving.
The other day, my kids and I were watching a video. But it wasn’t a video about Indiana Jones or some other fictional character. It wasn’t Playstation or Wii. It was my oldest child’s Third-Grade Program tape.
When the Vashon Island School District came to voters earlier this year asking them to approve a $75.5 million bond measure, it lacked one critical piece in the political equation: a unified board.