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One of the first things you notice when you come to Vashon Island — especially if you’re tailing behind some native in the traffic crawling up the long hill from the ferry — is the car decal that warns: “Keep Vashon weird.”
By Susan Hanson and Michael Soltman For The Beachcomber Regarding the current controversy over the form of dancing at Vashon…
In the last few years, we’ve seen a number of businesses bite the dust. They come and go, like the…
As both a parent and a journalist, I’ve heard tales over the past couple of years about the kind of dancing that occurs at Vashon High School.
Middle school. Those two words alone are enough to strike fear in the hearts of mortal women everywhere. It was…
In a typical community, a nonprofit organization has little obligation to consult the broader populace before launching a fundraising campaign for a big project. Nonprofits certainly hold the public trust; but they’re privately run. They answer to their donors and their board members, people who, in the best of circumstances, know the pulse of their community.
The Vashon Park District turned 25 years old this year. The Island’s rural setting is enhanced greatly by our 18 parks that are all maintained and operated with the Vashon Park District (VPD) maintenance and operations (M&O) levy.
Three hundred fifty parts per million has become the magic number in climate circles, signifying the safe limit of CO2 in our atmosphere. Experts, from former Vice President Al Gore to Rajendra Pachauri, the United Nations’ top climate scientist, have embraced this goal to stabilize the planet and prevent untoward disaster. Now the trick is to convince our leaders to craft policies that will put the world on track to get back to 350ppm. We are currently at 387, and are hurling headlong in the wrong direction!
I don’t know much about paving, but columnist Will North evidently knows even less!
Geese is my name. So say the three blonde Yarkin daughters. We have just met.
It is not news to most of us that the State of Washington does not fully fund the operation of public K-12 schools in Washington. The state has an even smaller role in building and renovating public school buildings.
I urge you to be progressive, not regressive, by voting to approve Referendum 71. Be sure to mark the “yes” box.
