Vashon News

Talk to the staff at the Vashon-Maury Island Land Trust, and you find that theya TMve been pushing hard for the last few years, working on one small deal after another to take advantage of a remarkable ...

A new series of classes at Vashon Allied Arts will explore the arts of painting, sculpture, pottery, glass, and songwriting.

Last Saturday at the Blue Heron, Jennifer and Andrew Krikawa serenaded Islanders, treating a packed house to a splendid romp through an evening of American opera.

Only nine Islanders have chosen to run for the nine seats on the Vashon-Maury Island Community Council's executive board, forcing the citizen-run group to cancel this fall's election.

Enjoy Italian feast Saturday St. John Vianney's annual Italian Dinner is set for 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Oct.

Vashon duo Jennifer and Andrew Krikawa perform scenes from American operas as part of Vashon Allied Arts' New Works 2008 series.

Behind the Vashon Wine Shop, Islander Mathilda Oldham has transformed an old garage into Vashon Vintage, a colorful store where Islanders can find updated, not-so-new items for their homes.

Former Vashon islanders Penny and John Talericho of Phoenix stayed in the Belle Baldwin House during their grandson's wedding in early September.

Take a solar tour A solar tour will be held on Saturday, Oct. 4. Islanders can pick up a self-guided tour map at the tour's "kickoff location" - ' 13129 S.W. 248th St.

Islanders can let King County officials know if they want the Vashon Library to remain at Ober Park or move to the K2 site when they cast ballots in the Vashon Maury Island Community Council election this fall.

As PTSA President Denise Katz points out in her column this week, the Vashon Island School District needs Island kids to ride the bus next week.

Vashon Island Pet Protectors realized a longtime goal to provide better, more permanent housing to cats awaiting adoption when its newly remodeled adoption center hosted its first Adopt-a-Cat Day Saturday, ...

Swing Set Music and Movement will start for the fall Thursday, Sept. 18, and run through Nov.

Students cheered wildly on Friday as Vashon High School Principal Susan Hanson delivered the news: Their school had just won a prestigious, national award because of their high performances last year on ...

On a quarter acre of land on S.W. 156th Street just behind the Vashon Winery, Richard Odell tends Fieldstone Flowers' rambunctious rows of hundreds of dahlia blooms.

The agony and the ecstasy of childbirth will be celebrated on Vashon during several arts and community events coming to the Island Saturday and Sunday, Sept.

Emma Kukors, 86, makes knees. For 23 years, the Latvian immigrant has come to Sawbones five days a weeks to fit together femurs and tibias, with ligaments made of nylon, tubes or cords.

It's legal to sell raw milk in Washington state, provided you follow state regulations on the product, but it's apparently not OK to sell raw milk lattes.

In a letter to The Beachcomber, Rev. Dan Houston of the Vashon Presbyterian Church asks us Islanders to consider the issues of forgiveness and justice, having worked with his congregation through the pain of ...

Samuel Green, Washing-ton state's first poet laureate, will read poetry at Vashon Winery at 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept.