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56 min ago | Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber

In our opinion: Conserving shoreline

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 ...

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Related Topix: King County, WA, Opinion

Sun Oct 12, 2008

Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber

Classes for every budding artist fill VAAa s fall class roster

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

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Related Topix: Entertainment

Fri Oct 10, 2008

North Sound

Krikawas bring character, wit and beautiful singing to the Blue Heron

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.

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Related Topix: Arts, Opera, Entertainment

Wed Oct 08, 2008

North Sound

Community council races draw too few candidates for election

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.

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Related Topix: King County, WA

Mon Oct 06, 2008

Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber

Clubs and organizations news

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

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Related Topix: Life, Fruits, Food

Sat Oct 04, 2008

Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber

Duo sings American opera

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

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Related Topix: Arts, Opera, Entertainment

Thu Oct 02, 2008

Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber

Vashon Vintage makes everything old new again

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.

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Related Topix: Pike Place Market (Seattle, WA), Seattle, WA

Seattle Times

Belle Baldwin House at Fern Cove on Vashon Island open

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

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Related Topix: Seattle, WA, Seattle Metro, King County, WA

Wed Oct 01, 2008

Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber

Happening: Oct. 1

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.

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Related Topix: Events, King County, WA, Burien, WA, White Center, WA

Mon Sep 29, 2008

Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber

Question of library's location to come before Island voters

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.

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Related Topix: Home Listing, Home, King County, WA

Sat Sep 27, 2008

Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber

Editorial: Bus ridership all year long

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.

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Related Topix: Opinion

Thu Sep 25, 2008

North Sound

VIPP's new adoption center gives cats room to stretch

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, ...

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Related Topix: King County, WA, Animal Rights

Tue Sep 23, 2008

Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber

CLASSES

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

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Related Topix: Home Gardening, Home, Yoga, Fitness

Sun Sep 21, 2008

North Sound

VHS snags national award for high academic achievement

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 ...

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Related Topix: Education Etc., Standardized Testing, Education, Washington

Fri Sep 19, 2008

Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber

Fields of flowers arrive fresh at market

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.

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Wed Sep 17, 2008

Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber

Giving birth to bold ideas about having babies

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.

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Related Topix: Life, Labor Day, Holidays, Entertainment

Mon Sep 15, 2008

Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber

One woman's lifetime of work: Emma Kukors finds joy and friendship at her job at Sawbones

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.

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Sat Sep 13, 2008

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Devouring sEATtle: Raw milk banned from lattes

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.

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Related Topix: King County, WA

Thu Sep 11, 2008

North Sound

Restorative justice is a much more forgiving way to balance the scales

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 ...

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Related Topix: Prison, Opinion

Tue Sep 09, 2008

Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber

Wine barrels the backdrop for Samuel Green's reading

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

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Related Topix: Arts, Poetry

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