Vashon News

A chimney fire on Cemetery Road just west of the McMurray Middle School was quickly quelled Friday morning after dozens of firefighters showed up, the first of them arriving within six minutes, said Vashon Fire Chief Hank Lipe.

Every month, every week, maybe even every day, Islanders serving on commissions and boards step forward to work on our behalf.

This notice just posted by WSDOT- Washington State Ferries The Issaquah is temporarily out of service due to necessary repairs.

What: A reading from his book, "Give, Eat, and Live," a translation of 60 poems by the 12th-century poet Avvaiyar.

Vashon has a long history of military presence. The military's use of the Sunrise Ridge complex began with World War II and did not end until 1984, when the final parts of the "Nike base" became Paradise Ridge Park.

During Saturday night's festivities, Islanders young and old took to the streets of Vashon town in costumes cute, weird and frightful.

Music aficionados will have a tough choice this weekend, with two acclaimed guitar players coming to town for concerts on the same night.

Early returns from Tuesday's mail-in election show political newcomer Steve Ellison, a self-employed ski-core manufacturer, defeating former school board member Jake Jacobovitch for a vacant position on Vashon's five-member school board.

Nannette Cotton Pawlowski spent a day hanging more than 60 colorful drawings and five large quilts at Vashon Community Care Center last week, stopping to chat and dispense hugs to the people who served as muses for her artwork.

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." Just four syllables long, this terse admonishment is a masterpiece of both concision...and confusion.

Water on Vashon, as Islander Donna Klemka pointed out in a recent interview, is the ultimate property right.

The Southworth-Vashon Island-Fauntleroy ferry route will be operating on a revised schedule for the next two weeks while a slip at Vashon is closed for construction.

A high-octane Halloween weekend at Red Bicycle Bistro & Sushi will kick off at 9 p.m. Friday, Oct.

The park board is poised to sign off on a proposed lease between Vashon Park District and King County Library System a 'A a lease that would set the ball rolling on an expansion of the library in Ober Park.

Two feet of snow covered the Island, when suddenly every Vashon resident and business lost power.

The schedules for the Vashon-Fauntleroy-Southworth ferry route will change for two weeks beginning Nov.

For years, those running for a spot to oversee the small Vashon Municipal Airport faced no opposition.

Geese is my name. So say the three blonde Yarkin daughters. We have just met. It's barely August, and the blackberries are in full form.

Bill Riley has waited nearly 30 years for grapes this good. The founder of Maury Island Winery picked his Pinot Noir grapes on Oct.

Some residents are concerned about how the King County Sheriff's Department responded to a complaint that a man offered a 12-year-old girl a ride as she walked from the bus stop to her home last month.