Vashon News

The Vashon Schools Foundation has extended its fundraising deadline, hoping to raise at least $100,000 more in order to stave off painful cuts at the school district.

Vashon leaders, stunned by the recent death of a 2010 Vashon High School graduate, the fourth such tragedy in recent months, have organized an event they say they hope will help the community heal.

With a decline in transactions and customers increasingly relying on other banking options including mobile and online banking.

The sport spot shrimp fishery in Puget Sound and Hood Canal got off to a very good start on Saturday and Wednesday with many pulling up their limit of tasty, prized prawn-sized shrimp.

This spring and summer the state and county will work together to try to rid Quartermaster Harbor of a small population of people who live illegally on their boats.

Vashon Opera's production of two one-act operas by Giacomo Puccini will bring both tragedy and comedy to the stage of Bethel Church next weekend.

One of the best and most amazing arts sales on the Island happens at Vashon Allied Arts Gallery Memorial weekend, May 24 26.

Cinderella, the overworked and under-appreciated heroine who becomes the Royal Prince's obsession, takes the stage at Vashon High School for a week-end production by the dancers of Vashon Dance Academy, May 17-19. Performances run Friday and Saturday evening at 7:30 PM and Saturday and Sunday matinee at 1:30 PM.

The Maasai Children's Initiative and Woman's Way Red Lodge, two nonprofits with local ties to Vashon, are bringing the groundbreaking film "Girl Rising" to the Vashon Theatre for a one-night screening, Tuesday, May 7th, at 6 PM.

Take mom out for a night on the town! "The Mother of All Shows", IsleWilde's annual variety show, will take place on Mother's Day Eve, Saturday, May 11th, 8:00Pm, at The Red Bicycle Bistro and sushi.

Paco Rollins, center, and his cohorts at Sea Change Tattoo Parlor, Casey Buxton, Laura Rollins and James Clapperton, will welcome visitors to their shop's new location, which opens Friday.

With a deadline to complete the current phase of the Vashon Fields Project and receive state grant money just weeks away, a professional construction manager told Vashon Park District officials last week that the remaining work exceeds what volunteers can reasonably be expected to complete.

The organization's website says the property on 107th Ave. will be open for cherry blossom viewing from noon to 6 p.m. Saturday, May 4, through Saturday, May 11.

A janitor at the Vashon Library has been charged with sexual assault after allegedly groping another man at the library earlier this month.

The Hardware Store Restaurant will show Pam Ingalls' latest portrait show, "Facing Kenya: Maasai Portraits from Mara Hills Academy." The show - part of the Vashon Island Art Studio Tour - features portraits of people associated with two schools for girls that are funded by the Maasai Children's Initiative , a Vashon-based nonprofit.

One note for starters today, if you are headed for the Fauntleroy-Vashon-Southworth ferry - the Klahowya is still expected to remain out of service until at least this evening.

Looking for a novel Mother's Day gift? A great way to spend the day? Some time off? A complement to the Art Tour? The chance to meet other women and girls? Then join us! Hestia Retreat, a nonprofit 501 organization, is developing a women's wellness sanctuary on our beautiful island .

WSB'er JayDee asked about a long ferry-wait line near Lincoln Park - from Washington State Ferries , here's the reason why: The Klahowya is out of service due to necessary repairs to the vessel.

Questions and answers, explanations and doubts, were rampant and loud as more than 200 islanders gathered at McMurray Middle School on Thursday, April 26, to hear about the intent of the new ownership of the Vashon Health Center.

A janitor at the Vashon Library has been charged with sexual assault after allegedly groping another man at the library earlier this month.