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Vashon HealthWatch, the island group that organized a recent community meeting on health care, is inviting Islanders to a follow-up meeting May 30th.

Day of the Horse, is planned for June 1st at Paradise Ridge Park on Vashon Island. Organized by the Vashon Maury Island Horse Association

Sell it! and Buy it! Vashon’s Largest Indoor Flea Market at Open Space for Arts & Community - we are throwing open the Grand Hall doors and inviting Vashon in to sell its wares and hunt for treasure.
 
 

The Salish Sea Early Music Festival presents GIULIANIAD, its final 2013 program featuring works for flute and guitar by Mauro Giuliani

Born in California, but raised across the United States, Cami has a vast array of life experience that permeates her music.

We made it! ZOMBiEZ (or what we’re realizing will forever be known as "the old Dairy Queen") turned one this month. We would like to give a big heart felt "Thank you" to everyone

Community Cinema Vashon’s free monthly screenings and moderated discussions of documentaries from the Emmy Award-winning PBS film series Independent Lens are presented thanks to the generous support of ITVS

Poultry In Motion was formed a few years ago and hangs out at the Coop (The Society for Miscreant Musicians Music Hall on the North End of the Island)

You don’t have to spend a weekend night running in to Seattle just to find a cool place to dance. Now you’ve got your own place to go, club O: Vashon’s own dance club.
 

Reading Amanda’s account of her ordeal in Perugia brings back all of the emotions I, and many others on Vashon, felt after her arrest.

Our dog, Marley, has a condition called cherry eye, a genetic defect in which the "cherries" are actually membranes which are supposed to be under the eyelid, but instead are squeezing out next to it.

Reader Lynn Carrigan asked for more information about herbs, especially as remedies. I see by my clip file that I haven’t touched on their medicinal uses since January.
 

Have you ever wondered what it must have been like to grow up on old Vashon? What was this Island like during World War II? If you didn’t grow up here, what drew a person to move to Vashon Island in the early 1950’s?
 

Vashon Beach Naturalists serve as educators in our community. They offer a variety of programs for individuals and families interested in learning about life on Vashon’s beaches.
 

The global climate pattern we know is a historically stable phenomenon that we take for granted. Huge land, water, and air masses interact with one another in a very finely balanced way to produce the climate patterns that we have counted on for so long.
 

Dear Kids, -- adults you can read this if you want-- The intent of this column is for you to have something to cut out and put in your wallet for when you are feeling like you’ve made the unforgiveable screw up,
 

With a decline in transactions at the Vashon branch and customers increasingly relying on other banking options including mobile and online banking. Bank of America will be closing it's Vashon Island Branch September 20, 2013.

A body believed to be that of a missing Vashon woman was found Wednesday evening in Burton. Searchers found the Searchers found the Searchers found the Searchers found the  Searchers found the  

Two Northwest-based musicians team up for a double bill evening of eclectic music at the Blue Heron Saturday, May 18, 7:30 pm.

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

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

In the last couple columns I’ve dwelt on what’s wrong with our lifestyle and in what ways we need to change, but I didn’t say much about how to get from here to there. You may have thought,

That the teal green thread and the beige thread matched the material I was given to make beanbags for a three year old I love was a wonderful God-incidence. I just grabbed what I could reach as I dashed out for the ferry. 

When oil spill expert and democracy activist Riki Ott learned about the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, she decided to volunteer for one month