News Briefs | August 22 edition - Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber
WEBAug 22, 2024 · Post office hours improve, plus VIFR and Beachcomber news. August 22, 2024 1:30 am. Post Office lobby hours improve. Following the closure of the Vashon Post Office lobby at night and on Sundays to reduce vandalism and theft, some relief is coming to post office customers looking for more flexible hours to pick up their mail.
School district announces leadership changes | Vashon-Maury …
WEBAug 23, 2023 · The Vashon Island School District has announced three key staffing changes in the district. Thomas Elliott. The first is the sudden departure of Thomas Elliott, who for the past six years has served as the director of the district’s LINKS programs, which offer alternative learning programs for homeschooled and other students not attending the district schools.
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Vashon High School Class of 2024 graduates
WEBJun 19, 2024 · It’s official! The class of 2024 tosses their caps in the air to celebrate the end of graduation and their high school careers. (Alex Bruell photo.) Down Vashon Highway, they came — waving to the crowd from boats and flatbeds hitched to balloon-festooned trucks, family sedans, and standing tall in their graduation gowns in the beds of ...
Vashon, Fauntleroy ferry leaders call for improvements at West …
WEBAug 21, 2024 · A joint statement from the Fauntleroy and Vashon ferry organizing communities, released this summer, calls on Washington State Ferries (WSF) to find solutions for traffic headaches at the Fauntleroy ferry dock.
Vashon is hit with mudslides, flooding, high tides
WEBJan 12, 2022 · Vashon is hit with mudslides, flooding, high tides. After the heavy rains of Thursday, Jan. 6, Vashon saw at least four landslides on the following day. (Photos courtesy of John Cornelison (mudslides), Scott Stinson (Quartermaster Drive) and Phil Clapham (Manzanita) Last Friday’s first landslide occurred before dawn just south of …
Updated flu and COVID vaccines are coming this month
WEBSep 7, 2023 · Vashon Pharmacy. Vashon Pharmacy expects to open its online portal to schedule appointments for COVID and flu vaccinations as early as mid-September. Vaccinations for both COVID and flu will be available at the pharmacy for everyone who is age three and older. (Children younger than three may be …
Island Center Homes project still on track for late summer 2024 ...
WEBSep 28, 2023 · Work is well underway as the 40-unit Island Center Homes affordable housing project approaches the halfway mark. The project, located at SW 188th Street and Vashon Highway, had been in a planning, funding development and permitting phase since 2017 before breaking ground in winter 2022.
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Ferry rates changing starting Oct. 1 - Vashon-Maury Island …
WEBOct 4, 2023 · Starting Oct. 1, the general fare for passengers and vehicles increased by 4.25%. (It’ll increase by the same percentage on Oct. 1, 2024, and for the next two years, the multiride discount will increase by 1%.) Meanwhile, a 25% surcharge for single-ticket vehicle fares is ending, because it only applies May 1 through Sept. 30.