Each year, Vashon Chamber of Commerce bestows an islander or island organization with a very special honor: serving as Grand Marshal of the Strawberry Festival parade. This year, the Chamber has named ...

Revered island author and mythologist Michael Meade will present a free online event, “Finding Unity in a Divided World,” from 6-7:30 p.m. Thursday, July 17. Register and find out more at ...

Student recognized: Eva Cain, a sociology/anthropology major, was named to the spring 2025 Dean’s List at St. Olaf College, which requires maintaining a 3.75 grade point average or higher.

Last week’s article about the retirement of Drama Dock’s artistic director Lisa Peretti said that she would retire at the end of June; it should have said Peretti had retired at the end of June.

Vashon Island Fire & Rescue crews responded to a roaring house fire on Sunday which, unfortunately, resulted in the total loss of the home.

AtWork! has been quietly, and passionately, changing lives on Vashon Island. Invited by King County to expand its services, ...

Harris Levinson, who was widely known and beloved on Vashon for his remarkable work as a teacher, youth mentor and ...

What kind of kids would head back to school during the first days of summer break to joyously spend more time in the school’s ...

My mother-in-law, a defiantly positive person from the hard-luck town Flint, Michigan, used to tell us her favorite newspaper ...

Green Briefs is a regular series of commentaries by eco-leaders on Vashon, presented in The Beachcomber in partnership with ...

King County recently posted signs warning of the impending closure of Dockton Park and Marina’s dock area, including the boat ...

Phil Clapham’s “Desert Island Bookworm” series features interviews with notable islanders about the books they’d take to a ...