The Vashon Loop

• Night Light Drive-In Returns
  The drive-in movies return to Vashon! Open Space for Arts and Community and Vashon Theatre have teamed up for the return of the Night Light Drive-In. Movies for all ages begin on Memorial Day weekend on the Great Lawn at Open Space. Showings are weekly and run through the first weekend in October, most weekends […]

• Mukai 2nd Annual Haiku Festival Winners
  This year’s second annual Mukai Farm & Garden Haiku Festival on Vashon Island drew nearly 400 entries, mostly from Vashon Island but also from as far away as Poland and Croatia.  “We are very awed and grateful for the number and quality of haiku poems that came to us from throughout the world,” said Rita […]

• Naked! Wild! And in Trouble Again.
  The root of the bracken fern is black and hard, ideal for a spear in our war in the field across Cove Road.  I’m not sure if it was our property or not, as our spring was further up the hill.  Every year after winter, my job was to clean out the dead rats, even […]

• The Nuclear Family
  December, 1943: Mom and Dad were on their way to Dad’s first duty station in Galveston, Texas, when they took a little detour to Dalhart to have the ceremony performed. After all, there was a war on and if the Army had felt that the happy couple needed a honeymoon one would have been issued […]

• Unscripted – VALISE Artists Fill the Gallery in June
  VALISE Gallery presents Unscripted, an exhibit of VALISE artists working independently to fill the gallery with their latest wild creations, including rhinos, aliens, and a Kaaaat!. Bill Jarcho explores a series of animated-esque animal sculptures like Kaaaat! As well as a 3-D box called Alien Love. “I’m excited about making sculptures again, getting back to […]

• What Do You Do with an Artichoke?
  In the Eiffel Tower near the bank of the River Seine, in the summer of 1957, I ate my first artichoke ever. It came to the table with a little bowl of melted butter and fresh lemon juice. Delicious and exotic! Our artichokes and their dipping sauce cost our family a dollar a serving, an […]

• Throw-away Culture
  While working at the most recent Fixit Café at the Eagles on Saturday, I was presented with a newer vacuum cleaner with a faulty filter casing.  The casing would come loose during operation and the unfiltered material would get ejected back into the room.  As I explored the innards, I came upon an outer filter […]

• The Big Lie- Pt. II
  It has been what, almost six months now since we’ve had a self-serving liar in the White House? And yet, almost every time I hear mention of the term ‘the president’ being used in the news, it takes me a while to climb out of my bunker and unfurl from my emotional safe place and […]

• The Sky and Eye
  “Lift that cigar higher and take a big draw!” I said to Seán as we sat out on his Indian Point deck, waiting for the late April ‘pink’ super-moon to rise.  His glowing cigar tip would look just like the moon images we saw as kids in homemade telescopes from ‘Things of Science’ or ‘Edmonds’ […]

Vashon Beachcomber

• Car review: 2021 Mercedes AMG E63 S sedan
  Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber – Your local homepage. By Larry Lark, contributor Car review: 2021 Mercedes AMG E63 S sedan Wire Service

• Car review: 2021 Mazda3 Premium Plus
  Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber – Your local homepage. By Larry Lark, contributor Car review: 2021 Mazda3 Premium Plus Wire Service

• Car review: 2021 Toyota 4Runner 4×4 Trail Special Edition
  Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber – Your local homepage. By Larry Lark, contributor Car review: 2021 Toyota 4Runner 4×4 Trail Special Edition Wire Service

• Thoughts and prayers just aren’t enough | Roegner
  Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber – Your local homepage. The violence must stop. And our elected officials have the ability to stop it. Thoughts and prayers just aren’t enough | Roegner Bob Roegner

• Upwellness Golden Revive Plus Reviews – Does It Really Work?
  Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber – Your local homepage. Doctors know that many people are desperate to relieve themselves from the misery caused by joint and muscle pain. Upwellness Golden Revive Plus, by Dr. Joshua Lev …

• News Briefs
  Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber – Your local homepage. No fireworks over Quartmaster again this year, Take-Out Hunger campaign now underway News Briefs Wire Service

• Beloved School Nurse Caps Career with Pandemic Response
  Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber – Your local homepage. The past 15 months have put her to the test like no other. Beloved School Nurse Caps Career with Pandemic Response Wire Service

• 2020-2021 School Year Finishes Strong
  Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber – Your local homepage. It’s really all about doing whatever it takes to meet the needs of our students. 2020-2021 School Year Finishes Strong Wire Service

Find out when School Schedules change due to weather

Direct link to the Vashon School District Emergency Information – Snow/Weather Schedule changes page can be found here. http://flashalert.net/news.html?id=4288

Stay updated on most King County Schools here: Public Schools Emergency Communication System. www.schoolreport.org

South Sound and Kitsap School information can be found here: www.pugetinfo.net/

Extended Forcast and more Current Weather Conditions on the New Weather Page

Vashon Be Prepared – Voice of Vashon – Update

Whenever something happens that you need to know about, we’ll get it out there for you. Stay tuned, Stay warm, stay safe, and stay tuned to VoV Standing By at 1650 am on your AM radio dial.

Do you know what to do? What would you do if your home were damaged so bad you could not stay there? How would you cope with the power being out for seven days or longer? How would you help your neighbor? Making sure that not only you are ready but so will your pets. www.VashonBePrepared.org

BBC News

• Covid: Brazil hits 500,000 deaths amid 'critical' situation
  Experts warn the outbreak could worsen amid a slow vaccination programme and the start of winter.

• Was England's enthralling draw against India the perfect advert for women's Tests?
  After England's gripping draw against India, BBC Sport looks at the key moments – and why it was a perfect advert for Test cricket.

• Iran election: Israel voices 'grave concern' over Ebrahim Raisi
  Israel says Ebrahim Raisi has nuclear ambitions and is Iran's most extremist president yet.

• Gold coins lost in Black Death confusion found in Reepham
  Hardly any of the leopard coins from 1344 have survived, an expert says.

• DUP leadership: Donaldson favourite as nominations open
  Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has made it clear he intends to lead the party from Stormont as first minister.

• Are Spurs back to square one in search for new manager?
  All eyes might be on Euro 2020, but Tottenham's managerial search is also serving up plenty of drama.

• Former Speaker and Conservative MP John Bercow joins Labour
  He says he shares Labour's values and that the government "needs to be replaced".

• The papers: Fight against more lockdowns and Bercow joins Labour
  An attempt to limit any further Covid restrictions is among a range of stories on the front pages.