By Mira Zike, Social Media & Distribution Editor In the upcoming months, Vashon Center for the Arts (VCA) will be holding auditions for their annual Original Works performance. In case you haven’t heard of this island tradition, dancers — sometimes accompanied by added talents such as live music, visual design and poetry — choreograph an…
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It floats above its genre
By Calder Stenn, Editor-in-Chief During Andy Muschietti’s film adaptation of Stephen King’s novel It, you’ll float too, but not in the same way Pennywise the Dancing Clown (Bill Skarsgård) makes his child victims float. While Pennywise disappears innocent children into his fortress below the Barrens — the fictional town of Derry’s version of…
Upcoming sports preview: Team openings show a mixed bag
Katherine Kelly, Managing Editor Just as students are back in school and getting into the swing of things, sports are starting back up. The school offers six fall sports: football, fall cheer, boys tennis, volleyball, boys cross country and girls cross country. The football team is off to a bumpy start, losing their…
Parents, school team up to improve racial equity
Mari Kanagy, Reporter Since spring of last year, local community members have been actively working with the Parents and Friends for Racial Equity Committee (PFREC) to improve racial equity on Vashon. In March of 2016, PFREC requested a meeting with Superintendent Michael Soltman. “We had many questions for him and expressed [our]…
New program on island trains bystanders in intervention
By Marisa McTighe, Assistant Social Media and Distribution Editor, Elizabeth Lande and Mari Kanagy, Reporters For the past few months, the Vashon DoVE Project has been working to broaden their impact on the Vashon community. Earlier this year they launched a program called Green Dot. “[Green Dot is] a national movement that promotes education…
OP-ED: Ferries be Humble. Sit Down but Only in a Designated Area
By Ava Bostock, freelance reporter As a perpetually tired and overworked high school student who has been commuting for almost six years, I crave any moment of tranquility that I can get. I used to look forward to riding the boat back to Seattle after an exhausting day at school. Getting on the…
Food, Mood and Sicilitude: Sicilian cuisine in 1,105 words
By Sasha Elenko, Food Columnist Lufthansa treats their customers well. On my connecting flight LH1964 from Munich to the Sicilian city of Catania this past summer, I remember being offered something like a pasta marinara casserole. I asked the flight attendant if it was free, and she responded by laughing at my now-apparent naïveté…
Teachers offer new classes and clubs
By Bernadette Hoover, Reporter This year, the school is offering five new classes — Truth Through Memoir, Introduction to Calculus, AP Comparative Government, Concepts in Chemistry and Forensics — and one new club — Croquet. Truth Through Memoir: Truth Through Memoir is taught by Steven Denlinger. Students will be reading excerpts from…
Neighborcare Comes to VHS
By Aidan McCann and Kadin Oliva, Reporters Neighborcare may have only opened its Vashon clinic a year ago, but it now has a separate clinic here at VHS with a fully licensed nurse practitioner. Neighborcare will have the ability to give physical checkups, birth control and necessary medications to students in need. Families…
“The Never Story” Shows J.I.D Never Disappoints
By Giacomo Kuzma, Hip-hop/Rap Columnist Emcee J.I.D’s debut album “The Never Story” was released March 10, 2017 via Dreamville Records. It’s October now, but “The Never Story” proved to be such a good album that it needs some recognition. J.I.D has been active since 2010, working closely with his fellow members of the…