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• Homeowner property taxes on Vashon are down this year — except waterfronts
  Most Vashon homeowners will pay less property tax in 2025 than they did in 2024.

• Happenings | February 6 edition
  Free boating classes, library programs and the opening of a pinball museum.

• Feds fly 110 detained migrants to Washington state, advocacy group says
  Dozens of people sent to a detention center in Tacoma.

• SpiderSense Exposed: What Experts Say About Its Libido-Boosting Ingredients
  In today’s fast-paced world, male sexual health and vitality are often relegated to the background, overshadowed by daily stresses and…

• My Honest Keto ThinX Review: Does It Really Help You Burn Fat Faster?
  In today’s health-conscious world, finding effective solutions for maintaining wellness can be a challenge. With the rise of the ketogenic…

• Time & Again: Tashio Fujioka’s truck comes home
  The surprising story of how Tash’s truck made it home nearly 70 years later.

• VashonBePrepared: Flu and RSV at alert levels
  Advice for preventing the spread of seasonal illnesses, and bird flu.

• LA’s wildfires must spark change in our neck of the woods | Brunell
  The hurricane-force winds fueling fast-moving Southern California wildfires have exasperated firefighters in western states for over a century. They quickly…

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/

Puget Sound Tide Tables 3 Tide tables for Vashon	National Weather Service Doppler Radar and Vashon forecast

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

• Teachers should ask police to search pupils' bags – minister
  Education minister Lynne Neagle will hold a "behaviour summit" to address issues facing schools.

• Swinney warns of ethnic cleansing after Trump Gaza plan
  The first minister says the idea Palestinians should be removed from Gaza is "unacceptable and dangerous".

• Moment tiger and boar rescued from well in India
  Officials say the unlikely pair fell into the water when the tiger was chasing the boar.

• Naga Munchetty: Scammers spread fake nude pictures of me on social media
  BBC presenter Naga Munchetty has seen a fake online post using her image to "scam people out of money".

• Kay Burley retires from Sky News after 36 years
  Burley, 64, was part of the team which launched Sky News in 1989.

• Billionaire and spiritual leader the Aga Khan dies
  The philanthropist and spiritual leader died "peacefully" at the age of 88 in Lisbon, Portugal.

• UK denies it faces paying billions more for Chagos deal
  The Mauritian prime minister had said the renegotiated deal linked payments to inflation.

• Mobile ban in schools not improving grades or behaviour, study suggests
  It is the first study to look at school phone rules, alongside measures of pupil health and education.