Voice of Vashon’s Executive Director Kate Dowling is stepping down from the island radio station at the end of this month.

She’s wrapping up a five-year tenure at VoV in order to care for her aging parents closer to her home in Bellingham, Dowling said. She’ll also be taking on a new role as the capital campaign manager for the Whatcom County Council on Aging, a nonprofit which is building a new senior center in Bellingham.

Dowling and her family moved to the island in 2015, and over her decade on Vashon she’s volunteered at numerous island institutions including the DOVE Project and Vashon Center for The Arts. She was briefly a reporter for The Beachcomber until she was caught in a round of pandemic-induced furloughs at the paper’s parent company Sound Publishing.

Then, on April 1, 202

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