A “modified lockdown” took place at Islander Middle School and Island Park Elementary last Friday morning in response to news…
A “modified lockdown” took place at Islander Middle School and Island Park Elementary earlier this morning in response to news…
The City Council and city staff reviewed and discussed 19 specific points in the draft Temporary Encampment Ordinance at its annual planning session on Jan. 24, before a 5-2 vote on Feb. 1 approved the ordinance.
Nearly half a dozen cars lined up outside the 77 Central building on 77th Avenue S.E. last Saturday. Unfortunately for the owners of these cars, they were illegally parked in a driving lane. All it took was one confused driver to pull over and set the e-brake, and soon others followed suit. One after the other, until the whole lane was filled.
Last Tuesday’s City Council meeting was a long one.
At the top of the agenda: the much-disputed and long-awaited Temporary Encampment Ordinance, which dictates the legalities behind any temporary encampment — including Tent City 4, the roving homeless camp put on by the nonprofit organization SHARE/WHEEL which spent three months on Mercer Island in 2008 — planning to reside within city boundaries.
The City Council gathered for its annual planning session last week, which covers all manners of business ranging from 2010 budget projections to parking in the Town Center. All seven Councilmembers, along with City Manager Rich Conrad, City Attorney Katie Knight, Mercer Island Police Chief Ed Holmes and other members of the city attended the three-day session, which was held at the community center. A few members of the public also attended.
A 28-year-old Mercer Island man was sentenced to five years in federal prison last week for smuggling drugs across the Peace Arch border in Blaine, Canada. He was entering the United States.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Island resident James DeShawn Riggins was caught last April with 60 pounds of the hallucinogen BZP — which is similar to Ecstacy. U.S. District Judge Richard Jones said the drugs, which resemble colorful children’s vitamins in cartoon characters such as Transformers, the Simpsons and the Flinstones, are targeted at youngsters.
Next to the levies supporting the Mercer Island School District, a quieter levy will appear on the Feb. 9 ballot….
Last Tuesday’s City Council meeting was a long one. At the top of the agenda: the much disputed and long…
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