Seven Mercer Island School District teams, four teams from the elementary school level and three from Islander Middle School, competed in the regional Destination ImagiNation tournament on March 5.
JR Mitchell doesn’t know how he would react to a child of his being a victim of bullying because he has yet to experience fatherhood. But he knows the damage it can cause to a youngster’s psychological well-being.
Mitchell, a 1995 graduate of Mercer Island High School, spent the past 10 years as a director/editor in Los Angeles, working on shows like “Big Brother,” “Fear Factor” and the promotional campaign for Conan O’Brien’s new show on TBS.
It’s going to be a wild week at Mercer Island High School, March 15, 16 and 17. While seniors will be presenting their culminating projects in 25-minute intervals between 8:15 and 9:30 a.m. each day in various classrooms throughout the school, all sophomores and some juniors and seniors will be taking the High School Proficiency Exams (HSPE) in reading and writing.
Who said cops don’t have a sense of humor? The high-spirited Mercer Island Police Department recognized the efforts of their team on Friday, March 11, during their 2010 employee recognition ceremony.
City Manager Rich Conrad opened the festivities thanking the force for their great work, and the department and their families.
Decisions made in Olympia will force the Mercer Island School District to be even better stewards of the district’s funds.
“Over the next five months, a lot is going to change,” said Dean Mack, the district’s executive director of business services, at the Feb. 24 School Board meeting.
Prices are still lower here for homes and condominiums, but the good news is that activity is holding steady. Prices on single family Island homes fell by more than 40 percent last month from February 2010, but more homes sold or are about to be sold at the end of February 2011, according to the latest statistics from the Northwest Multiple Listing Service.
The last thing people who live on Mercer Island’s South end think about is that they might get a ticket for walking their dog along a city street.
Beer enthusiasts will be flocking to the Roanoke Inn on Monday to get a taste of the elusive Russian River, Calif., “Pliny the Younger” beer.
After 30 years in the same location, Continental Travel of Mercer Island is moving.
With well over 100 years combined in the travel business, the five travel agents at Continental Travel will make a short journey across town to the Chase Bank building at 7900 S.E. 28th Street, Suite 202, just a few blocks from their current location where they have been for 30 years.
Mercer Island musician and resident Daniel Alpern has released his first commercial CD, “A Moment in Time.” The CD consists of 18 original songs in the adult/contemporary/rock genre. Alpern sings, plays all of the instruments and produced the CD.
Besides saving the planet, the attractiveness of electric vehicles has been the idea that you could simply plug it in. But as many drivers have found, powering up your car via the outlet in your garage takes a bit of planning ahead — recharging can take several hours. Now, however, there is at least one alternative way to power up your car more quickly: installing a 240-volt power unit in your home.
Former Islander Matthew Davis attended West Mercer Elementary and Islander Middle School. Now, 21, Davis has been traveling and studying Arabic in the Middle East. He wrote to the Reporter about his experience in Cairo as protesters took to the streets to oust President Hosni Mubarak
Kris Schlik said “she forgot to have kids,” so she takes her nephew, Nigel Schlik, 2, to the weekly parenting education and early learning class, held at Redeemer Lutheran on Mercer Island.
“I’ve learned so much from parent education (this class),” Schlik said. “I’ve learned how to work in harmony with the kids.”
