It is a dismal set of circumstances, one we have heard more than once over the past 20 years. Between April and June of 1994, approximately 800,000 people were killed in the Rwanda genocide, in just 100 days. But a group of Island families doesn’t want people to forget.
Thursday night’s Mercer Island School Board meeting started off with a party to celebrate the district’s 70th anniversary.
Mercer Island School District will ask voters for funding to purchase land near city hall to move buses away from high school
The new Mercer Island High School drama teacher and theater manager, Daniela Melgar, knew she had some pretty big shoes to fill when she took the job once held by Karen Campbell, who retired last spring.
It’s no secret that the traffic issues at Mercer Island High School in the morning and afternoon, when the school day ends, is nothing short of a dangerous mess.
More than 50 percent fewer home sales closed on Mercer Island last month, compared to October 2010, per the latest statistics from the Northwest MLS.
Mikhail Savvateev believes that everyone deserves to have basic needs such as access to clean water. It would seem logical, but in fact people all over the world suffer every day.
School district, city officials mull keeping pool, sharing bus facilities, new schools.
Bicyclists beware, or be aware there might be tacks on the I-90 bike trail, big enough to cause flat tires or worse.
All The Best Pet Care celebrated Halloween on Friday, Oct. 21, with pet portraits of dogs in Halloween attire.
The home at 3051 84th Ave. S.E. on Mercer Island is not just a home. It is an artistically and historically significant home, said Barb Korducki of Coldwell Banker, who will be representing the home along with her colleague, Kathy Beckes.
Island Park Elementary fifth-grader Faith Cook said her friends at school really don’t believe that she’s a figure skater. After all, there’s not much ice around here. Cook, age 10, competed Oct. 1 in the 2012 Northwest Pacific Regional Figure Skating Championships in Spokane.
It seems like Dave Anderson has been hooked on grilling for a long time. Before he and his wife, Kathy, were married, she bought him a barbecuing cookbook because he already had three Webers. That really got him started.
