Each fall, only 35 students are accepted into the University of Washington’s Academy Program, a group of young, gifted academics. Two are from Mercer Island this year.
There are a total of 135 residential and condominium listings on Mercer Island. That’s down by 36.32 percent from a year ago. Of those properties, 117 are single family residences and 18 are condominiums. It is interesting to note that the 33 new listings that came on the market last month were all single family homes; not one new condo listing came on the market.
Mercer Island High School principal John Harrison announced Oct. 4 that he will be stepping down to take a position with the Bellevue School District, after six years at MIHS. His last day at MIHS is Oct. 13. MIHS is his fourth school as a principal, and fifth as an administrator.
The 21st Century Planning Committee, volunteers charged by the Mercer Island School District Board of Directors to come up with a plan to replace the Island’s aging schools, made their recommendation to the board on Thursday night at a special public meeting.
They’ve been there for us since 1775, when Benjamin Franklin was appointed the first postmaster general. Through rain, sleet, snow or draught, letter carriers with the United States Postal Service have kept us connected to the outside world.
If you haven’t visited the Youth and Family Services Thrift Store lately, you will notice some changes, particularly upstairs.
Holding the attention of kindergarten through fifth-grade kids can be a challenge. But what if an important issue is presented as a musical, with familiar faces in the cast?
After reading the story in the Reporter’s Aug. 31 issue about the Daybreak Middle School marching band in Battle Ground, Wash., Islander Bruce Florsheim wanted to help the fledgling band. So, he sent them an unsolicited donation.
Josh Johnson was on his normal evening run, the same route he has been running three or four days a week for the past three months, a trail off of S.E. 54th Street east of Island Park Elementary.
Dr. Cheryl Hayes specializes in physical medicine and rehabilitation, the medical specialty concerned with diagnosing, evaluating and treating patients with physical disabilities. It took two years to plan, but Hayes and her husband Leo Catallo, son Matt Catallo, and three other young men, Brian Sedlacek, Carlos Barrios and Sam Mildeberger, recently returned from a medical mission in Peru.
Remarking that a three-year contract is a “little out of the norm,” by superintendent of the Mercer Island School District, Gary Plano, the MISD Board of Directors, voted unanimously to approve the new contract with the Mercer Island Education Association at Thursday night’s regularly scheduled meeting. The new contract is valid until Aug. 31, 2014.
Real estate inventory is down on Mercer Island, as is the case in most of King County, but the median price shot up from a year ago as well as from a month ago.
It’s not every day that a truck crashes into a home on a quiet residential street, but that’s exactly what happened on Thursday when a Servpro truck rolled down 77th Avenue S.E. into Gertrude Hollis’s home.
