The Mercer Island Education Association tallied their votes Aug. 30, and with a strong 93 percent of yes votes, ratified their new three-year contract with the Mercer Island School District.
Initiated by the legislature in 1990, Running Start is a program intended to provide public high school students with the option to attend college while still in high school. Students can earn high school and college/university credits at the same time.
The sun came out on Tuesday just as auctioneer Lanny Thomas with J.P. King Auction Company began the official auction at the residence of David and Becky Sandwith, located at 4137 Boulevard Place.
The Mercer Island Education Association tallied their votes August 30, and with a strong 93 percent of yes votes, ratified their new three-year contract with the Mercer Island School District.
A new marching band in the Vancouver area needed uniforms. Their colors are maroon and white. The Mercer Island High School band just happened to have some left over.
Spectacular scenery, the wind in their faces and time to get lost in their own thoughts, were just a few of the benefits three members of the “Mercer Island Retired Ones” (MIRO) motorcycle group gained on a seven-day ride earlier this month.
No doubt you’ve seen the sculpture of a bicycle and a cello on Island Crest Way at 82nd Avenue S.E. and maybe wondered what that’s all about.
Jennifer Argraves and her husband, Louis Sukovaty, are both engineers by trade. When they started their small family farm in the Methow Valley, the idea was to have a farm for themselves to feed their own family.
Mercer Island High School senior, Ian Munro, will be splitting his last year of high school between MIHS and Newport High School. Why?
Protestors gathered on Thursday morning on the corner of 78th Avenue S.E. and S.E. 28th Street.
The word is out that Alpenland Delicatessen and Restaurant, a venerable Mercer Island institution, is for sale.
Julie Gardner and her husband, Joe Salvo, of Mercer Island have lived adventurous lives, working in the foreign service in far-away and exotic locations.
Volunteers started working last Wednesday on the new Early Learning Garden at the Mercer Island Library, to have it done by Saturday, in time for an opening at 3 p.m. The event included a story time and musical performance by Nancy Stewart.
