The 12th annual Escape from the Rock triathlon will take place Sept. 7, beginning at Luther Burbank Park.
MIFC Etreme wins Mayors Cup
The first game of the 2008 football season on Sept. 5 will be special. Not because of the team’s new coach, the opponent or the action on the field, but for the halftime activities. The Mercer Island High School Hall of Fame will induct six new members during the halftime ceremonies, including four giants of the Islander basketball community and two of the most decorated swimmers in school history.
Former Mercer Island High School boys water polo player and 2005 high school graduate Adam Massmann was selected to be the new boys water polo head coach.
United boys 12U takes Monroe
Shore Club takes water polo title
Bowlds is new manager of MI Coldwell Banker Bain
Sweet potato pies, corn on the cob and barbecued ribs — these items and more are offered by Island Bar B-Q, a new Island business that opened in June. Many of its recipes, from barbecue sauce to pound cake, were created by owner N.L. [Northa] Turner, 62, an Island resident of 15 years.
Fidelity National Title’s new Mercer Island branch is now open in the WaMu Building. Fidelity National Title Group is part of Fidelity National Financial, the largest title insurer in the nation and a Fortune 500 company. Cori Nickerson is the account manager and Sharon Pollock is the assistant account manager, along with Escrow Officer and LPO Christy Roberts and Fidelity’s Chief Title Officer Terry Sarver. Nickerson has been in the title business for 19 years and has earned the distinction of National Achiever Award winner for 10 years.
A technical problem with the Mercer Island School District’s emergency notification Web site, Schoolreport.org, has prevented the district from receiving automated e-mail from the site.
Over the coming weeks, Island students in grades 3 through 10 will be taking the WASL.
About 50 family members, police officers and firefighters honored and recognized the best of the Island’s police department last Wednesday, which named its three Officers of the Year.
State regulators today fined Puget Sound Energy (PSE) $1.25 million for fraudulent natural gas pipeline inspection records spanning a four-year period. The fine is the largest penalty ever imposed by the state on a natural-gas distribution company.
