Lakeridge first-grade teacher Cathy Dugovich has been honored as Mercer Island’s Teacher of the Year. The news was announced at last Thursday’s School Board meeting before a crowd of smiling Lakeridge children, parents and administrators.
The French-American School of Puget Sound, the only K-5 international school on the Island, is expanding its curriculum and school house to accommodate growing enrollment.
In March, the City of Mercer Island approved a Conditional Use Permit for the school to construct a second 13,886-square-foot story to its existing building.
It’s an overly used cliché that each graduating class is unique. More so that each has its own personality. Needless to say, both are true for the Class of 2008.
Clichés aside, this year’s group of graduating seniors is unique in more than one way. With nearly 380 students, it is the largest senior class to walk the hallways of MIHS in decades. It is the first class in Island history to pilot — and complete — the state-imposed Culminating Project. It is the first class to fulfill three WASL requirements: math, reading and writing. And it is the first class, faced with this heap of academic obstacles, to succeed.
Two Island residents have stepped up to challenge current state Rep. Fred Jarrett by running against him for the vacant Senate seat of the state’s 41st Legislative District. With three candidates running for the position, the race will have a vote in the state’s first Top Two Primary this August.
The Mercer Island School District has been granted $185,000 in state Safety Net funds for its special education program. The money will be used to cover what the district had to pay in 2007-2008 for its “high cost” special education students.
Work will soon restart on a South-end trail along Island Crest Way that came to a halt after several trees were cut down and the project cost and scope changed from the City Council’s original intent.
In the past two weeks, Islanders and community members throughout the Eastside have rallied around the family of Jonathan Stevenson, a 17-year-old who was seriously injured in a motorcycle accident on 111th Street N.E. in Redmond.
This summer, three Islanders will travel to the Democratic Party’s National Convention in Denver, where they are expected to select the first African-American presidential nominee of a major party.
The City Council will consider declaring the city-owned vacant lot located on First Hill a surplus for the second time during its next meeting, possibly changing a public input process that it has promised.
A 22-year-old man from Mercer Island and another from Seattle were cited for possessing marijuana after police investigated their vehicle while in the 7700 block of S.E. 22nd Street around 12:40 a.m. on June 6.
The King County Sheriff’s special-enforcement program that targets parties with minors consuming alcohol made 143 arrests or citations on a variety of charges last Friday and Saturday nights.
The 2008 senior awards breakfast was held last Friday, on the morning of graduation to a packed auditorium of students, faculty, family and friends. The early-morning event, its third year running, celebrated a mix of academic, philanthropic, artistic and athletic student distinctions.
Washington’s economy remains stable amid a national recession due to increasing diversification, a solid export market from globalization and continuing growth among small businesses, Governor Chris Gregoire told over 100 Island Rotary Club members and guests on Tuesday.
