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Four Mercer Island families will leave for Rwanda on Dec. 14 to build a classroom at the St. Ignatius School. From left

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Healing in Rwanda

It is a dismal set of circumstances, one we have heard more than once over the past 20…

Former and current school board members got together to celebrate the Mercer Island School District’s 70th anniversary on Nov. 10. Back row

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School district marks 70 years of growth, change

Thursday night’s Mercer Island School Board meeting started off with a party to celebrate the district’s 70th anniversary.

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School district is ready to buy land

Mercer Island School District will ask voters for funding to purchase land near city hall to move buses…

The fairies sing a lullaby to the queen of the fairies

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MIHS drama department opens with the Bard, Island Sound concerts in December

The new Mercer Island High School drama teacher and theater manager, Daniela Melgar, knew she had some pretty…

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Student website may offer relief for traffic around high school

It’s no secret that the traffic issues at Mercer Island High School in the morning and afternoon, when…

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Mercer Island real estate inventory dwindles

More than 50 percent fewer home sales closed on Mercer Island last month, compared to October 2010, per…

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World affairs course brings reality home for students

Mikhail Savvateev believes that everyone deserves to have basic needs such as access to clean water. It would…

Swimmers at Mary Wayte Pool enjoy the open swim time. City officials and the school district are working on a plan to keep the pool open.

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City, schools meet to discuss future

School district, city officials mull keeping pool, sharing bus facilities, new schools.

A resident shows the  handful of tacks she recently picked up on the bike path along Interstate 90.

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Tacks scattered on I-90 trail

Bicyclists beware, or be aware there might be tacks on the I-90 bike trail, big enough to cause…

3-year-old Sadie

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Howl-o-ween at All the Best Pet Care

All The Best Pet Care celebrated Halloween on Friday, Oct. 21, with pet portraits of dogs in Halloween…

The swimming pool of the Coval home is a masterpiece

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Mercer Island masterpiece enters the real estate market

The home at 3051 84th Ave. S.E. on Mercer Island is not just a home. It is an…

Faith Cook

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Mercer Island skater places third in Spokane event

Island Park Elementary fifth-grader Faith Cook said her friends at school really don’t believe that she’s a figure…

Dave Anderson

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Dave Anderson, ‘grill master’

It seems like Dave Anderson has been hooked on grilling for a long time. Before he and his…