Erica Hill, the advisor to the Pegasus Literary Magazine, a once-a-year publication at MIHS, thinks the magazine’s history goes back to “sometime in the 1970s.”
This is the first in a series of profiles of graduating seniors at Mercer Island High School.
Three more candidates have come forward to fill the School Board seat vacated by Lisa Strauch-Eggers, who resigned from the board last month.
Two selfless women who have given endlessly to the community of Mercer Island were named “citizens of the year” last month by the Mercer Island City Council.
As the majority of King County saw both median prices and closed sales decline in April, Mercer Island stood its ground with fewer single family homes and condos coming on the market.
The Eastside Firefighters pipes and drum band is one of many groups of firefighters rebuilding tradition.
“The whole thing started after 9/11,” said Don Turner, station 71 captain. “They (New York bands) were playing six to eight funerals a day and were burning out.”
It has been a long haul in Olympia, and freshman Sen. Steve Litzow, R-Mercer Island, thinks it could be the middle of June before the Legislature’s work is done.
No one was willing to give in. On Tuesday night in a special meeting of the Mercer Island School District Board of Directors, a new board member to fill the seat vacated by Lisa Eggers was not selected.
The art of mosaic dates back to the ancient Greeks and Romans some 4,000 years or more. By the eighth century B.C., there were pebble pavements using different colored stones to create patterns. The Greeks raised the technique to an art form with precise geometric patterns of detailed scenes.
Three more Islanders have added their names to the ranks of people who will be running for election this fall. From the Mercer Island City Council, Mike Cero and Jane Meyer Brahm will run for this seats once again, while Janet Frohnmayer will seek another term on the Mercer Island School Board of Directors.
The Mercer Island School District Board of Directors will hold a special meeting to interview all applicants for the seat being vacated by Lisa Eggers on Tuesday, May 3, at 4:30 p.m.
It looks like the old vacant Safeway site at the north end of 76th Avenue S.E. is going to stay that way a while. The almost two-acre tract has been sitting vacant for years.
A special round table meeting was held Monday to inform and educate potential school board candidates about the board’s policies and procedures.
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