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    Articles by Linda Ball
    A woman driving a black Mercedes Benz crashed into the front of the North-end QFC on Tuesday
    Car smashes into North End QFC
    By Linda Ball • February 14, 2012 9:22 pm

    A black Mercedes Benz crashed through the doors in front of the floral department at about 5:15 p.m. Feb. 14.

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    The home at 4771 Fernridge Lane has the feeling of living in a tree house
    Big drop in median price from last year...
    By Linda Ball • February 13, 2012 4:44 pm

    The bad news is the median sales price on single family homes on Mercer Island last month is 51.76 percent lower than January of 2011, dropping to $615,000 from $1,275,000.

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    Jasper Hugunin poses with Bill Nye
    Mercer Island eighth-grader dazzles at White House Science...
    By Linda Ball • February 13, 2012 3:59 pm

    Jasper Hugunin, 13, got a phone call giving him and his dad, Jim Hugunin, less than a week to make arrangements to get to Washington, D.C., to present his award-winning computer game at the second White House Science Fair.

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    Mercer Island native Rebecca Gould specializes in CranioSacral Therapy
    Life-changing event inspires career for Mercer Islander
    By Linda Ball • February 8, 2012 2:02 pm

    Feb. 19 will be the 16th anniversary of a horrible car accident, here on the Island, that seriously injured then 16-year-old Rebecca Gould.

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    Leslie Allahyari
    Mercer Island Pilates opens
    By Linda Ball • February 8, 2012 1:30 pm

    Pilates is nothing new; in fact its founder, Joseph Pilates, migrated from Germany to the United States in 1925, bringing his method of exercise first to New York City.

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    From left
    College Nannies and Tutors launches on Mercer Island
    By Linda Ball • February 6, 2012 7:18 pm

    College Nannies and Tutors was named so because the CEO, Joseph Keely, was a “manny” himself, taking care of children while he was in college.

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    Eastside real estate market may have found a ‘new normal’
    Eastside real estate market may have found a...
    By Linda Ball • February 1, 2012 11:03 am

    All told, 262 single family residences and 38 condominiums changed hands on Mercer Island in 2011.

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    School Board to ask citizens for $196 million for new schools
    School Board to ask citizens for $196 million...
    By Linda Ball • January 27, 2012 7:54 pm

    Bond to pay for three new elementary schools, new middle school and planning of high school mega-block. Tax increase will be offset by levy set to expire in three years.

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    From left
    Mercer Island High School drama department presents ‘You...
    By Linda Ball • January 26, 2012 1:16 pm

    You think your family is crazy? Come meet the eccentric, artistic, creative and zany Sycamore family in the Mercer Island High School Drama department’s winter play, “You Can’t Take It With You,” by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman.

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    From left
    Have a question? Junglr might have the answer
    By Linda Ball • January 25, 2012 4:26 pm

    MIHS students ready to launch new social website.

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    School Board weighs how many, how much
    School Board weighs how many, how much
    By Linda Ball • January 24, 2012 1:23 pm

    Should there be three or four new schools planned?

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    State Supreme Court ruling sends message on education
    State Supreme Court ruling sends message on education
    By Linda Ball • January 20, 2012 2:07 pm

    As lawmakers started work Monday, Jan. 9, on what is to be a two-month session to close a $1.5 billion shortfall in the state budget, one pressing issue will be how to fund public schools to a level that is acceptable to citizens, educators and students.

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    Community conflicted about direction on new schools bond issue
    Community conflicted about direction on new schools bond...
    By Linda Ball • January 20, 2012 2:05 pm

    Citizens, students and educators packed the Mercer Island School District’s board room on Thursday night, for the latest in an ongoing discussion on what a bond for new schools might look like.

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