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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
Healing in Rwanda
By Linda Ball • November 15, 2011 5:12 pm

It is a dismal set of circumstances, one we have heard more than once over the past 20 years. Between April and June of 1994, approximately 800,000 people were killed in the Rwanda genocide, in just 100 days. But a group of Island families doesn’t want people to forget.

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Former and current school board members got together to celebrate the Mercer Island School District’s 70th anniversary on Nov. 10. Back row
School district marks 70 years of growth, change
By Linda Ball • November 14, 2011 7:27 pm

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
School district is ready to buy land
By Linda Ball • November 14, 2011 7:06 pm

Mercer Island School District will ask voters for funding to purchase land near city hall to move buses away from high school

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The fairies sing a lullaby to the queen of the fairies
MIHS drama department opens with the Bard, Island...
By Linda Ball • November 9, 2011 6:33 pm

The new Mercer Island High School drama teacher and theater manager, Daniela Melgar, knew she had some pretty big shoes to fill when she took the job once held by Karen Campbell, who retired last spring.

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Student website may offer relief for traffic around high school
Student website may offer relief for traffic around...
By Linda Ball • November 9, 2011 12:41 pm

It’s no secret that the traffic issues at Mercer Island High School in the morning and afternoon, when the school day ends, is nothing short of a dangerous mess.

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Mercer Island real estate inventory dwindles
Mercer Island real estate inventory dwindles
By Linda Ball • November 9, 2011 12:05 pm

More than 50 percent fewer home sales closed on Mercer Island last month, compared to October 2010, per the latest statistics from the Northwest MLS.

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World affairs course brings reality home for students
By Linda Ball • November 2, 2011 12:45 pm

Mikhail Savvateev believes that everyone deserves to have basic needs such as access to clean water. It would seem logical, but in fact people all over the world suffer every day.

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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.
City, schools meet to discuss future
By Linda Ball • November 1, 2011 6:34 pm

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

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A resident shows the  handful of tacks she recently picked up on the bike path along Interstate 90.
Tacks scattered on I-90 trail
By Linda Ball • October 26, 2011 12:24 pm

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

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3-year-old Sadie
Howl-o-ween at All the Best Pet Care
By Linda Ball • October 25, 2011 1:33 pm

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

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The swimming pool of the Coval home is a masterpiece
Mercer Island masterpiece enters the real estate market
By Linda Ball • October 18, 2011 12:22 pm

The home at 3051 84th Ave. S.E. on Mercer Island is not just a home. It is an artistically and historically significant home, said Barb Korducki of Coldwell Banker, who will be representing the home along with her colleague, Kathy Beckes.

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Faith Cook
Mercer Island skater places third in Spokane event
By Linda Ball • October 12, 2011 2:59 pm

Island Park Elementary fifth-grader Faith Cook said her friends at school really don’t believe that she’s a figure skater. After all, there’s not much ice around here. Cook, age 10, competed Oct. 1 in the 2012 Northwest Pacific Regional Figure Skating Championships in Spokane.

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Dave Anderson
Dave Anderson, ‘grill master’
By Linda Ball • October 11, 2011 4:16 pm

It seems like Dave Anderson has been hooked on grilling for a long time. Before he and his wife, Kathy, were married, she bought him a barbecuing cookbook because he already had three Webers. That really got him started.

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