For the fifth year, Mercer Island will be the host of the Seattle area’s Swim Across America event on Saturday, Sept. 7.
By the first home football game in mid-September, there will be a new concession stand and press box at Mercer Island High School.
The Mercer Island Youth Soccer Club is hosting it's first ever equipment drive on Sunday, Aug. 25.
It wasn’t long after Mercer Island High School boys soccer head coach Steve Newman died that his family and Mercer Island friends wanted to do something in his name.
The Mercer Island Youth Soccer Club select U11 boys team recently played in the gold division at the Crossfire Select Cup tournament at the end of July. The team made it to the finals of the tournament in their division.
Two Mercer Island softball players recently helped their team to a third place finish at a national tournament in Park City, Utah.
Several Mercer Island lacrosse players have spent the summer playing with Team Washington, a group of high school lacrosse players from around the state.
Two student athletes from Mercer Island recently traveled to Fort Lauderdale, Fla. for the Junior U.S. Open Judo Championships at the end of July.
Though it just opened last month, new store Terra Bella on Mercer Island is already adding features.
The Mercer Island Boys and Girls Club will host it's second annual Ultimate Frisbee camp Aug. 19-23.
The Mudville Pinnacle baseball team, which will be celebrating it's 15th year in 2014, will be holding tryouts for next season in August.
Mercer Islanders are encouraged to come out and cheer on a group of Marines as they run 100 miles through the greater Seattle area on Aug. 10 and 11.
When it was time to be closer to home, the Gartons started looking for a place to establish their own dermatology clinic on Mercer Island.
Olympic Physical Therapy has moved its office to a new location on Mercer Island. The business is now located in The Mercer building at 7560 S.E. 27th Street.
Twenty-seven members of the Club Emerald Triathlon team competed in the Lake Stevens Half Ironman triathlon on July 21.
The Mercer Island High School boys soccer team just wrapped up hosting it's second soccer camp of the summer for Mercer Island players.
Though it was a quieter Seafair Friday than in years past, thanks to the wet and cloudy weather, that didn't stop curious onlookers from checking out this year's Boeing Air Show practice on Friday, Aug. 2 on Mercer Island.
Three teams from the Rain City Water Polo club traveled to Southern California at the end of July and early August to take part in the U.S. Junior Olympics.
Longtime Mercer Island triathlon coach and Club Emerald owner Ginny Pietila just happened to be in the right place at the right time earlier this year. When Barb Wodzin, the Team Challenge manager in Seattle, stopped by the club looking for a triathlon coach, Pietila was there.
Several Rain City Water Polo teams, including several Mercer Island players, traveled to the Nike Open Water Tournament in late July.
