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Celebrate Compost Days
Compost Days is a regionwide campaign to thank residents for their excellence in composting and diverting 350,000 tons…
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Positions open on Mercer Island advisory boards
Are you looking to get involved in the Mercer Island community? The City Council is seeking a diverse…
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King County sounding the alarm as harmful weeds begin to grow this spring
While early spring has the welcome blooms of cherry trees, tulips and daffodils, it’s also the season when…
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Award for VFW Keewaydin Clubhouse
VFW Post 5760 has received the John Spellman Award for exemplary achievement in historic preservation and is being…
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City to update six-year transportation program
Mercer Island and other cities in Washington state are preparing annual updates to their six-year transportation improvement program,…
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Mercer Island’s first renewable energy installation being planned for community center
A solar array being planned for the Mercer Island Community and Event Center will cost an estimated $70,000…
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Bill Bell, Parkinson’s advocate honored
Mercer Island resident Bill Bell is a recipient of the highest honor bestowed by the Whitman College Alumni…
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Thief snatches purse at French-American School | Mercer Island Police Blotter
A woman’s purse was stolen out of an unlocked Mercedes at the French-American School while the woman was…
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College Tutors free week of homework help | Community news
College Tutors is offering Mercer Island middle and high school students free homework tutoring at their Mercer Island…
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Would Metro route eliminations affect you? | Online poll
King County Metro Transit is facing a $75 million funding gap as its temporary funds from the state…
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Longtime Mercer Island resident, artist Maria Frank Abrams dies
Islander Maria ‘Marika’ Frank Abrams, an artist of the renowned ‘Northwest School’ style of art and whose inspiration…
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Tooth fairy prices go up, down based on economy
Like most of the major U.S. stock indexes, the going rate for lost baby teeth posted double-digit gains…
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Mercer Island bus routes face elimination when Metro Transit’s temporary funding expires
Sixty-five Metro Transit bus routes are at risk of being canceled, and service reduced on another 86 routes,…