Disney Education Productions announced on Tuesday, Feb. 12, that the studio will be giving away copies of the movie ‘Lincoln,’ starring Daniel Day Lewis, to all high school and middle school students across the United States.
In honor of Wednesday’s Giving from the Heart breakfast, which helps to support Mercer Island Youth and Family Services, 12 local Mercer Island businesses will be donating 20 percent of their proceeds today to MIYFS.
The City of Mercer Island announced on Tuesday, Feb. 12, that it will be hiring the first sustainability and communications manager for the city.
The Washington State Board of Education’s Feb. 26 meeting in Olympia, Washington, at the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, will include a public hearing on draft rules pertinent to the state’s first public charter schools.
Is unwanted mail wasting your time and filling your recycling bin? King County’s EcoConsumer program has a solution – a free online opt-out service for junk mail, operated by Catalog Choice.
The suspect who robbed the Mercer Island Albertsons pharmacy on Sunday morning, Feb. 3, was arrested by Mercer Island police detectives today.
The public is invited to attend a Washington State Transportation Commission meeting in Olympia next week, Feb. 20-21.
The 2013 property tax bills will be mailed to King County residents on Thursday, Feb. 14.
Nestle Prepared Foods Company has issued a voluntary recall for packages of it’s Lean Cuisine Culinary Collection mushroom mezzaluna ravioli after glass fragments were found in the ravioli portion of the meal.
Sound Transit set all-time annual ridership records in 2012 for boardings on its commuter trains, buses and light rail. Sound Transit had an estimated 28 million boardings last year. Average weekday boardings topped 93,000 for the year.
In an email to Islanders who have contacted the city about tolling I-90, Assistant City Manager Noel Treat offered an update on what the City Council plans to do regarding the issue.
The Albertsons pharmacy was robbed at 10:25 a.m. on Sunday, Feb. 3, when a man passed a threatening note to a pharmacist, demanding drugs.
The United States Postal Service announced last week that beginning in August, mail service will be cut to five days a week.