Zane Khatib, a senior at Mercer Island High School, flew to Washington, D.C., to take part in the five-day high school Presidential Inaugural Conference.
More than 2,700 men, women and children spent last night sleeping in cars, tents, buses, emergency rooms, or just under blankets in doorways and under bridges, according to King County’s 33rd annual One Night Count.
On Jan. 19, the Mercer Island emergency preparedness class hosted a graduation for its third Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) program.
The Mercer Island School District has released the next three school year calendars, through the 2015-2016 school year.
The Mercer Island Thrift Shop will be holding a clearance sale through Saturday, Feb. 2.
Mercer Island’s own book store, Island Books, will soon be celebrating its 40th anniversary on the Island. In honor of the milestone, the store will be hosting a fiction contest.
Mercer Island Parent Edge will be hosting several roundtable discussions at the end of January and into February about self regulation. The discussion is aimed at parents of fifth grade through high school senior students to discuss why self regulation is important to students and their learning.
Application forms for the 2013 Stanley Ann Dunham Scholarship are now available
A majority of Washington communities saw better access to high-speed Internet in 2012, according to the 2012 Annual Broadband Report from the Washington State Broadband Office.
Women Fly! is the Museum of Flight’s annual event for young women in middle and high school who are interested in aviation and aerospace careers.
The Children’s Institute for Learning Differences (CHILD) will hold its largest fundraiser of the year, the 10th annual CHILD at Heart Breakfast, on Thursday, Feb. 7.
The board plans to discuss the facilities master plan and extending the superintendent’s contract.
You may have learned everything you need to know about life in kindergarten, but “everything you need to know about business can be learned from Little League,” says Mercer Island author, Earl Bell.