Smog pollution in King and Pierce counties could reach unhealthy levels this week as temperatures rise throughout the region, according to forecasters at the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency.
The National Weather Service has issued an excessive heat warning for the greater Seattle area, including Mercer Island, as well as a red flag warning for fire danger.
A large drinking party was held in a vacant house on S.E. 40th Street after a 2-by-4-foot back window was broken for entry.
For nearly 20 years, the Mercer Island Rotary Club has hosted one student every year from another country who comes and stays on Mercer Island to attend Island schools.
More than 1,000 people affected by the Taylor Bridge fire between Cle Elum and Ellensburg
Mercer Island public school students will return to school on Wednesday, Aug. 29, for the 2012-2013 school year.
Islanders Connor Brown and his brother, Aidan Brown, participated in the Aspen Camp of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Colorado.
A vacation home owned by Mercer Island resident Jon Rorem and his family near the town of Cle Elum, just east of Snoqualmie Pass, was spared from the Taylor Bridge wildfire.
The construction along Island Crest Way will continue this week, as crews repave the road.
On Wednesday, Aug. 15 the entire northbound side of the road will be paved in the southbound direction. Side streets will be closed as the paving process passes them, but cars will be detoured north and south along 88th and 90th Avenue for access to the neighborhoods east of Island Crest Way.
A 33-year-old Mercer Island man died on Friday, Aug. 10, after a wakeboarding incident in Lake Washington, near Seward Park.
The Mercer Island City Council recently approved an ordinance that would ask voters to approve a bond measure to build a new South-end fire station.
On Aug. 6, the City Council voted six to one to approve a $5.22 million dollar bond issue for a new South end fire station and rescue truck to be sent to voters for approval.
The family of Richard Sweezey, a Mercer Island resident presumed drowned late last month in Lake Washington, has hired a private organization to continue the search for him.
