The Washington state champions from Mercer Island Little League racked up their 5th consecutive mercy rule win on Thursday, beating…
Mercer Island’s baseball little leaguers are riding high at the Northwest Regional Tournament in San Bernardino, Calif., after steamrolling through their opponents last weekend for a combined 35-1 score.
Everett police arrested a 24-year-old Everett man who is suspected of robbing the Island’s Glisten tanning salon (formerly known as Planet Beach) last week, along with more than 19 other businesses in the past month. Police arrested the man on Aug. 2 after receiving a tip based on media descriptions of the suspect. Police in over 13 jurisdictions had been searching for the culprit, who mostly targeted tanning salons. He was described as being six feet tall, 200 pounds, white and in his mid-20s.
Mercer Island High School graduates Ross Laing and Alex Baron won a 2009 Bronze Telly Award for a 2007 documentary that they produced on the Ethiopian millennium.
The playful bronze dog that accompanies a sculpted little girl in the west corner of the Park on the Lid was stolen sometime between July 14 and 15. The statue, called “Playful Pup,” was sculpted by renowned artist Gary Price. Former Island Residents Marj and Loyal Moore donated the sculpture to the city in 1997 in memory of Nancy Mottet. The bronze girl that accompanies the little dog, titled “Stepping Forward,” was left intact. The girl was crafted by a different artist, Dennis Smith, and installed in 1995. The playful pup joined her two years later.
The Adult Men’s 5.0 tennis team from Mercer Island Country Club on Mercer Island, Wash., will be competing in the…
Starting on Thursday, July 30, U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyers, the USS Shoup (DDG 86) and USS Momsen (DDG 92) will offer free public tours at Terminal 30, along with U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf and Canadian ships HMCS Nanaimo and Brandon. The public is welcome to tour the variety of ships and browse through displays on the pier.
District Nine champs Mercer Island silenced South Skagit bats on July 26 in their first 11/12-year-olds Little League All-Star state tournament game, winning 4-0.
Two Eastside legislators have received “very good” ratings from the Municipal League of King County in the closely fought battle for King County Executive.
The Mercer Island 11/12 All-Stars crushed two-time state champ Eastlake 17-1 in the Division Nine final on July 20 to advance to the state Little League tournament this weekend.
Mercer Island’s Northwest Yeshiva High School recently announced that it began construction on a new outdoor multi-sport court at its campus on 90th Avenue S.E..
The Mercer Island Momentum, a girls under-16 select team, defeated a team from Auburn on July 12 to win the Cornucopia Cup in Kent.
With 37 teams participating, organizers heralded the 11th Annual MI Summer Celebration! 3-on-3 Youth Challenge Basketball Tournament a great success.