Mave Enterprises, Inc. of Los Angeles, has voluntarily recalled all pistachios sold under the It’s Delish label due to a…
The city is asking for citizens’ help in protecting the Island’s sewer system. The entire sewer network, from the collection system to 18 pumping stations, is being seriously damaged by items that should not be flushed into the system.
Youth Theatre Northwest is proud to present its annual student showcase: the Cabaret and Fringe Festival. Performed annually in the spring, the Cabaret and Fringe Festival is an opportunity for YTN’s older youth to envision and create their own evening of theater. The Cabaret and Fringe Festival features short plays written, directed and performed by teens, with songs. Music was chosen and plays were created in response to various themes: truth and lies, self-discovery and control. Youth worked for over two months under guidance from YTN staff as they created and produced their own evening of theater.
The Mercer Island High School baseball team got to play a non-league game at Safeco Field on Saturday against Kennedy and won 10-7.
Despite conflicting reports, a 1932 Mercer Island waterfront estate adjacent to Proctor Landing in the East Seattle neighborhood is apparently being sold for well under its original asking price. The 15,000-plus-square-foot, 1.3-acre waterfront estate is listed by the real estate firm Ewing and Clark and includes an indoor swimming pool, game room, sport court, and home theater with a carriage house, a guest house and a dock with a boat lift.
The King County Council has given the green light for the rollout of a single-payment card for all forms of regional transit. The ORCA smart card will enable riders to move between bus, train and ferries across county lines using only one fare card.
The fifth-grade girls’ Destination ImagiNation team from West Mercer Elementary School took third place at the state competition at the end of March.
Island resident Paul Johnston, the former Chief Executive of the Seattle software startup Entellium, has been sentenced to three years…
Plans continue to move ahead for the City of Mercer Island’s Sewer Lake Line Replacement Project, the largest capital project…
An accident on eastbound I-90 involving three vehicles blocked the two left-hand lanes just before 4 p.m. this afternoon. The…
The Regional Transit Authority (Sound Transit) sales tax will increase five-tenths of one percent to a total of nine-tenths of one percent on April 1.
Construction has resumed on S.E. 40th Street. Landscaping will soon be installed along the north and south sides of S.E. 40th from Island Crest Way to 86th Avenue S.E., an addition to the original project scope. The groundcover is drought tolerant and includes lavender, mahonia, kinnikinnick and flowering current. Trident maple and serviceberry trees will also be planted. These species have deeper root structures than the existing trees and thus will cause less damage to the new asphalt roadway and pedestrian walks.
The Mercer Island boys lacrosse program will host one of the largest high school invitationals in the western United States this weekend, when 13 teams from around the country converge on the Island.