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.
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Questions about college? Two dozen college and university representatives will provide answers at BCC on March 26.
Eleven Mercer Island firefighters are set to climb Seattle’s tallest building, the Columbia Center, on Sunday, March 8, in the annual Scott Firefighter Stairclimb.
In the United States, daylight saving time begins at 2 a.m., local time, on the second Sunday in March. That means this Sunday, March 8, at 2 a.m., clocks need to be set ahead one hour.
Expanded enrollment in Washington’s prepaid college tuition plan shows that parents are eager to find a secure way to save for college. State officials are predicting a record year for the nation’s fastest growing prepaid tuition plan.
The latest traffic technology aimed at increasing safety and reducing collisions is coming soon to I-90. Beginning this past Monday, drivers will see activity on new electronic speed signs installed last fall on the westbound shoulders of I-90 between I-405 and I-5.
