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Let’s get ready to rumble, it is time for the general election

If politics were boxing — and sometimes it certainly seems that way — then we have finished with…

Life

“Green” packaging requires a crash-course on compostable versus biodegradable products

Responding to calls to go “green,” food establishments are increasingly using environmentally friendly packaging, but the terms often…

Wilson Arterberry

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Learning the way of the kayak on Mercer Island

On the water Youth kayak camp Wilson Arterberry, 11, of Mercer Island, gets tips from instructor Barb Sherrill…

Stella Smith

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Final days of summer

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School briefs

Kaleidoscope of mosaics at IMS

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One more night

One more night

Flashing signs warn southbound drivers on Island Crest Way of construction delays along S.E. 40th Street on Mercer Island last week.

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Road work ahead

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I-90 closures

Over the next several weeks, WSDOT and Sound Transit will be continuing its work to add HOV lanes…

Freshman trumpet player Joseph Shanks gets help with finding a marching band uniform that fits from parent volunteer Eileen Concannon at Mercer Island High School. The band will march at the Islander football team’s home opener this Friday.

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Suiting up for back to school

Small flags fill the planter box below the statue of Island pioneers at the corner of 78th Avenue S.E. and S.E. 28th Street at the North end QFC last week.  The day to honor workers was first made a national holiday in 1894..

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Red, white and Labor Day

Obituaries

Pauline Maria Tyack-Hunt

Pauline Maria Tyack-Hunt died peacefully on Wednesday, Aug. 27, in the loving arms of her husband, Herb Hunt,…

Life

Getting help when there’s something wrong

So something’s not right, and you want to find help. Perhaps a relationship is unraveling and you’re not…

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Mercer Island Reporter Letters to the Editor | Aug. 27

The purpose of the proposed tolling of the SR-520 and I-90 floating bridges is to raise money to…