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Mercer Island School District is becoming more diverse, according to report

Overall Asian student population reaches 25.8 percent.

A flow chart showing the protection order process (Screenshot from King County Auditor’s Office report)

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County auditor finds barriers to access, inequities in outcomes for people seeking protection orders

The auditors made several recommendations to improve the protection order process.

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Patti Cole-Tindall is named new King County Sheriff

A hearing and confirmation process for the appointment is set to begin on May 18.

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Love A Tree Day to mark the beginning of ORCA’s new card system

In most transit areas, fares won’t be collected from 3:00 a.m. on May 14 until 2:29 a.m. on…

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Planning commission kicks off comprehensive plan update

Update is expected to run through April 2024.

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Making a new friend at Circus

Fan Yaun and her daughter Rya, 1, visit with an alligator that The Reptile Man brought to last…

Judged by XII: A King County Local Dive podcast. The hands shown here belong to Auburn Police Officer Jeffrey Nelson, who has been charged with homicide in the 2019 death of Jesse Sarey.

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JUDGED BY XII (Episode 3): Behind the decision to charge a police officer with murder | King County Local Dive

Special podcast series explores Auburn Police Officer Jeffrey Nelson’s role in the death of Jesse Sarey.

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‘We started something that’s really been valuable to the community’

MISF founders share their story at fundraiser.

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Commission supports short-term Bike Skills Area reopening option

‘The wheels are in motion,’ according to Parks and Rec Commission chair.

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King County expands rural suicide prevention training and peer behavioral health services

Request for application deadlines are on May 3 at 2:30 p.m.

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Washington legislature awards $10.6M in stipends for youth exiting Extended Foster Care program

The number of young adults in King County who will receive stipends is 191.

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Lifelong footballer Brasher inducted into Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame

Brasher resides at Mercer Island’s Covenant Living at the Shores.

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MI PTA Council Grad Grams are now on sale

The Mercer Island PTA Council is now selling its traditional Grad Grams to celebrate Mercer Island fifth-, eighth-…