Ever since their names always showed up next to each other in roll call at Islander Middle School, Sam Alhadeff and Renee Antezana have found themselves thrown together. Now that they’ve graduated from college and started their own companies, it’s happened again — this time as they work together to remodel the Mercer Island house of one of Antezana’s best friends from high school.
A barred owl stopped for a visit on the backyard porch of Island resident Luba Stenchever’s home on Sept. 8. Submit Island wildlife photos to editor@mi-reporter.com.
New artwork is on display at the Community Center at Mercer View. A meet the artist event will take place on Saturday, Sept. 25. The artwork is from artists belonging to the Korean American Artist Association of Washington (KAAW) and is on view in the Mercer Room at the CCMV (8236 S.E. 24th Street).
What you need:
5 large Granny Smith apples
Wooden craft sticks
1 (14-ounce) package individually wrapped caramels, unwrapped
2 tablespoons water
7 ounces chocolate candy bar, broken into pieces
2 tablespoons shortening, divided
1 cup colored candy coating melts
A soon-to-be completed Mercer Island home has earned a spot among 25 homes featured in the Bloomberg Businessweek list of 2010 “most expensive new homes.”
Matt Lundquist of Seattle Painting Specialists works on Primavera II, located at the far east end of the Outdoor Sculpture Garden. The sculpture is being repainted this month.
The Mercer Island Reporter’s 98040 publication publishes today, Sept. 1. Copies are available at the Reporter office, but are not in paper stands due to limited copies printed. The Reporter regrets any inconvenience to readers.
On Tuesday, Aug. 24, the Mercer Island Reporter staff, including the editor, reporters, advertising executive, office coordinator, graphic designer and an intern, visited the Everett Printing Facility where the Reporter is printed weekly.
The swimming pool at a $23.8 million mansion for sale near Faben Point on Mercer Island has been named to a list of top 10 swimming pools at homes presently offered for sale across the nation. The list of luxury residences was compiled by the real estate company Zillow.
Mysterious “Fifty” signs like this one, pictured at the intersection of 77th Avenue S.E. and Sunset Highway, have been showing up around Mercer Island. If you have any information on them, let us know at (206) 232-1215 or editor@mi-reporter.com.
Islander James Spotts helps his son, James, taste a sample of Molly Moon ice cream as his wife, Ai Ching, decides which flavor to order Sunday afternoon in downtown Mercer Island. The menu included classic chocolate and vanilla in addition to unusual varieties such as salted caramel, honey lavender and balsamic strawberry. The truck will be back Sunday, Aug. 7 in the Rite Aid parking lot from noon to 3 p.m.
The Wooden O will host three more showings of Othello at the Luther Burbank Park Amphitheater on July 29, 30 and 31 at 7 p.m.
Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence?
Five signers were captured by the British as traitors and tortured before they died. A dozen has their homes ransacked and burned. Two lost their sons serving in the Revolutionary War and another had two sons captured.