Life

Yellow bird’s jingle is catchy

Frances Wood
On Birds

  • Nov 24, 2008
Argentina — and then some: the Far Pavilions

Argentina — and then some: the Far Pavilions

Argentina is more than Buenos Aires, and Mercer Islanders traveling to Pampas Country have been hitting those “far pavilions” lately and happily.

  • Nov 24, 2008
Argentina — and then some: the Far Pavilions
Chad Coleman/Mercer Island Reporter Author and motivational speaker

‘Rich by Thirty,’ a 20-something is already thereAuthor of book talks to Island youth about financial literacy

Mercer Island Reporter

  • Nov 24, 2008
Chad Coleman/Mercer Island Reporter Author and motivational speaker

Visiting a college on the weekend

Joan Franklin

  • Nov 24, 2008
Chad Coleman/Mercer Island Reporter Kris and Chuck Kusak are pictured in the showroom at Kusak Cut Glass Works in the Rainier Valley last week.

Kusak is region’s best family business

Mary L. Grady
Mercer Island Reporter

  • Nov 24, 2008
Chad Coleman/Mercer Island Reporter Kris and Chuck Kusak are pictured in the showroom at Kusak Cut Glass Works in the Rainier Valley last week.

Auer named to ‘Heroes of Emergency Medicine’

Rebecca Mar
Mercer Island Reporter

  • Nov 24, 2008

The late Nin Elliott ‘returns’ for a month

Nancy Hilliard
Around the Island

  • Nov 24, 2008

A quiet and sincere ‘Thank you’

Elizabeth Celms
Mercer Island Reporter

  • Nov 24, 2008

Bellevue’s skate plaza a regional attraction

Standing on a skateboard for his first time ever in brown dress shoes, a helmet and knee pads over his khakis, state Rep. Ross Hunter glides down the ramp.

  • Nov 24, 2008
‘Lives interrupted’ are recognized

‘Lives interrupted’ are recognized

Islander gets diploma 66 years after internment camp detention

  • Nov 24, 2008
‘Lives interrupted’ are recognized

Island life resumes ‘after the trails’

Nancy Hilliard
Around the Island

  • Nov 24, 2008

Saving the world — one carnival, iris, bridge or tuba at a time

Nancy Hilliard
Around the Island

  • Nov 24, 2008

‘Green’ wines offer taste, variety and a clear conscience

Dee Hitch
On Wine

  • Nov 24, 2008

Spending your bucks on ‘bird-friendly’ coffee

Frances Wood
On Birds

  • Nov 24, 2008

Welcome summer — and extended hands

Nancy Hilliard
Around the Island

  • Nov 24, 2008

Enough rockets, red glare already

Nancy Hilliard
Around the Island

  • Nov 24, 2008

Scanned! The occasional traveler’s blues

Craig Groshart
On the Sideline

  • Nov 24, 2008
Chad Coleman/Mercer Island Reporter Island resident Sara Seumae models organic SPUN clothing in her home garden on Mercer Island.

An organic spin on fashion

New clothing business, SPUN, created by Mercer Island resident Sara Seumae

  • Nov 24, 2008
Chad Coleman/Mercer Island Reporter Island resident Sara Seumae models organic SPUN clothing in her home garden on Mercer Island.

Cheers to some fun-loving Islanders

Nancy Hilliard
Around the Island

  • Nov 24, 2008
Chad Coleman/Mercer Island Reporter Islander Nick Forsgaard

Lunch in the park

Islander Nick Forsgaard, 18, eats lunch in the shade at Luther Burbank Park on Mercer Island last Wednesday.… Continue reading

  • Nov 24, 2008
Chad Coleman/Mercer Island Reporter Islander Nick Forsgaard