While most teenagers were enjoying precious hours of late-morning sleep, Mercer Island High School seniors George Gebben and Austin Frazier spent the first weeks of summer break up at dawn sweating over the kettle.
MaryMargaret Welch has pulled out of the race for Pos. 3 in the Mercer Island School Board race, leaving board incumbent and candidate for re-election, Lisa Strauch Eggers, unopposed. Welch, the dean of academics at Eastside Catholic High School announced the news last week, and said she was withdrawing for personal reasons.
Long-time Mercer Island resident Tom Jacobs took part in his 21st Group Health Seattle to Portland (STP) Bicycle Classic July 14 and 15.
Three of the five Bellevue Community College Board of Trustee members are Islanders; an impressive ratio considering that Washington’s biggest community college — rated as one of the best in America — has little connection with Mercer Island.
Councilmember Sven Goldmanis has been fined by the city of Mercer Island for failing to comply with building code requirements at the condo he owns on 80th Avenue S.E. Goldmanis has also been ordered by the city of Bellevue to stop work on another condo he owns near S.E. 8th Street in Bellevue.
Two-year-old McKenzie McCloskey enjoys a colorful bite of cake at the Mercer Island Monart School of Art’s first anniversary celebration…
After two consecutive years of renewing Mercer Island Superintendent Cyndy Simms’ contract, the School Board has taken no action this year to retain her beyond 2009.
Though the color has changed on the two utility boxes outside The Mercer in Town Center, there is no indication the “eye sores” will be moved off the sidewalk any time soon.
Mercer Island students take part in a Karate West class at the Stroum Jewish Community Center on Mercer Island. The…
School bus drivers are in high demand these days. From Bellevue to Federal Way, transportation administrators have been recruiting with gusto, desperate to fill a thinning district position. On Mercer Island, the man behind this job is new transportation director Todd Kelsay.
Parishioners at St. Monica Catholic Church of Mercer Island learned at Mass this past weekend that their pastor of five years, The Rev. Dennis Kemp, has been under investigation for inappropriate conduct with a minor. The investigation by Mercer Island police detectives was completed on July 24 after allegations were filed earlier in July on behalf of a 12-year-old boy and his family. Kemp is now on paid administrative leave while the Catholic Archdiocese of Seattle investigates further.
What does Web design, rock climbing and civil rights have in common? Next to nothing, and that’s exactly the point.
Though city officials suggest there is not a connection between the three incidents, the officer who struck a pedestrian on the Fourth of July was arrested for a DUI two years ago and reprimanded for being drunk at this year’s Officer of the Year award ceremony.