$42M sale of Island Corporate Center puts $200,000 of taxes into city coffers
An abandoned, smashed but brand-new Ford Taurus station wagon was found by police on a dirt shoulder in the 5300 block of West Mercer Way around 2:50 a.m. on Nov. 24. According to the police report, there were no tire tracks, witnesses or a driver of the vehicle. The station wagon is registered at a rental car company near the airport.
One apartment was destroyed and the tenants of a few more were displaced from a Town Center apartment building after a fire broke out in a top-floor unit Tuesday night.
A resident of the Shorewood Heights apartments took his own life the day before Thanksgiving, just moments before a sheriff’s detective was going to evict him.
Voters here favored Prop. 1
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District to study feasibility of new location for school transportation
Three Wise Men and a Constable of Nutcrackers abound at the Alpenland Deli on Mercer Island.
City Councilmembers want more input from the community about what to do with vacant land on First Hill.
Victims are daughters of girlfriend
Officials surprised by response
Two minor mudslides occurred on the Island last week as the heavy rains brought flooded basements and unprecedented flows into the city’s stormwater system, polluting Lake Washington and local streams and ponds.