While most students were still in bed sleeping on the morning of Saturday, Feb. 24, the Mercer Island High School Mock Trial Team was already hard at work, decked out in suits and dress shoes gearing up for the King County District Competition. Only a year after Mercer Island began the first student-initiated mock trial team, the sport has grown from one team of 13 students to two teams including 20 students. It has also become a MIHS club. At promptly 7:30 a.m., both teams headed down to the King County Court House to participate in the YMCA Youth and Government Mock Trial program.
Technically, they’re just temporary employees with long, complicated titles. But talk to Emmanuel Episcopal Church’s Interim Rector The Rev. Father Charles Searls Ridge, D. Min. and Interim Associate Rector The Rev. Dr. Marilyn M. Cornwell, and you realize they’re so much more.
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*editor’s note: This story has been modified because it originally stated that Jim Ellis had died last summer, which was incorrect.
Assistant city manager positions — usually transparent gears in city business — aren’t likely candidates for accolades.
North end sewer repairs are complete
Islander athletes, from left, Sarah McWilliams, 26, Liz van Oppen, 19, Mike Novotny, 40 and Tynan Power, 24, competed in…
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City officials are hoping a shared scheduling system set to begin a few months before PEAK opens will finally bring order to the chaotic parking and traffic situation at the high school, district campus and surrounding neighborhood.
Adding insult to injury during the windstorm last December, there was no way for Islanders to get gas to travel off the Island, run chain saws or operate generators.
Islanders record memories of WWII ‘Long Bombers’ for Library of Congress archives
When the two largest mixed-use developments opened in the Town Center last year, Islanders finally got to see what decades of urban planning and design review had wrought. But to some, promises to make the new buildings more people-friendly seemed forgotten. Only a few, very small public spaces have emerged along with these massive structures. The city has taken notice and is now seeking more control over future developments to ensure public spaces are provided after construction. The code currently in place allowed developers to create several small public features, such as one water fountain accompanied by some clocks, statues or art work.
Islander Catherine Yoshida, 6, gets some inspiration from the Mercer Island High School baseball team on the opening day of…
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