King County Metro Transit General Manager Kevin Desmond will appear before two King County Council committees this week to highlight the challenges that lie ahead for Metro as it prepares for massive funding cuts. Those cuts are scheduled to take effect in 2014.
On Wednesday, March 6, West Mercer Elementary School hosted its second annual competitive spelling bee. About 30 students from first through fifth grade competed for the opportunity to continue on to the King/Snohomish Regional Spelling Bee. The winner of the Regional Bee will travel to Washington, D.C., to compete in the Scripps National Spelling Bee at the end of May.
While we are all taught to use good manners when answering the telephone, not everyone who calls you necessarily has good intentions.
Mercer Island’s annual Rotary Run will take place on Sunday, March 24, this year, and Islanders should be prepared for heavy traffic in the Town Center, as well as road closures.
This weekend, as runners line up for the annual Mercer Island Rotary Half Marathon, over 70 elementary students will be taking part in the 5k event.
Last week Argentina’s Jorge Mario Bergoglio was chosen as the new Pope of the Catholic church and will be known as Pope Francis. Many issues are facing the church as he begins his papacy.
Mercer Island City Councilmember Tana Senn announced Monday, March 18, that she is seeking to continue her role on the City Council by running in November for a full four-year term for Council Pos. 4.
Mercer Island’s beloved True Value Hardware store has a new home. The store, soon to be displaced with the construction of the Legacy mixed use project, will remain in the Town Center.
An Island home re-imagined by Seattle architects, Chadbourne + Doss, is being featured in the annual regional Tour of Architects beginning at 11 a.m. on March 24.
I expect very few Mercer Islanders to agree with the following: I-90 should be tolled and Mercer Islanders should set an example of good citizenship by working with WSDOT on the issue.
A thief in a carport triggered a motion sensor light in the middle of the night at a residence in the 4000 block of 91st Avenue S.E.
A mother and three young deer perused the lunchtime selections in a yard on the southern end of Luther Burbank Park on Sunday, March 17.
$2,800 in ruby earrings and precious stones from Pakistan were stolen from a Mercer Island home south of the I-90 bridge sometime during the night in the 2600 block of 60th Avenue S.E.