Tolling I-90 will have an irreversible negative impact on all concerned with this vital shipping and transportation lane.
Over 150 musicians from Mercer Island High School performed on Feb. 4 as part of the Eastshore Music League solo and ensemble festival. Performances took place every 10 minutes in 22 different categories from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at Liberty High School.
The theft of scrap brass water meters worth an estimated $6,000 — and weighing several hundred pounds — out of the city’s scrap bin was reported on Jan. 25.
The ‘Magic of the Moment’ was the theme of the 2012-2103 MISD PTA’s annual Reflections student art competition.
On Friday, KIRO news reported that the Blue Angels may not appear at Seafair due to federal budget cuts.
Boy Scout Troop 457’s annual pancake breakfast will be held on Sunday, Feb. 10, from 8:30 a.m. to noon at the Emmanuel Episcopal Church.
The Mercer Island School District was recently notified that the district has earned a Washington State Green Leader District award, part of the U.S. Department of Education’s Green Ribbon schools program.
A proposed new law would change the state’s helmet law, requiring only motorcycle riders under 18 to wear helmets.
Mercer Island student artist Claire Cheung’s colorful sunflower is a winner in the 2012-2013 PTA Reflections contest.
There is always a pair of missionaries here on Mercer Island.
It is important that we call this proposed toll across I-90 what it actually is. It is a new tax. It is a tax on our movement to pay for a bridge that we don’t use.
Universal helmet laws are a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment, argued one supporter of a bill introduced in the Senate Transportation Committee on Thursday that would only require motorcyclists younger than 18 to wear helmets.
A showdown on the House floor Friday (Feb. 1) over an amendment offered by Republicans to operating rules for the House of Representatives, which would create a separate budget for K-12 education funding, provoked Enumclaw Rep. Cathy Dahlquist (R-31st District, Enumclaw) to ask, “Where has the majority party been the last 10 years?”