Last spring baseball games at Island Crest Park were often scheduled on a day-to-day basis. With the grass infield subject to poor conditions in the wet Washington spring, games for the Mercer Island High School baseball team could quickly and often change time and location. That meant a backlog for the other games and programs using the fields.
The regular season for Mercer Island High School winter sports comes to an end this week, and as early as this weekend, the postseason begins.
Metro is looking to change several bus routes and schedules along the Interstate 90 corridor.
It seems lately like I’ve been encountering many parents who are interested in getting their young kids involved in some snow sport activities such as skiing and snowboarding. Because I have been repeatedly asked for my opinion about this subject, I thought I would share it here.
Former NBA player and motivational speaker James Donaldson will be the featured speaker at the Jan. 31 Kiwanis meeting and lunch.
Two Mercer Island High School graduates, Denny Chapin and Jason Gamrath, class of 2005, are putting together a documentary film, entitled ‘GLASS.’
Mercer Island High School seniors Emily Morse and Nicholas Chandler were named as the Rotary Islanders of January.
The Council will meet with former mayors of Mercer Island to discuss past policies, agreements and interests of Mercer Island regarding I-90 design, construction and operations, including WSDOT’s proposal to study tolling of I-90.
More homes sold than in 2011, prices up slightly. In 2012, 296 single family homes sold on the Island.
Zane Khatib, a senior at Mercer Island High School, flew to Washington, D.C., to take part in the five-day high school Presidential Inaugural Conference.
The proposed toll on I-90 is asking for a double payment on bridges already paid for. The people dependent on these bridges have already paid in many ways.
More than 2,700 men, women and children spent last night sleeping in cars, tents, buses, emergency rooms, or just under blankets in doorways and under bridges, according to King County’s 33rd annual One Night Count.
On Jan. 19, the Mercer Island emergency preparedness class hosted a graduation for its third Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) program.