The Mercer Island Parks & Recreation Department still have some spaces left in the summer day camp program.
In addition to the usual events at this year’s Summer Celebration, organizers have added the Mercer Mile fun run.
A new frozen yogurt shop will be opening on the North end of Mercer Island.
Mercer Island’s annual festival, Summer Celebration, is in need of volunteers for this year’s event. The 2012 event, Spirit of the Olympics, takes place July 14-15.
Three Mercer Island residents were named 2012 U.S. Lacrosse All-Americans.
The Mercer Island boys varsity basketball team won the Kentridge Summer Tip-Off classic tournament over the first weekend in June. It’s the third time in the last six years the team has won the tournament.
Mercer Island High School cheer coach Traci Brandon was named the 2012 Washington State Cheer Coaches Association high school coach of the year.
Mercer Island native Matt Boyd was drafted in the 13th round of the 2012 Major League Baseball draft on Tuesday afternoon. Boyd, currently a junior at Oregon State University, was chosen 412th overall by the Cincinnati Reds.
Mercer Island High School jazz band members are once again counted among Western Washington’s finest high school jazz bands.
Mercer Island resident Mary Wells Kraft is the new president of the Women’s University Club of Seattle.
The Mercer Island Thrift Shop is recruiting both adult and youth volunteers to work a wide range of hours at the store at 7710 S.E. 34th Street.
Mercer Island High School bands collected 4,690 pounds of food last Saturday from Island neighborhoods.
Gordon F. Greenman, M.D., has been inducted as a fellow in the American College of Radiology (ACR).