Michiel Oakes, convicted of killing former Mercer Island resident Mark Stover, is seeking a new trial after it was discovered one of the jurors was tweeting during the trial.
Mercer Island High School junior and boys soccer team captain Jordan Morris has been named the Washington boys soccer Gatorade Player of 2012.
Team Mercer Island recently won the PEAK spring league seventh grade Gold Basketball championship, held May 12-13.
Former Mercer Island resident Andreas Plackis is a redshirt junior playing with the University of Missouri baseball team.
Ryan Hall, the current Mercer Island girls water polo coach, has joined the Rain City Water Polo to coach for the 2012 summer session.
Competing this week in the SeaKing district tennis tournament at Lower Woodland Park in Seattle, the Mercer Island boys and girls tennis teams set up another state run.
Mercer Island High School alum and Wake Forest University graduate, Grace Wandell, has earned the 2012-2013 Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship to study global medicine.
The week began with vandalism at Lakeridge Elementary, and two burglaries.
The agenda for the May 21 join meeting between the Mercer Island City Council and Mercer Island School District board of directors has been set.
A driver improvement program will be offered by AAA in Bellevue on June 7. The course will give practical guidance for traffic accident prevention and enhances driver safety and confidence.
Five members of the Mercer Island boys lacrosse team earned 2012 All-State honors in Division I.
June 10, the opening day of the Mercer Island Farmers Market, is less than a month away.
‘Left Behind’ is an oil painting depicting slums, by Mercer Island artist Margarita Melniciuc, who is from Moldova, a country in Eastern Europe.