At The Mercer Island Distorter, we have much to be thankful for as 2015 near its close. What started as a dream, next a notion, and then a vision, finally became the pages that you hold…
[Editor’s Note: Here at the Mercer Island Distorter, we value our journalistic integrity. But not as much as eating, and that requires cold, hard cash. So when a local group of “concerned citizens” hurled a…
On Mercer Island, we take pride in our shared commitment to the community. The 2015 general election is both high-spirited and historic, with four contested city council races and one contested school board race addressing a…
The automobile had not yet been invented when my husband’s great-great-grandfather, Thadddeus Snugbottom, first paddled his canoe to escape the revenuers and stake his claim on this humble rock we now call Mercer Island. For…
