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A recent post from the Nextdoor account of Mercer Island City Council member Wendy Weiker asking for citizen input was apparently an April Fool’s Day joke. Entitled “Wendy Weiker is up for more ND abuse,”…

A local concerned citizen appeared before the Mercer Island City Council this week, asking the city to establish a “sister city” relationship with North Sentinel Island, a community in the Indian Ocean whose inhabitants share…

The City of Mercer Island is repeating its announcement from early October seeking a local citizen with a high capacity for abuse, ridicule, and boredom to serve in an official capacity with the city. The…

In an historic and unprecedented collaboration, the Mercer Island Reporter announced that it is outsourcing its local news coverage of Mercer Island to the Mercer Island Distorter. The partnership, which takes effect today, covers all…

Mercer Island users of the social media site Nextdoor.com were tricked this weekend into voting against the school district’s Replacement Educational Maintenance and Operations Levy by a fraudulent online campaign intended to protect the job…

An overflow crowd of Islanders flooded city council chambers last night to hear leaders of the Mercer Island Center for the Arts announce to the council that, as part of a self-described “flushing”, they are…

Wood Products Behemoth Lowers Earnings Guidance, Predicts Layoffs Due to Abrupt Disappearance of Park-Related Opinion Pieces in the Mercer Island Reporter Seattle-based timber company Weyerhaeuser announced yesterday that it’s reducing its 2018 revenue forecasts, in response…

A local family of four revealed that they are “super excited” to be spending winter break at home on Mercer Island. The members of the Sauergreyp family, in a series of exclusive interviews with The…

Responding to the results of last week’s election, in which more than 2,700 Islanders voted for a school board candidate who had dropped out of the race in September and endorsed her opponent, the Mercer…

In an unprecedented move, the teenagers of Mercer Island yesterday issued a public apology to the community for their parents’ social media behavior. “Like you, we are shocked and disappointed by [our parents’] recent actions,”…