Articles by staph

Following up on the recent release of the 2016 U.S. News & World Report high school rankings, which placed Mercer Island High School eighth among high schools in Washington State, The Distorter set out to gauge the…

Chaos ensued on Sunday as Mercer Island anarchists took to the streets for a May Day rally that culminated with them littering in front of a North End Starbucks. The anarchists, who declined to give their full…

Hundreds of Mercer Island residents rushed to sign a petition to put the “Protect Our Parks” initiative on the November ballot after Seattle newspaper The Stranger published an article encouraging them to do exactly the…

You might not know it by walking its streets or visiting its local establishments, but Mercer Island is home to a mysterious and exotic tribe that is believed to predate Christianity. University of Washington anthropologist and…

Mercer Island School District officials are scrambling to deal with the revelation that Colton Haulfield, a fourth grader at West Mercer Elementary, is not interested in attending a highly selective college. “It’s just not that…