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…
Publisher’s Notes are the personal opinions of The Distorter’s Publisher-in-Chief and do not necessarily represent the official editorial position of The Distorter. To my fellow citizens of Mercer Island: It’s Election Day, and you’re still…
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,”…