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Capitalizing on the publicity from a recent article in Slate magazine, local merchant Island Books has announced a strategic pivot of its core business to the selling of toilet paper.  “The printing press is more…

It took more than a month for King County to certify the results of the City Council Position 1 election, but it’s finally official: By a margin of only forty votes, Mercer Island citizens have…

With ballots due next Tuesday, many Mercer Island citizens are eager to cast their votes in this year’s election. A recent survey indicates, however, that this year’s unusually high levels of voter turnout are driven…

Reacting to this year’s historically acrimonious election season, a group of Island citizens has formed “Dads for a Chill Mercer Island,” which they describe as an “apolitical inaction committee.” The group proposes “radical inaction” to…

An Islander Middle School student who was scheduled to start seventh grade this week refused to attend school after learning that he would be among the only students in the grade not wearing Apple AirPods….

Police vow: “We refuse to let cougars take our youth lying down.” Responding to the sighting of a live cougar near Pioneer Park, city and state officials have initiated round-the-clock patrols at the Mercer Island…

It has come to our attention that social media-based polls are a highly scientific and value-neutral way to take the pulse of the Mercer Island community. With this in mind, we ask our readers to…

The Mercer Island High School Class of 2019’s graduation ceremony, an otherwise jubilant occasion for seniors and their families, was marred by the event being held at a location that Islanders objected to as “unfamiliar”…

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…