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Juneteenth on Mercer Island: A Celebration of Unity

A community event supported by the City of Mercer Island, MI School District Board of Directors, MI Community Fund, MI PTA Council, and ONE MI (listed in alphabetical order). On […]

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Student-led Black Lives Matter march on Mercer Island draws hundreds [Photos]

One week ago – on Friday, June 12th – hundreds of people on Mercer Island walked 3.5 miles from Islander Middle School on the south end of Mercer Island to Mercerdale Park […]

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New Seasons Market to close on Mercer Island at the end of June

New Seasons Market has announced its upcoming closing of its Mercer Island store – which will soon become a Metropolitan Market. In an email message to customers, New Seasons shared the […]

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Tie Dye for Black Lives Matter: Mercer Island teen’s project raises funds for social justice movement

When Olivia Tomaselli, a Mercer Island High School sophomore, and her mother began tie-dying various clothing items at the beginning of the COVID-19 stay-home order, they never expected their creative […]

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New food company Goodness Grazers offers delicious and beautiful “graze” boxes on Mercer Island

In January, Mercer Island native Maggie Dickinson began Goodness Grazers: a Seattle-based company with food, human connection, and community at its center. The company, which currently operates out of L’Experience […]

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Ask a Master Gardener via Zoom

The WSU Extension of the Master Gardeners of King County has closed its in-person Plant-Answer Clinics for the 2020 season because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and sadly, the Master Gardener’s […]

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Ryan Companies to Breathe New Life Into Former Farmers Insurance Site

For decades, Farmers New World Life Insurance occupied the office complex in downtown Mercer Island at SE 32nd St and 77th Ave SE near Mercerdale Park. But the building has […]

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Mercer Island Farmers Market returns on Sunday, June 7th

Here’s some news to smile about – the Mercer Island Farmers Market (MIFM) will return this Sunday, June 7th. After months of careful planning, MIFM announces its new season, in which […]

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Doing the work: Mercer Island Anti-Racism Resources & Support

“In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.” – Angela Y. Davis In the aftermath of George Floyd’s death and with protests and […]

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