Hawks 2nd in state
The Terrace softball team made history as they took second place in the 4A state tournament in Tacoma. Led by dominant senior pitcher Kori Seidlitz and a strong core of seniors, the Hawks cruised their way through districts and eventually beat Cascade 3-0 in the district finals to take the WesCo crown and earn a [...]
Carpal Tunnel Texting
Most people have heard that texting causes carpal tunnel in your wrists, but is it true? Carpal tunnel syndrome, a gradual progressive agonizing event that occurs in the nerves of the wrists, starts with a burning, tingling, or numbness in the palms of the hands especially, thumb and index finger. Then their ability to grab [...]
Good, bad news online
The system that our district has created to enforce and manage Internet filtering is deeply flawed. When, four years ago, I noted the serious flaws in the decision to block blogs at high schools, the process required to fix the problem was unnecessarily complex. The heavy-handedness of the filtering, combined with hard-to-find paperwork, a vague [...]
Men’s soccer and baseball end season in playoffs
Season after season, the one thing about Terrace sports that one can always count on is unpredictable outcomes. So when the spring sports season started back in the beginning of March, it was an unlikely season for both the MTHS soccer and baseball teams. One team performed better than expected while the other fell short [...]
Public education: drink the poison
Public education is the means by which a government can equip its citizens with knowledge, and knowledge is power. A society of powerful people is a powerful society, and in this sense education is the single most important aspect of any civilization in the constantly transforming modern world. The ideas and sciences of mankind have [...]
Seidlitz best pitcher in West
On April 7, 2009, Kori Seidlitz received the perfect birthday present; the perfect game. “It was a warm sunny day, we were playing at Mariner High school. I had never pitched a perfect game before and when it got down to my last pitch, I felt… relieved,” Seidlitz said. “I had finally threw a perfect [...]
Missing lunch trays
Since the beginning of the school year – or at least since the school started using plastic lunch trays – the school has been missing trays. About 146 from the 600 total have been missing, an amount currently costing the school $730. Since the school began using the plastic trays, they’ve been popping up in [...]
SWAT and police take over Terrace for mock lock down
On May 28 Mountlake Terrace High School was under a two and a half hour hard lock down drill. Unlike regular school lock downs, this drill was coordinated by and involved mainly the Brier and neighboring police and safety departments. The scenario was to have an active shooter(s) within the school, with students from the [...]
Tech terms debunked
Living in a high tech world can be hard. There are so many terms that people use when talking about technology, but do they really know what they mean? When people buy things like software or computers they use words like RAM or hard drive, but in general do not truly understand what these words [...]
Relay for Life re-sparks awareness
Hawks for Hope and numerous other supporters from South Snohomish County met on the Lynnwood High School track for the 2009 Relay for Life® on May 16 and 17. The yearly event is supported by the American Cancer Society to help people get involved and contribute in the fight against cancer. Over 3.5 million people [...]
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