Archive for February, 2010

  • Gender determines strengths, attractions

    Gender determines strengths, attractions

    The birds and the bees has long been a major topic among teens. Girls develop breasts while guys get deeper voices. But does Billy really like your black dress? Does Sally think it’s hot when you wear Axe? The truth is, each gender has a different perspective and acts with different motives. The “girls are from Venus boys are from Mars” [...]

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  • ORCA cards replace bus transfers

    ORCA cards replace bus transfers

    Beginning Jan. 1 Community Transit’s paper bus transfer distribution system was eliminated, and replaced with the One Regional Card for All (ORCA) card. ORCA cards serve two purposes in the world of community transit; firstly, as a means to pay initial bus fare, and secondly as an electronic bus transfer that will last up to two [...]

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  • Local marijuana dispensary dispute

    Local marijuana dispensary dispute

    Two men from Mountlake Terrace are now threatening to sue the city after their request for a business license to open a medical marijuana dispensary was rejected. Todd Madison and Aaron Panagos have both been using marijuana in the place of painkillers, which they claim never worked for them, for years. After running a business [...]

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  • Carton vs. bagged milk

    Carton vs. bagged milk

    Upon returning from winter break MTHS cafeteria lunch-goers found a drastic change had taken place in the school lunch lines. Previously plastic bagged milk, of the chocolate and white variety, had been replaced with the cardboard carton version students may remember using five years to the prior in Nov. 2002. The district originally switched from cartons [...]

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  • Filtering parameters revised on staff computer profiles

    Filtering parameters revised on staff computer profiles

    The Edmonds School District has recently reevaluated their Internet filtering levels for teachers in the district. Beginning Oct. 12, 2009 online communities, chat, instant messaging, games and newsgroup sites were unblocked on staff profiles. Before new sites were unblocked however, teachers were required by the district to watch a six-minute informative video that reviewed the [...]

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  • Roof renovation underway

    Roof renovation underway

    For the first time in many Terrace students’ memories of the school, there has been active maintenance on the roof above the gym. Construction on a new gym roof began over Winter Break, becoming less and less subtle as students came back to school. Numerous detrimental and inconvenient leaks have spurred this replacement, including, but [...]

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  • ESD levy on Feb. ballot

    ESD levy on Feb. ballot

    Beginning Friday Jan. 20, Washington state registered voters will receive their mail-in ballots for the Feb. 9 elections. The School Programs and Operations Levy has been re-added to Snohomish County’s ballot by the Edmonds School District, reinstating an old tax nearing it’s expiration date.. Other districts in state went further than ESD to add additional [...]

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  • Washington breeds Olymians

    Washington breeds Olymians

    J.R. Celski Born: July 17, 1990 in Federal Way (now lives in Long Beach, California) Sport: Short Track Speed-Skating J.R began inline skating when he was three years old and slowly moved up the ranks as he got older. In 2004, when Celski was fourteen, his parents decided that he should move to a location where the best [...]

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  • Three leading ladies hold court for Hawks

    Three leading ladies hold court for Hawks

    #33 Teryn Bouché Position: guard Grade: 12 Varsity experience: Freshman, junior, and senior years (9,11,12) Personal goals for the season: “To always give 110% whether at practice or in a game.” Goals for the team: “Win more games than last year and to play as a team and know where everyone is on the court without having to think about [...]

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  • Weight of the Wrestling World

    Weight of the Wrestling World

    It was about ninety minutes before the district wrestling tournament and the crowd could feel excitement in the air. Anxious wrestlers mulled around in the locker rooms and gyms waiting for their chance to take their opponent down. Amid these anxious wrestlers, some may have caught a glimpse of a Terrace wrestler wearing multiple jackets [...]

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