Starting February 20, Community Transit will be cutting 20 percent of its bus service by adjusting all local routes and reducing frequency of buses. These service changes will likely impact all MTHS students who ride Community Transit. Here are some major route adjustments around MTHS: Route 112: The bus route that directly serves MTHS will be [...]
For most people, the holidays are a time filled with happy festivities, traditions, home cooked feasts and the giving and receiving of gifts. Many low-income families may not be able to afford the costs of the holidays. That is why the freshman ASB started the Giving Tree. The Giving Tree was set up in the [...]
During a Multicultural Week lunchtime performance on Jan. 10, the club Colores Unidos performed a series of Mexican and Latino dances including Cumbia, Banda, Bachacha and Macarena. However, in the middle of second lunch at 11:41 a.m., freshman Joshua Wyant ran through the group of dancers shirtless. Alex Corona, a Colores Unidos member commented on [...]
About 10-15 MTHS students came to school late to protest administration’s recent practice of scanning the ID cards of students who are late to school at the front door. They were planning to cause a jam of student traffic at the door, but when they arrived, not a single student was carded. The protest was [...]
A little over a year ago, then-junior, Hunter Goncalves was the girl’s swim captain competing for a state swim title. Now, instead of swimming, the 17-year-old Goncalves is actively involved in the Occupy Seattle protests. She grew up in a politically active family and has participated in protests in the past-although not on the same [...]
App of the Year In this year’s iTunes Rewind, the application Instagram took home the award of “iPhone App of the Year.” Instagram is extremely popular and has about 15 million users. The photo sharing app lets you take pictures, add effects to them and share them on social networks. The five-star rated app is [...]
White House Shooting Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez is the man charged with trying to assassinate President Barack Obama with an AK-47 assault rifle at the White House on Nov. 11. Police arrested Ortega on Nov. 15 in Pennsylvania. If convicted, he could receive life in prison. Ortega said President Obama “needed to be taken care of,” according [...]
Teachers from MTHS, Cedar Way Elementary and Brier Terrace M.S. wave signs to oppose education budget cuts at the intersection of 196th and 44th on Nov. 28. A brisk Monday afternoon after Thanksgiving break didn’t stop teachers from waving signs on the intersection of 196th and 44th advocating against additional cuts to the Washington state [...]
Voters in Washington handily approved Initiative 1183 on Nov. 8, which would close state liquor stores and allow large grocery stores to sell hard alcohol instead. The big switch to private liquor sales comes June 1 of next year. I-1183 passed with almost 59 percent of voters voting “yes.” The initiative passed in 34 of [...]
The administration feels that getting to school on time is important and has a huge impact on learning in the classroom. A few weeks ago, administrators began scanning the barcodes on the ID cards of students who were tardy to school. Their names were also marked down as a way to motivate the students to [...]
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