News Archive

  • A slew of robberies

    A slew of robberies

    Two arrests were made Feb. 24 in connection with the Feb. 13 robbery of a man walking down 44th Avenue in front of MTHS. Parents of MTHS students were alerted to the robbery a week later via email due to the close proximity of the school to the scene of the crime. The email indicated [...]

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  • Senior’s film accepted to SIFF

    Senior’s film accepted to SIFF

    Expanding film through education, the Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) offers youth under 18 the opportunity to submit their films to the festival for a reduced rate. The program is titled FutureWave. Senior Nick Terry’s film, “Senior Prom,” has been accepted into the festival through the FutureWave program. Guidelines to the program state that entered [...]

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  • Students donate blood and save lives

    Students donate blood and save lives

    Times of economic downturn are when charitable giving may have the most impact, but it is also likely to be moredifficult. It can also be difficult to see the tangible impact of monetary donations. According to the American Red Cross, a blood donation is required every two seconds of every day. That is 38,000 per day [...]

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  • Grad requirements expand

    Grad requirements expand

    Current Washington state high school juniors will be affected by a change in the College Academic Distribution Requirements (CADR), which refers to the particular types and amount of credits required to enter a Washington state college. Beginning next year, students must take one credit of math during their senior year. Students must also take two [...]

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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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