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Unexplained occurrences

By Serena Urrutia Feature Editor Halloween has passed, but everyone always appreciates a good mystery about the school they attend. If you’ve been attending MTHS long enough you will have probably heard about people encountering strange things happening in the school, especiall Halloween has passed, but everyone always appreciates a good mystery about the school [...]

Bands wow ’em at Jazz Alley finalé

They may have finished with their trademark arrangement of Louis Prima’s “Sing, Sing, Sing!” but wow, can Jazz Ensemble I play, play, play! The standing ovation from a near-capacity house at Seattle’s famed Jazz Alley was immediate and boisterous as clarinetist Jack Walters finished his cadenza somewhere in the exosphere. The gig was a fitting [...]

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Focus of World Press Freedom Day should be on future journalists

For the first time in the event’s history, World Press Freedom Day is being held in the United States. In 1993, the UN General Assembly proclaimed that each May 3 should be designated as World Press Freedom Day to “celebrate the fundamental principle of press freedom; to evaluate press freedom around the world, to defend the [...]

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Earthquake, tsunami wreak destruction

I was admiring the ocean view from our house on Okinawa when the phone rang. It was my somewhat over-protective father calling to tell me that there was a massive earthquake in Tokyo. My first thought jumped to my husband Andrew, who is a ’92 MTHS graduate. I had dropped him off at the airport [...]

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Hot Java Cool Jazz @ the Paramount

From Terrace, to the Paramount, to New York. Jazz Ensemble One has achieved great things this year, with plenty more to come On April 15, the 15th annual Hot Java Cool Jazz concert hosted by Starbucks will take place at the Paramount Theater in Seattle. The Concert consists of five of the best high school [...]

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Turning loss around

She is one of the strongest people you may ever know. You have probably seen her face around school. Maybe you’re her friend, and perhaps she’s in one of your classes. Odds are, many of you have heard her story. And when she told it, you likely felt sad, and wanted to help her. Tears [...]

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