Stink bombs in the halls
By Peter Kidane
May 13, 2013
Throughout the halls, you might have smelled a particular odor. Recently, many students have made comments such as “What is that smell?” or “Why does it smell like that?” Stink bombs, reminiscent of middle school pranks, have infested the school with an unpleasant odor in recent weeks and...
Straightening up attendance
By Peter Kidane
December 6, 2011
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 stu...
Email system goes down for a week, affecting all ESD staff
By Peter Kidane
October 24, 2011
A recent tragedy struck the teachers of MTHS as the Edmonds School District email server failed for a whole week. The Edmonds School District said that “the District’s email services were down due to data corruption. This corruption was a result of two sequential hardware failures of our Storage...
Edmonds School District considering revising senior project guidelines
By Peter Kidane
October 24, 2011
High school counselors and senior project coordinators in the Edmonds School District are concerned about the workload of seniors, which is full of college applications, SATs, jobs and more. To fix this problem, they are hoping to revise the senior project guidelines by combining the old guidelines and...
Sood coaches at NW Shootout
By Peter Kidane
April 20, 2011
Mountlake Terrace men’s head basketball coach Nalin Sood coached the Washington all-star team at the Northwest Shootout at the University of Portland’s Chiles Center on Apr. 2. The game was highlighted by a plethora of top high school basketball players in Washington and Oregon. Notable players...