Stirring up the season
By Kennedy Cooper, Sports Co-Editor
September 6, 2018
Filed under Sports
The Northwest 2A Conference will take on a very different look this year with its newly adopted two-tiered, football-only league. The 11 2A teams in the district have been split up into two separate divisions, Sky and Lake, to help fight competitive imbalance and support struggling programs. Burlington-Edison,...
Teachers sign contract to raise base salary
By Nolan DeGarlais, News Editor
September 6, 2018
The Edmonds Education Association (EEA), the labor union for teachers in the Edmonds School District (ESD), has reached an agreement with the ESD resulting in significant increases in teacher salaries. Salary increases, which are occurring across the state, are a direct result of a 2012 Washington Supreme...
Class of 2018 Fall Plans
By Sam Johnson, Data and Online Manager
June 14, 2018
Filed under Feature, Senior Features
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Threats cause disruption, fear
By Nolan DeGarlais, News Editor
June 14, 2018
Filed under Featured Stories, News, School News
Several threats to school safety during the week of June 4 to June 8. The threats culminated on Thursday, June 7, when the MTHS campus entered a state of total lockdown by administration at approximately 11:14 a.m. through an announcement over the intercom. This total lockdown lasted until approxima...
A powerful start to the robotics season
By Teresa Bonilla, TEMPO Graphics and Design Editor
January 16, 2018
Filed under News, School News, STEM, Technology, The425
On January 6 at 7 a.m., about 1,000 people gathered in the Terraceum for the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) kickoff. Each year, a new FRC challenge is issued, and kickoff is the international time and date when the challenge is released. The only information teams have before kickoff is the name of the...
ESD replacement levy to appear on February ballot
By Nolan DeGarlais, News Editor
December 26, 2017
Filed under News, School News, The425
The Edmonds School District (ESD) will hold an election Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2018, for a ballot measure to raise a Replacement School Programs and Operations Levy. The levy would directly fund classrooms across the district and support programs for ESD students. It will carry the title of “Proposition No....
Smoke alarm causes impromptu evacuation
By Sierra Clark, Graphics Editor
March 22, 2017
Filed under News, School News
A smoke detector alarm rang throughout MTHS at approximately 10:30 a.m. this morning, causing an impromptu evacuation of the school. Many students were unaware of the situation, as it was not one of the planned fire drills. Principal Greg Schwab assured that it was only the smoke alarms that we...
MTHS holds community forum about safety
By Samantha Svikel, Op-Ed Editor
January 12, 2017
Filed under News, School News
The MTHS administration held a community forum on Monday, January 9th in the theatre due to gun related events that occurred on Wednesday, January 4th and Friday, January 6th. Principal Greg Schwab has said these events were unrelated. Parents from the Mountlake Terrace and Brier areas came to learn...
Weather-related collision outside MTHS
By Stephi Smith, Executive Editor
January 10, 2017
Filed under News
Two cars crashed into each other this morning outside MTHS and blocked the intersection leading to the campus entrance after skidding on black ice. The crash occurred sometime during first period, according to Principal Greg Schwab, causing many students to arrive late to their second period. Principal G...
Koalaty Improv advances to improv Hogan Cup competition
By Nolan DeGarlais, News Editor
November 30, 2016
Filed under A&E, Drama, Improv
The MTHS Koalaty Improv Theatre Sports team faced the Kamiak High School Theater Sports team in the MTHS library on Thursday, November 17 to battle it out in an improv competition. They had general ideas about what they would do once on the stage, but they used audience ideas to create a story on t...
Koalaty improv team competes in final Hogan Cup match
By Marianne Nacanaynay, TEMPO Executive Editor
November 19, 2016
Filed under A&E
Terrace hosts trombonist Jiggs Whigham for jazz performance
By Harper Thomas, Photo Co-Editor
November 17, 2016
On Thursday, November 10, the Mountlake Terrace Jazz bands hosted jazz musician Jiggs Whigham who traveled from Germany to play in one of the best jazz concerts held in this school’s theater. Full of energy, both jazz bands fed off of the presence of Whigham, an eager audience and the growing ant...