Lead found in high school portable classrooms’ water
March 11, 2010
NEW — 1:55 p.m. March 11, 2010
Tests done in early March showed that water in Mount Si High School’s portable classrooms had levels of lead higher than what is recommended by the EPA.
Mount Si graduate and Marine dies in combat in Afghanistan
March 3, 2010
Eric Ward (Photo contributed by family)
By Brian Rosenthal, Seattle Times reporter
UPDATED — 2:35 p.m. March 3, 2010
Friends and family described Eric L. Ward, a 19-year-old Marine from Redmond and Mount Si graduate who died Feb. 21 in Afghanistan, as a proud and generous man who kept everybody around him laughing.
French pen pals give their impressions of American teen life
March 3, 2010
French students from the Notre Dame le Ménimur school in France after presentations they made about the differences between France and American. The French students are pen pals with French-language students at Mount Si High School. (Photo contributed)
NEW — 1:05 p.m. March 3, 2010
With every letter they receive from their French pen pals, Mount Si High School language students learn a little more about French culture and life.
The same goes for French students at the Notre Dame le Ménimur school in Vannes, in Northwest France.
Their English-language teacher, Amélie Lambotin, married 2003 Mount Si graduate Ian Mengedoht. In 2009, Lambotin’s students began writing letters to Mount Si students. These are their unedited impressions about differences between America and France.
Mount Si graduate and Marine killed in Afghanistan
February 25, 2010
By Brian Rosenthal, The Seattle Times
NEW — 11:08 p.m. Feb. 25, 2010
Friends and family described Eric L. Ward, a 19-year-old Marine from Redmond who died Sunday in Afghanistan, as a proud and generous man who kept everybody around him laughing.
Mount Si’s green team saves money and the environment
February 24, 2010
NEW — 6:00 a.m. Feb. 24, 2010
Mount Si High School recycles paper and plastics, but it has a way to go on other environmental fronts, at least according to the Green Team.
Committee backs Mount Si annexing middle school to accommodate student growth
February 18, 2010
NEW — 10:52 a.m. Feb. 18, 2010
Snoqualmie Middle School will become a satellite campus for Mount Si High School in the plan endorsed by the school district task force. (Photo by Dan Catchpole)
Snoqualmie Middle School could soon be a freshman academy, a science and technology facility or even a fine arts pod for high school students.
Committee recommends Mount Si High School annex Snoqualmie Middle School
February 12, 2010
NEW — 11:43a.m. Feb. 14, 2010
Snoqualmie Middle School could soon be a freshman academy, a science and technology facility or even a fine arts campus.
Wildcat Court opens at Mount Si High School
February 10, 2010
Sunlight catches a Mount Si student during lunch in the high school’s new Wildcat Court, which opened Feb. 8. The airy space provides a common area for students, two storefronts for student groups and a view of the school’s rocky namesake. (Photo by Laura Geggel)
NEW — 2:37 p.m. Feb. 10, 2010
Mount Si High School students celebrated the opening of the Wildcat Court by filling the sunlit room with lunches and chatter Feb. 8.
School growth — where will it go?
February 9, 2010
NEW — 4:50 p.m. Feb. 9, 2010
The school district could transform Snoqualmie Middle School into a satellite campus for the high school. Or, it could modernize and expand Mount Si High School to make room for its growing student population. Read more
Mount Si students excel at regional DECA competition
January 27, 2010
NEW — 2:03 p.m. Jan. 27, 2010
After weeks of study parties and nervous excitement, Mount Si High School DECA students competed at an area conference Jan. 12. Of the 25 Wildcats who attended, five placed in the competition. Read more
