“One of our teachers just died. A lot of people were sad about his death because everybody from sophomores up at least knew him.”
– Jeff Sharp, ninth grade, talking about Tom Shelby, a history teacher and basketball coach who died Feb. 5 of a rare form of brain cancer. A tree was planted in his honor at school.
Come fall, Henry M. Jackson High School will have a new principal.
Terry Cheshire will leave his job as director of secondary student learning in the Auburn School District to take over at Jackson in Mill Creek.
He will replace Fred Dahlem, who is retiring at the end of the school year.
Cheshire has also been an elementary principal and the principal at Kentridge High School in Kent.
Lakewood Middle School will host a Fitness Carnival 10 a.m.-2 p.m. March 27.
The event offers opportunities to learn and participate. They include a performance by five-time world champion rope jumper Rene Bibaud, clinics on unicycle riding, inline skating and yoga, along with a chance to climb a 25-foot wall.
The event, which has sponsors from nearly 20 local businesses, will be at the campus, 16800 16th Drive NE., in Lakewood.
More than 2,000 high school vocalists will converge on Monroe High School on Wednesday for the annual Mount Pilchuck Music Educators Association Choral Festival.
Singers from 20 schools, representing most of Snohomish County, will perform three or four pieces and will be judged by four adjudicators. The judges will write comments on the performances and one of the judges will give each choir an individual clinic.
When they’re all done, the choirs will be rated, but not ranked. “It’s a chance to see how we’re doing,” said Leann Rozema, Monroe’s music director and the event coordinator. The festival runs 8 a.m.-4 p.m. at the high school, 17001 Tester Rd., Monroe.
The Stanwood-Camano School District recently refinanced some of its outstanding bonds to take advantage of lower interest rates. The move will lower district tax levies by $891,000 over the next nine years.
Those savings go directly to the taxpayers in the form of lower tax bills. The district doesn’t keep the saved cash.
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