Regional FIRST LEGO League Qualifier Competitions held the December 14th and 15th send nine Everett School District teams to Semi-Final Competitions hosted by Amazon in Seattle on January 18th and 19th.

Newly elected Everett School Board Director April Berg was sworn into office by State Representative John Lovick at the December 3rd school board meeting.

Following Berg's oath of office, the school board launched its annual process to elect new officers.

Most of the ballots that have been received have now been counted. 202,911 General Election ballots received by Snohomish County have been recorded as of Thursday afternoon, November 14th.

Only about 170 ballots are left to be counted.

All Mill Creek City Council incumbents have won their races and Mill Creek Planning Commissioner April Berg has succeeded in her effort to join the Everett School Board of Directors.

Everett Public Schools celebrates another year of achieving a record high graduation rate. The four-year, or “on-time” graduation rate, is 95.9 percent – the highest rate on record for the district. The five-year graduation rate is 96.5 percent, also the highest rate on record.

Concerned about the Snohomish County vaping epidemic among young people, Jackson High School Freshman Katerina Vaagen began a "No Vaping" pledge drive at the school on October 22nd, after Principal Dave Peters wholeheartedly approved the project.

The week of October 14th, Everett School Board member Pam LeSesne learned she had won a random drawing and will be traveling to the Dominican Republic for a week in January to add a library, computer lab, and infirmary to the Cecaini Rio Grande School near Constanza.

Long-time Mill Creek Police Officer Todd Bridgman began his new assignment as Heatherwood's School Resource Officer on October 1st.

After submitting his application in September he was selected by Chief Greg Elwin with input from the Everett School District.

The list of Washington State’s National Merit Scholarship semifinalists was released in September; and Juliana Mothersbaugh, Emilia Peterson, Priyanka Rao, and Ethan Thong from Jackson High School were named.