Is the Northshore School District high-school start time of 7:10 a.m. too early? | Letter

At 7:10 a.m., the Northshore School District (NSD) currently has the earliest high-school bell time of any district in the region. Research shows that inadequate sleep is associated with poorer academic performance and health, not to mention higher incidents of teen traffic accidents. Parent Advocates for a Later Start (PALS) was created in response to the very early start times of high schools in NSD.

2:27 PM May 18, 2012 0

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Students will benefit from Milk Money Month | Letter

May is Milk Money Month. If readers see a milk bottle in Kenmore, Bothell or Woodinville with an adorable cow holding a Milk Money sign at a local merchant’s counter, please spare some extra change and you’ll be supporting the Northshore Schools Foundation’s Initiative to help Advanced and Disadvantaged Learners in the Northshore School District.

12:17 PM May 17, 2012 0

Reader's view of downtown Bothell | Letter

Recently, my wife and I went to lunch in downtown Bothell. After lunch, we walked around town for about an hour. It was very obvious to us that this one-time beautiful small town has come under a strange spell. We noticed the planting strips with more weeds than flowers and plants. Pot holes in a major intersection.

11:58 AM May 8, 2012 1

Not everyone hates mother of missing 2-year-old boy | Letter

(The following is a letter that a woman sent to Julia Biryukova, via Biryukova’s attorney. Biryukova is the mother of missing 2-year-old Sky Metalwala. The boy’s father lives in Kirkland). Hello Julia, I have never met you, and know your story from the newspapers only. I just want to let you know that I feel sorry for you and I believe that you love your children. I pray for you every day like I pray for myself, any other Russian or Ukrainian mother in U.S. who was separated from her children. Please know that you are not the only one, I met seven other women from Russia and Ukraine who were deprived of the custody for their children during the divorce process. They all had an attorney.

4:14 PM May 3, 2012 0

Thanks for helping save 'North Creek Forest' | Letter

Once upon a time, there were things called trees that helped us breathe….. goes the theme of the Dr. Suess book, "The Lorax." Our Northwest is plenty green, so it’s hard to believe that in one generation more than 40 percent of the planet’s rainforests have been cut down.

1:03 PM April 27, 2012 0

Trees, football games are gone, but not forgotten | Letter

Old-time Bothell residents with good memories must have smiled when they noticed the recent removal of the trees that used to line the front of the removed Ricketts Northshore School District Administrative Building on Bothell Way Northeast.

1:28 PM April 24, 2012 0

Fear mongering in Bothell annexation | Letter

We're at another crossroads with the Bothell annexation, and once again, it's turned into facts versus fear mongering.

4:22 PM April 10, 2012 17

We're fortunate to have professionals educating our children | Letter

Bob Terry’s treatise on education and the accompanied aspersions in your March 16 opinion column gave me reason to respond.

2:34 PM March 28, 2012 1

Letter about Stanford was misleading, naive | Letter

I can't remember the last time I wrote a letter to the editor, but Adam Brauch's misleading and naive letter published on Feb. 29 deserves a public rebuke.

5:23 PM March 21, 2012 1

Vote or don't complain | Letter

If you have the ability to vote and simply choose not to utilize that option, then you forfeit your right to complain. Far too many people complain and complain about politics, yet never vote. That is unfortunate and I remain optimistic all the time that many people feel the same way as I do.

5:18 PM March 21, 2012 0