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Young Entrepreneur Contest Awards Prizes to Tam Students

Young Entrepreneur Contest Awards Prizes to Tam Students

By Asher Wenig May 27, 2015

Three groups of Tam students took home checks of $500, $500, and $1,000 on May 11 as part of the Young Entrepreneurial Contest to help start their businesses. The contest, held at The Sweetwater in downtown...

Tips and Tricks for Choosing a College

Tips and Tricks for Choosing a College

By Sarah Asch May 27, 2015

The last week of March is a strange time to be a senior– people start to get into schools, college goes from a taboo topic that nobody will discuss to the only thing anyone wants to talk about. The fear...

Seven Tam Teachers Apply to Transfer to Drake

Seven Tam Teachers Apply to Transfer to Drake

Seven current teachers will transfer to Drake High School at the start of the 2015-2016 school year. English teacher LoRayne Ortega, social studies teacher Michael Rawlins, science teachers Erin Ashley...

Curing Our Culture: A Postmortem Analysis of New Tech at Tam

Curing Our Culture: A Postmortem Analysis of New Tech at Tam

By Sarah Asch & James Finn, Additional Reporting by: Marina Furbush and Hannah Chorley May 14, 2015

Ruby Scott Gym was packed with 200 parents on the evening of April 3, 2014. On that night, the Tam administration hosted a curriculum meeting to explain the benefits of hiring a professional development...

Assistant Superintendent McDowell Signs Contract with Ross District

Assistant Superintendent McDowell Signs Contract with Ross District

By Sarah Asch May 14, 2015

Assistant Superintendent of Education and Human Resources Michael McDowell was hired by the Ross School district as superintendent May 13, according to minutes from the Ross District online meeting agenda...

Church Sign Painted Over

Church Sign Painted Over

By Sarah Asch May 4, 2015

The well known sign outside the Tamalpais United Methodist Church across from Mill Valley Middle School appeared to have been vandalized at some point between when Pastor Kim Smith left the church on...

WASC Accreditation Body Visits Tam

WASC Accreditation Body Visits Tam

By Jessica Hudson May 3, 2015

The Accrediting Commission for Schools, Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) visited Tam April 21-24 to review the school. WASC’s accreditation “assures the educational community, the...

Lack of Enrollment May Lead to No Yearbook Next Year

Lack of Enrollment May Lead to No Yearbook Next Year

By Wanya Williams April 29, 2015

Due to the lack of enrollment for the Yearbook class, the class has been canceled and it is unlikely that there will be a yearbook published next year. “I wish we had more time to recruit for Yearbook...

Sports Update: April 28 Action

Sports Update: April 28 Action

By Calvin Rosevear and Calvin Rosevear April 29, 2015

GIRLS’ VARSITY LACROSSE SUFFERS LOSS TO UNIVERSITY The girls’ varsity lacrosse team lost to University High School 14-7 on April 28 in San Francisco. This brings their overall record to 2-11 and...

Lady Hawks Clinch First Place in League Play

Lady Hawks Clinch First Place in League Play

By Riley Kuffner and Riley Kuffner April 28, 2015

The Tam girls’ varsity soccer team faced off against the Redwood Giants at home in a classic Senior Day division rivalry on Tuesday, April 28. The game started off with a lot of back and forth, but senior...

SMTCABL Rises on Campus

SMTCABL Rises on Campus

By Joe Russell April 27, 2015

Several Tam students have joined the Southern Marin Tri-City Amateur Basketball League (SMTCABL), a basketball league created and commissioned by senior Cedar Banks. Banks also coaches and plays for the...

Off the Mainland: A Look into Student Life on Angel Island

Off the Mainland: A Look into Student Life on Angel Island

By Claire Donohue and Jordan Blackburn April 23, 2015

Every morning, senior Jordan Sherman wakes up at 6:30 a.m., rushes through his shower, and feeds his cat. If he has time, he’ll eat some breakfast, then he jumps into a van with his dad headed towards...

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