Can you come up with the correct question to the following “Jeopardy” answer? The answer: it's a major city located exactly halfway between London and Tokyo.

Annamarie Cao, fifth grader at Mukilteo Elementary, is the winner of Beacon Publishing's first Mayor for a Day essay contest. Read her essay and our comments to the other mayoral candidates here.

Original delivery of the first Dreamliner was scheduled for May 2008; first delivery now will be sometime in 2011, three years late.

If you’re a registered voter, by now you should have received your ballot for the Aug.17 primary election.

During the course of its investigation into the current Gulf of Mexico oil spill, The Associated Press was given information from the then-office of Mineral Management Services that was not making a lot of sense.

Mukilteo's current EMS levy expires at the end of this year. On Aug. 17, voters will get their chance to voice their opinion on whether or not a new EMS levy should be approved to replace the current one.

I’m a week late with this month’s column and chose a topic that will undoubtedly offend some for many reasons, which I’ll leave to your imagination.

Japanese Gulch is a lush natural area popular with many people in the community. It’s a perfect place to explore the natural beauty of this community.

The genie is out of the bottle. Dominic Gates and the Seattle Times released the genie in a recent business article that posed the question: Is the 787, or for that matter the AirBus A350, as survivable as an aluminum airplane in hard landings or crashes?

Few people can honestly say they were present during the birth of a revolution, however; those lucky people that attended last year’s Mukilteo Lighthouse Festival got to witness such an event. The Uniqueness Classic Championships was such a hit that people are still buzzing about it a year later. What was this magical event? It was simply the some of best skateboarders in the world putting on a show that rocked the Mukilteo Lighthouse Festival on that beautiful sunny Saturday afternoon.

In Mukilteo’s Centennial Park stands a monument topped with a bronze origami crane, left there as a reminder of the Japanese community that thrived in the early 1900s nearby, in what is known as Japanese Gulch. The Mukilteo Japanese Memorial, located at 1126 5th St., was erected in 2000 in honor of the harmonious relationship between the pioneering Mukilteo and Japanese communities.

The question around Lighthouse Park on Sunday was whether the pilot on a seaplane that ran out of gas had gambled and lost while trying to fly from Reno, Nevada, and Friday Harbor. Or, some suggested, perhaps he had been “shorted” in Reno when he supposedly filled up his gas tank there.

Mayor Gary Haakenson resigned his position Tuesday night at the end of the Edmonds City Council meeting. “If I’m asked what I’m going to do when I’m done being mayor, my answer has always been that something will come along,” Haakenson said. “It may not be the best time, but opportunities come when they come. ” And what an opportunity it is! Haakenson is leaving his position as mayor to become Deputy Executive with Snohomish County. Executive Aaron Reardon made the offer May 28, and Haakenson will begin with the county July 6.

Initially it seemed like a good idea to me. The presentation to Mukilteo City Council by ATS seemed to address all the concerns, so the council voted to move forward with the red light camera study at signalized intersections in Mukilteo. Heck, even my wife and Mayor Joe Marine seemed to agree that the SR-525-Harbour Pointe Boulevard SW intersection by the Arco gas station was a problem with violators routinely blowing through red lights.

Last fall, SOC predicted the Environmental Assessment and subsequent hearings would fall in the midst of the busy holiday season. Sure enough, that's exactly what happened. Before the New Year's Eve streamers and confetti settled, we found ourselves mounting a massive effort to engage a groundswell of public participation for the hearings Jan. 3, 4 and 21. Your attendance and hundreds of comments made a real difference-what was once thought to be an automatic FONSI (Finding of No Significant Impact), slowed FAA actions. In fact, as of this writing, the FAA delayed its much anticipated June response to an undetermined future date.

Rude. Very rude. That’s how I view the Mayor and City Council’s installation of camera surveillance to impose fines on Mukilteo’s citizens with automated ticketing machines. They’re huge mega-million money-makers for governments throughout the nation (as well as the Arizona company that sells them and shares in the profits from them) and so they’re spreading like wildfire in Washington’s big cities like Seattle, Tacoma, Bellevue, and Lynnwood.

In case you haven’t noticed, spring has arrived in Mukilteo. I almost said it has finally arrived but there are several things I had hoped to be a little further along on before the nice weather arrived. We live in a gorgeous community and despite the many challenges we have (and we definitely have our share), Mukilteo remains one of the best places to live, work and play.

At the April 5 council meeting, there were several public safety related issues spread over multiple agenda items. We had wonderful support from the community and I was impressed by the level at which the council was engaged in these important issues (and I'm not saying that just because I got my way, although it doesn't hurt).

My name is Rubye Hayden. I am the Building Operations lead, (Head Custodian) at Mariner High School. I happen to be African American. I have worked in the Mukilteo School District since May of 1995. My father retired after 49 years of teaching, from Mariner and my daughter attended Mariner.

In last month’s column, when referring to some of the changes at Mukilteo’s waterfront, I mentioned the plan to eliminate paid overnight commuter parking and how dealing with it would have to be the subject for a future column. Well, I said it and the future then is now so I guess I’ll deal with it.