The Mill Creek Country Club's golf course winds through some very expensive housing developments. The house above recently sold for $1.5 million. The Mill Creek Country Club's golf course winds through some very expensive housing developments. The house above recently sold for $1.5 million.

Students at the Henry M. Jackson High School work with up-to-date technology. This class was working on a computer program to predict the score of the Apple Cup game.

A roof protects mailboxes in the Sweetwater Ranch housing development from a recent snowfall. A roof protects mailboxes in the Sweetwater Ranch housing development from a recent snowfall.

With little room to grow in Mill Creek, development is spreading to nearby areas.

The development in Mill Creek has preserved some of the area's natural landscape, allowing this student a scenic bicycle ride to a nearby elementary school.

There is no helter-skelter building in Mill Creek. The community has a legacy of refined development planning. This "open house" takes on a new meaning.

The drop-in story time at the Mill Creek branch of the Snohomish Regional Library system is quite popular among the 3- to 5-year-old set in the community.

Jimmie Collier fashioned the clock stationed in front of his Mill Creek home from a World War II-era Puget Sound navigation buoy. Collier and his wife, Barbara, remodeled the lower level of the old dairy barn into living quarters 34 years ago.

Many housing developments in the fast-growing Snohomish County community include the city's name.