A high school football cultural exchange started in Ashland in 1988 between Ashland High School and the Japan All-Stars, made up of student athletes from multiple high schools in Japan. Today, the Japan All-Stars are made up of 47 players from 17 schools from Osaka, Kyoto, and Kobe, and 55 players from the Ashland and Phoenix high school football programs.
A Phoenix-Ashland high school team of 55 will face 47 athletes from central Japan on Friday for the 18th Pacific Rim Bowl. The teams are 9-8 in favor of Japan since the beginning of the program in 1988, but this year is the first to include both Phoenix High School and AHS players.
Two newly elected Ashland School Board members and an elected incumbent will be sworn in Thursday evening, July 10, at a regular school board meeting in the Ashland City Council chamber at 1175 E. Main St.
By the middle of the upcoming school year, Oregon students will not be allowed to use their cellphones in school. Gov. Tina Kotek issued an executive order to Oregon’s 197 school districts, requiring they adopt a policy for banning student cellphone use by Oct. 31, 2025.
Ashland School Board members recently voted to approve a one-year extension for Ashland Superintendent Joseph Hattrick, following an eventful first year in the role.
Oregon youth ages 1 to 18 can receive free summer meals at schools, libraries, parks and community centers as the Summer Food Service Program begins for the season. Nearly 700 sites across Oregon are participating in the summer meals program, including Talent and Ashland.
In Ashland School District Superintendent Joseph Hattrick’s first keynote address to students during an Ashland High School graduation, he drew on personal experiences to motivate graduates to be their most authentic selves. Hattrick, who identifies as gay, admitted he himself hasn’t always been able to hold true to this standard.
Ashland High School is one of the top high schools in Oregon for completing the Free Application For Student Aid (FAFSA), according to a report issued by the Higher Education Coordinating Commission, and a group of Ashland rotarians wanted to make much of the news, creating a scholarship in honor a school official they believe has helped students achieve scholarship success.
They cheered, they danced, they celebrated their way through high school, all while showing resilience, kindness and adaptability. That’s how Ashland High School Principal Benjamin Bell will remember the Class of 2025 as he reflected on the past school year with 208 Ashland High School graduates on the Butler Bandshell stage during the graduation ceremony on Friday, June 6.
After one of the most contested Ashland School Board races in recent history, voters in the May 20 special election had their say, selecting two newcomers to the board and voting to keep an incumbent.
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Ask Strider: A worried older brother asks our advice columnist’s advice. And a dog’s guardian wants to know if there is any hope getting their hat-hating dog to calm down. As always, Strider tries to give words that help!
After a successful production of “The Vagina Monologues” and raising more than $2,000 for Planned Parenthood of Southwestern Oregon, Ashland actor and director Lia Dugal intends for “The Climate Monologues” to premiere in Oregon in late 2025 or early 2026 at the Bellview Grange in Ashland.
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Herbert Rothschild: Whether visualization and intention by themselves can effect broad social change is impossible to determine, but the question merits sustained consideration.
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