Ashland School District
AHS staging of ‘Wizard of Oz’ a ‘great way for lots of kids to really shine’
Don’t miss your chance to experience the Ashland High School production of “Wizard of Oz” in its closing weekend.
December 5, 2025
Don’t miss your chance to experience the Ashland High School production of “Wizard of Oz” in its closing weekend.
Obituary: Gerald “Jerry” Hauck (also known as Coach) passed away unexpectedly. A 30-year high school teacher, coach and administrator, Hauck ended his career with 204 wins as the Ashland High School boys basketball coach, the most by any boys basketball coach in the high school’s history.
A Thanksgiving touch-football game that began in the late 1970s with a handful of Ashland High teens reached its 48th consecutive year Thursday.
Flying monkeys, ruby red slippers, and a wicked witch – Oh my! The casts of Ashland High School Theatre are about to take you to see the “Wizard – The Wizard of Oz!” Shows continue with performances at 2 and 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 22, after opening Thursday, Nov. 19.
What does community service mean to you? When Ashland Middle School Black Student Union Advisor Sessceal Reynolds asked her student club this question, the answer was “giving back” to the community by starting “where they were,” in the spirit of the famed Arthur Ashe quote: “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
Two teams from Ashland High School ruled the Southern Oregon Kitchen Klash over the weekend, earning first and second place awards for their creative rendition of pork tenderloin, butternut squash and green beans in the inaugural cooking competition.
An estimate for the cost to abate asbestos found in the shuttered Lincoln School recently should be available as early as sometime this week, according to Steve Mitzel, operations director for Ashland School District. The cost to remove asbestos would be separate from the as yet-unknown cost for structural repair.
Fall colors? How about crimson red and white for Ashland High School? Autumn took a Grizzly turn as the annual AHS Homecoming Parade made its way through downtown Ashland. The Grizzly football team will face the Mazama High School Vikings from Klamath Falls at 7 p.m. Friday for the homecoming game.
The anonymous donor of $890,000 to Ashland Schools Foundation in December 2024 amid upwards of an $8 million structural budget deficit has prompted a $10,000 contribution to the foundation from Emmy Award-winning talk show host Kelly Clarkson, who is matching a $5,000 donation from Scholastic.
The Oregon Department of Education released 2024-25 Oregon Statewide Assessment System scores (OSAS) earlier this month, with the numbers showing overall gains for Ashland schools and students testing above the state average in English Language Arts (ELA), math and science, but also declines in math scores among some middle and high school students.
John Paul Valdez: The necessity for service model reform in Jackson County is starkly illuminated by the failure of the centralized system to recognize the organic, effective mutual aid operating within sparse communities.
Michael O’Looney: President Donald Trump’s relentless name-calling of those he regards as his adversaries in politics and the media has become something more than a feeble attempt at conjuring up innocuous nicknames. Besides being childish and unimaginative, his slurs have become methodically vicious.
Public hearings on a pair of projects, one in a quiet residential neighborhood along Scenic Drive and the other in a busy commercial area near Shop’n Kart grocery market are set before the Ashland Planning Commission Tuesday, Dec. 9.
The Ashland City Council on Tuesday, Dec. 2, took steps to repurpose two city-owned properties — the 846-acre Imperatrice property and the 380 Clay St. parcel — as part of a broader effort to rein in city finances.
Concert violinist Carla Ecker moves in a steady triangle between Phoenix, Arizona; Santa Fe, New Mexico; and the Rogue Valley — performing opera, symphony and chamber music.
Don’t miss your chance to experience the Ashland High School production of “Wizard of Oz” in its closing weekend.
(It’s free)