November 19, 2025

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Phoenix-Talent School District hosts first ‘reunification’ drill at Talent Middle, Phoenix High schools

Classes aren’t back in session just yet, but there were lessons learned this week at Talent Middle School and Phoenix High School. A training exercise on Monday was months in the making, involving Phoenix, Talent and Ashland police departments and upwards of 100 volunteers, including Phoenix High School football players and students, staff and parent volunteers.

August 15, 2025

Ashland School District

Phoenix-Talent School District to distribute free school supplies Aug. 23

Through a partnership with Jackson Care Connect, Phoenix-Talent School District is hosting its first Healthy Start Block Party at Phoenix High School from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 23. The free community fair will offer a wide range of free resources to local students and their families, including from Talent and Ashland.

August 15, 2025

AHS Sports

Japan All-Stars make themselves at home in Pacific Rim Bowl romp

The Japan All-Star Team shut out the South Valley Wolfpack — an Ashland and Phoenix team — in the 18th Pacific Rim Bowl, a historic cultural exchange between Ashland High School and Japan’s All-Stars that started in 1988.

July 26, 2025

AHS Sports

Peace Ceremony speakers remind Pacific Rim Bowl participants: ‘If we don’t learn from history, we are doomed to repeat it’

Former Southern Oregon University President Roy Saigo asked the audience at the third Pacific Rim Bowl Peace Ceremony on Tuesday at Lithia Park’s Butler Bandshell to take a trip with him back to the early days of World War II when his family was ripped from its home.

July 24, 2025

Ashland School District

Pacific Rim Bowl: ‘Learning from each other and from different cultures’

Dr. Hideko Tamura-Snider gave a spirited message of optimism and hope for the future of the Pacific Rim Bowl and its participants, organizers, and supporters on Tuesday, July 22, during the third PRB Peace Ceremony at Lithia Park’s Butler Bandshell.

July 24, 2025

AHS Sports

Pacific Rim Bowl: ‘Friendship and peace through the shared language of football’

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.

July 24, 2025

AHS Sports

Football: Japan All-Stars arrive in Ashland, start practice Monday at Walter A. Phillips Field

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.

July 21, 2025

Ashland School District

Ashland School Board to swear in 2 new board members, 1 incumbent on Thursday

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.

July 9, 2025

Ashland School District

Gov. Tina Kotek orders Oregon schools to prohibit students from using cellphones

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.

July 4, 2025

Ashland School District

Ashland School District superintendent’s contract extended to summer 2028

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.

June 19, 2025

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