Greg White isn’t just the new head coach of Ashland High School’s football team — he’s part of the program’s history. A former Grizzly quarterback under longtime coach Jim Nagel, White steps into the top job with a clear message: winning is fun, and it’s time to bring that energy back.
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.
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.
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.
Players from both Phoenix and Ashland High School were called to huddle up last week as Charlie Hall wrapped the first official football practice for the South Valley Wolfpack at Jack Woodward Stadium in Phoenix.
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.
For this year’s Pacific Rim Bowl, players from coach Charlie Hall’s current Phoenix High School program will team up with those from Ashland High to create a South Valley team that will take on the Japanese all-stars on July 25 at Walter A. Phillips Field in Ashland.
Hundreds of high school ski racers tested their skill and endurance competing in the Alpine Ski Racing State Championships at Mt. Ashland Ski Area from Wednesday to Friday. More than 350 young athletes from across Oregon took part in the three-day event, including a warmup day and two days of competition.
The best high school downhill skiers from around Oregon will converge at the Mt. Ashland Ski Area Wednesday through Friday for the Oregon High School 2024-2025 Alpine Ski Racing State Championships.
After making a strong statement during Day 1 of the Class 5A/4A boys volleyball state tournament a day prior, Ashland kept the foot on the pedal Saturday to finish third in the championship bracket at Olympus Sports Center in Hillsboro.
The Oregon Legislature is meeting this week to consider some major cuts to current spending levels as a large revenue deficit looms. That’s because the state’s tax code automatically replicates new federal tax cuts, including ones passed by Congressional Republicans this summer that will reduce state revenue
Michael O’Looney: Trump and the Texas Legislature are responsible for a partisan power grab that has unleashed bitterness and partisan vindictiveness, all in an effort to subvert an electoral system for partisan ends.
Councilor Bob Kaplan: While the cost of delivering kilowatt-hours to our homes has risen, Ashland Electric has been able to hold our rates steady with just one increase of 5.1% in 2021. I’m sorry to say we’re due for an increase, but fortunately it’s not likely to match recent increases elsewhere.
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.
“We are still here” was the theme for Saturday’s Native American Heritage Celebration at Southern Oregon University, hosted by the SOU Native American Student Union (NASU) and SOU Native Nations Liaison Kenwanicahee (Kenwani) Kravitz (Madesi Bandi, Pit River Nation Winnemem, Nomtipom and Nomsus Bands Northern Wintu).
As Oregon lawmakers stare down a deficit of at least $373 million over the next two years — and brace for the possibility of a bigger shortfall in the state’s next quarterly revenue — they asked state agencies to create lists of ways to cut 5% of their approved budgets.
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