This year’s seniors are once again, unfiltered
Lola Bobrow and Douglas Sandford
November 21, 2019
Last year, Ventura High School Alumni Claire Ortiz, a graduate of the Class of 2019, started a project that served as an alternative to VHS’s traditional formal senior photos that included an organic and unedited film photo story of seniors and an “unfiltered” senior quote. The idea was to create...
Girls golf swings into season
Lola Bobrow and Bella Young
September 25, 2019
On Tuesday Sept. 17, Ventura High School’s Girls Golf team played against Rio Mesa at the Sterling Hills Golf Course in Camarillo. Ventura won the match by shooting a 243 while Rio Mesa shot a 297. Ventura High is 2-0 in Girls Golf, and the team has high hopes for the rest of the season. Second yea...
Where is Weber spending his sabbatical?
Lola Bobrow and Douglas Sandford
March 18, 2019
Ventura High School AP Government and history teacher of 10 years Justin Weber will be taking a year long leave of teaching at VHS to pursue education that will allow him to teach a new mapmaking course that VHS does not currently offer. In August of 2021, Weber will begin his first year of teaching this class...
Who do students at VHS turn to for advice on their sex life?
Gavin Cross and Lola Bobrow
March 1, 2019
In a world where there’s seemingly endless information at the complete ease of a Google search, one might wonder whether the quintessential awkward “birds and the bees talk” between parent and child has slowly become a thing of the past, deemed outdated and arcane by the students here at Ventura...
Swinging into the new year: three ensembles show case their jazz
Lola Bobrow
January 20, 2019
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Girls water polo slams Oxnard 12-7 in varsity game
Lola Bobrow
January 14, 2019
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Brad Steward, promoter of a “well rounded” education
Gavin Cross and Lola Bobrow
November 19, 2018
Some might know Ventura High School math teacher Brad Steward by his sometimes philosophical math lessons and choice to use the term “opportunity” instead of test. Others might know him as the freshman football and golf coach who took the 2000s varsity team to CIF and won against Arroyo Grande. ...
Fostering non-competition through collaborative performance: wind ensembles take the stage
Lola Bobrow
November 18, 2018
On Wednesday, Nov. 14, the Ventura High School auditorium hosted the 2018 fall concert for VHS’s Wind Ensemble, Honors Wind Ensemble and Buena High School’s debut Honors Wind Ensemble. VHS’s Wind Ensemble began the concert, performing Samuel Hazo’s “Arabesque,” Alfred Reed’s “Gre...
Girls golf makes school history
Lola Bobrow
November 1, 2018
After placing second in league behind Buena High School, Ventura High School’s girls golf team will be moving on to compete in the CIF state championship. Not only is this the first time in VHS history that girls golf has qualified for CIF, but also the first year new golf coach Sierra Meyers has overse...
AXE spreads “don’t bully, be a man” message to VHS with new campaign
Lola Bobrow
October 5, 2018
Last year, the men’s grooming product brand AXE traveled with spoken word performer Carlos Andres Gomez and musician John Legend to Legend’s hometown of Centennial, Ohio to bring a message of inclusivity and self-expression to high school students in their “Find your magic” initiative, aimed...
Ventura takes win in five match game against Rio Mesa
Lola Bobrow, John Studebaker, and Malik Hibbler
October 3, 2018
The Ventura High School girls varsity volleyball team took a close win on Thursday, Sept. 27 at home during their fourth league match of the season. [huge_it_slider id="64"] Before the game, volleyball coach Debbie Litton said, “We played Rio Mesa [once before this year] and we lost to them in...
Wait, what’s happening this friday at VHS?
Lola Bobrow
September 30, 2018
This friday Oct. 5 author/poet Carlos Andrés Gómez and Ventura High School alumnus Kyle Thomas Harvey, better known by his stage name KYLE, will be performing an outside concert on the VHS senior lawn during fourth and fifth periods as part of an anti-bullying initiative funded by the men’s grooming...
