Over 100 student artists were featured in the gallery
On May 1 at 4 p.m., the VUSD Districtwide Student Art Show opened at the VITA Art Center located at 28 W Main Street. The gallery featured artworks...
A record breaking 42.66 4x400m split was ran on May 3
At the World Athletics Relays in Botswana, Lythe Pillay ran a 42.66 second split in the 4x400m relay final. The previous fastest split in the 4x400m...
On April 11 the invitational 3200 meter race at Arcadia was record breaking
On April 11, the high school Men's Invitational 3200 Meters at the Arcadia Invitational held in California took place. It...
Ventura girls’ basketball loses to Windward in a thriller
The VHS girls’ basketball team concluded another 20+ win season with a loss to the Windward Wildcats in the CIF quarterfinals that came down...
Nearsighted people may be able to help their sight
In Sept. of 2025, the FDA approved Essilor Stellest’s myopia-slowing glasses, which have been scientifically proven to have a 71% reduction rate...
VHS drama presents spring musical “Bonnie and Clyde”
For over 20 years, VHS has been producing annual musicals. This year, the VHS drama department held eight performances of the musical “Bonnie...
VUSD selects three groups to carry out proposals for the properties
On April 7, Ventura Unified School District board members held a special board of education meeting that discussed the district’s...
VUSD holds the first school closure committee meeting
On March 19 at 5:30 p.m., a school closure committee meeting was held at the Ventura Unified School District office, 255 W. Stanley Avenue in the...
Huerta speaks out against Cesar Chavez’s assault
95-year-old Dolores Huerta and deceased Cesar Chavez founded the United Farm Workers and brought attention to the American labor movement. However, Huerta...
The ten-day journey of Artemis II
On Dec. 7, 1972, NASA launched the Apollo 17 and that was the last moon mission in over 50 years, until April 1, when the four-person crew of Artemis II launched. The...
![AP environmental science teacher Jared McEntyre, said, “Go back and look at what you did well and what you didn't do well on, find the places where you need to improve and just study what you need to study. Don’t study what you don't need to study. There's not enough time. Maybe a quick little jaunt down memory lane to see what it was, refresh your memory but spend the most time on the stuff that you need to study. Looking at figures and diagrams because [they’re] really helpful and humans are visual learners, all of them. Repetition is gonna be good. Key vocabulary is phenomenal. Make sure you do your note cards by hand, not using other technologies that are out there, because it's good research, showing that when you do it by hand, this goes to your brain better than if you do it on Quizlet.” Photo by: Roya Bizhang](https://thecougarpress.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/10-1-1200x800.jpg)
![Lindsay Guzik, new assistant principal said, "I am settling in [at VHS] pretty well. I know a lot of the students, so that makes it a little bit easier coming from Cabrillo, and it's been nice to see them all grown up." Photo by: Abraham Kassa](https://thecougarpress.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/IMG_9728-300x200.jpg)