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Students face stigmas for their significant others

Acacia Harrell March 8, 2019

According to The Cougar Press’ school wide student survey, 3.7 percent of students identify as gay, 9.8 percent of students identify as bisexual and 4.5 percent of students identify with other/questioning. When...

According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, almost one million adolescents – or 19 percent of
those who have had sexual intercourse – become pregnant each year and those who get pregnant are most often those who tend to use drugs while doing sexual activity. Infographic by: Tanya Turchyn

Love on drugs: The dangers of teens combining sex with intoxication

Archer Herring and Tanya Turchyn March 8, 2019

When mixed with sexual relations, drugs, even common ones like alcohol and marijuana, can lead to spontaneous choices and a lack of judgment that may change a person’s or people’s futures. The reduction...

Hot Lettuce Episode 5: Nemo sucks

Hot Lettuce Episode 5: Nemo sucks

Miles Bennett March 6, 2019

Learnt stupidity, natural stupidity, supernatural stupidity, stupid stupidity and more await you in this brand new episode of Warm Cabbage. Cast: Miles Bennett, Max Bolle, Miranda Burke and Marie...

Remembering the life of our beloved throwing coach

Remembering the life of our beloved throwing coach

Tatum Luoma and Sam Hicks March 5, 2019

Richard Harrison was the junior varsity throws coach and an all around integral piece of the Ventura High School Track and Field team. A Ventura native, Harrison attended Buena High School and loved to...

A class for the working students: Work Experience

A class for the working students: Work Experience

Sam Hicks and Douglas Sandford March 1, 2019

Every Wednesday for a zero period from 7:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m., a group of working students meet in math teacher Mathew Cherrie’s classroom for a class known as Work Experience. Work Experience is a class...

“I’m proud that she keeps pushing herself to always try to do more and be better,” stated Todd Tackett, VHS Girls Varsity Soccer coach. Photo by: Felix Cortez

Peyton Erickson strikes again

Jezel Mercado February 26, 2019

The Ventura High School Varsity Girls Soccer Team has had a record of 62 goals as the sum of the most goals scored by a single player since 1991. However, this year, that record was broken. Senior...

The marquee in its original location. After an evening color test resulted in complaints from hillside residents who could see the sign, VHS is planning to relocate the marquee to another part of the school. Photo by: Micah Wilcox

VHS on the big screen: class of 2018 gifts marquee to school

Sailor Hawes and Micah Wilcox February 18, 2019

On Monday, January 28, a marquee sign had been installed by room 104/105 at the front of the Senior Lawn. According to ASB Advisor Ann Larson, the sign had been donated by the seniors from the class...

Editorial: Senior Ball? Only for ballers?

Editorial: Senior Ball? Only for ballers?

Summer Yovanno and Avenlea Russian January 23, 2019

As Senior Ball is approaching, 12th graders need to consider: Is spending over 100 dollars on a school dance worth it? For a couple ticket, it is 125 dollars and ten dollars off with an ASB stamp....

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Venturans march at 2019 Justice For All march

Micah Wilcox January 22, 2019

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Acacia Harrell and Miles Bennett January 22, 2019

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Rainclouds over Ventura, near Ventura High School. Photo by: Sam Coats

VHS under voluntary evacuation due to mudslide threat

Sam Coats January 15, 2019

Ventura High School students are likely to be evacuated from school to to a threat of weather-related mudslides, per an email from Principal Carlos Cohen. According to the email, sent to VHS teachers...

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