Coach Newkirk, a varsity basketball coach and Social Studies teacher at Oregon City High School, was recently awarded “Coach of the Year” for his most recent season.
Newkirk was first influenced...
Competing Events
OCHS JROTC has 7 competing teams, unarmed drill, armed drill, academic team, color guard, precision shooting, sporter shooting, and fitness team. In our competitions we have approximately...
Many people who live in Oregon City have been to - or know someone who’s been to - the Oregon City Swimming Pool. Lots of teens in Oregon City grew up going to this pool and some schools even did swim...
Livie Carns, Contributing Writer
• January 27, 2026
Oregon City’s Theater Department and Language Arts 11A are working with the play, "The Crucible" during the same year, creating a cross-department project that brings literature from page to stage.
“The...
Melony Nelson, Contributing Writer
• January 13, 2026
Oregon City High School’s national honor society is helping out the Clackamas Women Services (CWS) in raising money. CWS is a non-profit organization that works to help out domestic violence survivors...
Oregon City High School’s drama department held the Musical ‘Mamma Mia’ for this year's winter play, performing from November 20th to November 23rd, and again from December fourth to December seventh.
Students...
What’s it like to be a senior in the 2025-2026 school year at Oregon City High School? The Elevator asked this to Shaleen Isaacson, who is one of the many seniors attending OCHS. These questions were...
Oregon City High School walls are covered in black silhouette cutouts representing Kara Walker’s art style and how the students' view life in the halls
Kara Walker is an artist who was raised in Stockton,...
Ian Asay, Staff Writer/Photographer
• December 16, 2025
An outlet for girls in a predominantly male field, is the Girls Who Code club. Should someone join them? Are they interested in the club’s purpose? The club meets twice a month, on the first and last...
Jaevan Peko, Contributing Writer
• November 4, 2025
“And yes, God bless even the mean girls” is from the song ‘Mean Girls’ by the global girl group titled Katseye. Katseye consists of six female members from across the world who had their debut...
So why Kendrick this year? On top of the fact that Kendrick won 5 Grammys for his song, “Not Like Us”, only a couple weeks before, and the fact that Kendrick has risen in popularity a lot recently....
Contributing writer and journalism student, Layla Hibpshman, travels through the hallways of OCHS to learn more about the students around us. In this new addition of 20 Questions, she gets the inside scoop...
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