Outdoor school counseling is a great opportunity for high schoolers. Being a student leader allows high schoolers to spend some time in the outdoors, learn teaching skills, and really make an impact on kids' lives. Nowadays, kids and teenagers don’t typically spend as much time outdoors as they...

On May 18th, our school’s rocketeers gathered up onto the bus at around 4:00 in the morning to head southeast towards Brothers, Oregon to launch their rockets.   After the four hours of twists and turns and one pit stop for breakfast, the squad arrived at the launching desert area. Initially,...

Allergy season is a yearly event that takes its toll on everyone. Some people, however, are more affected than others and those who are affected suffer the most. More than 50 million Americans are affected by allergies. A lot of people in YCHS are affected by allergies, both students and staff. The...

On May 8th, all across Oregon, school staff did a walkout. The teachers walked out to increase funding for schools, to decrease class sizes and fund many needed school programs. Renee McKinney, English teacher at YCHS said, “To urge the Oregon legislation to increase funding for schools to reduce...

Our school recently had a district-wide play, one of the few in our theatre class’s history. They chose to do The Music Man Jr. and had students from the Elementary, Intermediate, and High schools all on one stage in the Intermediate school gym. This was prepared by the younger theatre classes rather...