“I’ve got a question for you guys,” rancher Jason Chapman said as 12 Mazama High School students looked around his Poe Valley ranch. “What percentage of the U.S. population is involved in agriculture?” The students, who had spent the morning learning about agriculture in the Klamath Basin, responded thoughtfully. “Eighteen?” “Twelve?” But they weren’t even […]

The move from Kingsley Field to the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. is a big one, but 28-year-old Oregon Air Guard Technical Sergeant Diana Peña is prepared make it. Peña has been a member of the Oregon Air National Guard since she graduated from Mazama high school in 2008. Soon, she will start a yearlong job […]

Nearly 700 high school seniors from 14 schools in the Klamath Basin got an earful of advice as they face the challenges of life and their pending graduation during the third annual Graduation Motivation event in the Ross Ragland Theater Thursday. Organized by the Herald and News and Klamath Promise and sponsored by a long […]

As someone who has run Boeing’s entire Portland, Oregon, plant of 1,500 people, Mike Starr has come a long way from summer jobs weeding onion fields and working on fishing boats. A small-town guy from Klamath Falls, Starr was raised in a family with a pioneering history of raising sheep in the vast grasslands of […]

All 22 students in Lost River Jr./Sr. High School’s Class of 2018 are headed to university, college or other post-secondary education. The school and community celebrated with a National Signing Event on Tuesday. Families, community members, staff and students watched as the seniors signed on to their futures after high school. “It’s a life changing […]

By SAMANTHA TIPLER Klamath County School District Bruce Topham, clad in cowboy hat and suspenders, waved to children in the Stearns Elementary cafeteria. When asked if they liked their lunches, kids gave a thumbs-up. Their lunch that day included a special ingredient. On April 11, the Klamath County School District sent 4,200 hamburgers to all […]

The voices nominating the 2018 Crystal Apple Awardees included students, parents, fellow staff and administrators. People from all around the Klamath County School District sent words of praise, appreciation and thanks for the five teachers and three classified staff who personify the highest examples of what it is to be an educator. “She has made […]

What is an Everyday Hero? In the Klamath Falls City Schools District it is a person, nominated by their peers, who goes above and beyond to help students succeed. This is done through strong teaching, individual support, creating positive relationships with students, being a good example, and devising new and better ways of improving our […]

Peer mentoring creates relationships. Just as freshman look to the older kids at Klamath Union to help them guide their way through high school, moving from a middle school to high school can be an even greater transition for students. That is what the Ignite programs is all about. Tuesday, Jan. 9, was the first […]

For many high school students, participating in college-level dual credit courses is the start of something big. Dual credit courses are taught at high schools, by approved high school teachers, and allow high school students to earn college credit at their high school campus. The courses give high school students a jumpstart on earning a […]