The fashion equivalent of comfort food, hoodies are familiar and dependable, eliciting the feeling of home with every wear. All sweatshirts have an origin story. The perfectly symmetrical drawstrings and...

Your heart is racing, beads of sweat dripping down your back, the fluorescent lights of the gym blinds your squinted eyes. You're about to attempt to hit your personal record, something you've been dreaming...

About 1 in 8 U.S. women will develop breast cancer in their lifetime. Just in 2021 alone over 250,000 cases of breast cancer are expected to be diagnosed in women and over 2,500 in men. The month of October...

Football games, cheerleaders and a copious amount of junk food were some of our expectations prior to entering America as international students. Now, we — Nicole Syku from Milan, Italy and Laura Rezende...

Mat McClenahan has recently taken up the post of Oak Park High School principal at the beginning of the 2021-22 school year. He moved into the position after leaving his past job at High Tech Los Angeles,...

Julie Cho is the new American Sign Language teacher on campus. She teaches all grades from ASL 1 to ASL 4. This is Cho’s first year teaching at a high school, but she previously worked at Gallaudet University,...

Long-term Ventura County resident and educator Katherine Chang has taken over as head of the Chinese department. Chang heard about the offer at Oak Park while teaching at Westlake High School. “I was...

Caity Katz began her new counseling position shortly after returning to California, prior to which she had been living in Vermont during the COVID-19 pandemic. She came back to Ventura County as she had...

This school year, Andrea Lanter has joined the Oak Park High School staff as a counselor for students in grades 10-12 with the last names Df-Ld. She has been a student counselor in many school districts ...

Ashley Michelin is a new science teacher on campus who teaches foundations of science as well as CP Biology. These classes mainly consist of freshmen, as well as sophomores. A teacher of six years, most...