The torn fabric of a dividing curtain inside the 34-year-old field house at Oregon High School is just one indication of how school district athletic facilities need improvement, say advocates of a $33 million referendum that will come before voters on Feb. 21. [Photo by Jeremy Jones]
While wrestlers grapple on floor mats nearby, Tom Mueller unlocks a set of doors in the corner of a room overlooking the Oregon High School basketball gymnasium. Inside, he flicks a switch. Nothing happens.
There’s enough light, however, to see inside. Racks of shoulder pads and football helmets are crammed next to heating vents, pipes and cardboard boxes, leaving about three feet to walk in. The room is dark, musty and smells like sweat.
To Mueller, athletic director at Oregon High School in the 1990s, this little storage room – one of a half-dozen cobbled together by custodians over the years, some using chicken wire and 2-by-4s – is another example of how athletic facilities at OHS aren’t up to par. Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Former Walker aide charged for Davis campaign work A former staffer for Gov. Scott Walker was charged last week with illegally fundraising on behalf of Brett Davis, Oregon’s former representative in the state assembly, during Davis’ campaign for lieutenant governor in 2010.
Night School opens next week Any Oregon School District resident without a high school degree will have new options when a district program launches next week. Oregon Night School will open its doors at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 8, at the OASIS alternative school inside the Oregon Community Sports Arena, 100 N. Perry Parkway.
[Rendering courtesy Bray Architects]
Plans for a new entrance at Oregon Middle School would shuttle visitors and students through a columned entryway before sending them past office staff, who could keep tabs of who enters and exits. It would be part of the Feb. 21 referenda.
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