Handshakes and smiles were all around as parents clicked photographs and grabbed videos. Elementary teachers were visibly proud, seeing the students they mentored reaching their goal of graduating high school.

“We’ve honored students for championships in track, softball and honor roll,” said Mayor Rich Mays before handing out certificates. “I don’t think we have honored people quite like you and the way you swept the Oregon State Robotics Championships.”

“There are concerns with the ability to pick up younger students as this piece of the schedule change only applies to high school students,” Santillan-Guzman said referring to the loss of early release days.

The audience let out a collective "ooh" as The Dalles High School cheerleading moved into their final ripple at the end of the routine at the state championship in Oregon City on Feb. 9.

For the first time since 2014, the girls’ team made the podium at the State Championship, placing fourth at 141 points, just 3 points ahead of fellow Tri-Valley team Crook County.

Voter turnout on whether to build a new high school in The Dalles started lagging behind last week and Election Day is tomorrow, Nov. 7th with a firm deadline of 8 p.m. If you’re going to vote, do it now and make your voice heard.

The Vote Yes TDHS team that is supporting the upcoming $140-million school bond to build a new high school in The Dalles has been listening to questions from the public. In response they have put together some fairly specific information about the bond, what it will pay for, including athletic fields, maintenance on the current high school building, and, of course, the cost of the new high school. Read more here.

Functionality and maintenance become greater challenges as years go by, and the life expectancy of this venerable structure turned out to be a mixed blessing.  It’s a lovely, substantial, well-built building, adequate for its time. But times change.

Supporters of a new high school in The Dalles are hoping the time is right for a simpler bond that focuses solely on building a new campus on the district-owned fields of the Wahtonka grounds at the ballot box on Nov. 7. There are just 72 days left until election day.

An unseen crisis motivates the school bond measure for high school rebuild. Join us for an inside look at the deteriorating state of TDHS, and find out how your vote could transform the future of local education.

The Dalles police responded to a 29-year-old woman found unconscious in a pickup truck at The Dalles First United Methodist Church on 11th Street adjacent to The Dalles High School on Monday, March 27. 

Calvin Evans is curious. And a recent question he posed to his peers at The Dalles High School brought out some startling revelations.

“It’s old,” said Juliet Jacobsen a few years back. “It’s really old. It has a bunch of trunks twisting together. It reminds me of an old children's horror book with old twisty trees - that’s what it reminds me of.”

The Dalles High School graduating seniors returned to their former grade schools this morning, June 3, to do the walk of fame as school children cheered their accomplishments. It is all part of the activities as they prepare for their final TDHS function, graduation on June 4 at 10:30 a.m. at Amaton Field behind the high school, 220 E. 10th Street.

Taylor Morehouse ended his senior season literally on top, with a fifteen-foot and state championship-winning jump in the pole vault, a half-foot ahead of Silverton’s Joel Rush. With the entire stadium clapping, he barely missed his attempts at 15’9”, which would’ve broken The Dalles’ record. Still, he was pleased with his season- with an improvement of over a foot over the past few weeks.

Riverhawks ran, jumped and vaulted at districts in Prineville on Friday and Saturday, May 13 & !4, to punch their tickets to the state championship for Track and Field at Eugene’s famed Hayward Field on May 19-21. Check out all the results here and some incredible photos by Jill Pearson and Ashley Quisenberry.

Through the mud and pouring rain in Milwaukie on May 7, the team got to see the view from the podium several times, racing tough while anticipating districts next week. Both men’s and women’s teams placed second. Riverhawks are headed to Prineville for the Intermountain Conference District Meet on Friday, May 13, and Saturday, May 14.

Last week, however, at The Dalles’ final home meet and at the Dean Nice invitational in Gresham on April 29 - all eyes were on Zoe Dunn’s outstanding triple jump, which smashed her personal record by nearly three feet and obliterated the school record set by Sharon Engle in 1998.

The Dalles High School’s National Honor Society visited St. Peter’s Landmark on Tuesday to help volunteer Alan Eagy with some weed pulling around The Dalles’ most Iconic building.