Mason Strippel, Reporter
November 10, 2025
The Grand Junction High School football team had a roaring regular season and is advancing to the second round of the playoffs. The No. 12 Tigers played their first-round...
GJHS student filmmaker tackles Olympic sexual abuse
Mason Strippel, Reporter
October 6, 2025
Grand Junction High School senior Cameron Kirkegaard has completed his third documentary throughout his high school career. Kirkegaard is debuting a documentary about winter...
2025 GJHS Homecoming events coming up
Wren Wilcox, Reporter
September 18, 2025
Grand Junction High School’s Student Council is preparing for this year’s Homecoming Parade with the theme Rio Carnival. Traditionally organized by StuCo, the parade...
GJHS to host student-led candidate forum
Ashlyn Baker, Promotions Manager
September 11, 2025
Five Grand Junction High School students will lead an event to learn more about the candidates running for Mesa Valley School District 51 Board of Education positions. According...
Ashlyn Baker, Promotions Manager
April 30, 2025
As the first year in the new Grand Junction High School building comes to a close, its reputation has already made a strong impression. Funded by a $144.5 million budget,...
Mason Strippel, Reporter
November 6, 2025
Serving over 800 Grand Junction High School students daily, the school cafeteria is a bustling food court, fueling young minds with energy, fun and food. According to GJHS...
Emery Goetz, Reporter
November 3, 2025
The Grand Junction High School Theater program is preparing to show “The Play That Goes Wrong” as the first production of the year. “The Play That Goes Wrong”...
RESTRICTED: Website has been restricted by the internet filter policy
Ayden Guzman, Reporter
November 3, 2025
A computer filter system is in place at Grand Junction High School and the entire district to protect students from harmful or distracting content. The filter system consists...
Mason Strippel, Reporter
October 31, 2025
Grand Junction High School is collecting food donations for students and their families who rely on government food assistance. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program...
October brings back the Halloween spirit
Mason Strippel, Reporter
October 22, 2025
UPDATE (Oct. 24, 2025 12:20 p.m.): According to GJHS ALT leader Brodie Smith, the haunted house has been postponed due to the main material of plastic tablecloths not passing...
Ayden Guzman, Reporter
October 6, 2025
Grand Junction High School theater and Colorado Mesa University theater will be opening the curtains for “Hadestown” in their own ways. GJHS will be presenting the...
May 14, 2025
Click hear to listen to the latest episode of The OAB on Spotify. Graduating Orange & Black editors Marie Calkins, Lila Mottram and Serenity Schmidt introduce the newspaper's...
March 14, 2025
This is the third episode of the Orange & Black student newspaper podcast, called The OAB (Orange and Black) and linked here. In this episode, Landon Ward and Rhys Martinez...
March 14, 2025
This is the second episode of the Orange & Black student newspaper podcast, called The OAB (Orange and Black) and linked here. In this episode, the three senior editors...