Dixon High School

The Whiteside Area Career Center has named its students of the month for February.

Ronin Quick and Nathan Stauter again led the team in toss-up questions correctly answered, with Stauter getting 20 total tossups and Quick getting 19 tossups correct across the three matches.

The Dixon High School theater department will be performing the classic musical "Grease" at 7 p.m. Friday, March 14; 7 p.m. Saturday, March 15; and 2 p.m. Sunday, March 16, at the James A. Wiltz Auditorium on the campus of DHS.

The Dixon High School theater department will be performing the classic musical "Grease" at 7 p.m. Friday, March 14; 7 p.m. Saturday, March 15; and 2 p.m. Sunday, March 16, at the James A. Wiltz Auditorium on the campus of DHS. The show is based around a summer love that unexpectedly follows the two back to a 1950s high school.

Mangler: Are you ready for St. Patrick’s Day weekend? How about starting it with us on Friday night, March 14? Classical Blast in Kilts is coming to us on tour.

Two Dixon High School Scholastic Bowl team members were selected out of 30 regional teams for the Illinois High School Association All-Sectional team.

The parade starts at 3 p.m. at Dixon High School, 300 Lincoln Statue Drive. Organizer Patty Oliver said the parade will feature live music, a bagpiper, at least one float and “lots of Irish people dressed in their crazy green outfits marching and throwing out candy and beads."

The Dixon School Board on Wednesday approved new hires, resignations and changes in status.

Dixon Stage Left will present “Nunsense” from March 28-30 at James A. Wiltz Auditorium at Dixon High School.

Stupor Bowl, the Dixon Public Schools' annual fundraiser, was held Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025, at Reagan Middle School in Dixon.

The teams will compete Feb. 8 at DHS in the United States Drone Soccer District VI Qualifier.

Drone soccer teams from Dixon High School and Reagan Middle School scrimmage Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025, to hone their drones in a qualifying match for a chance to go to nationals.

The winner receives an all-expense paid trip to National Harbor, Maryland, to compete in the Scripps National Spelling Bee at the end of May.

Paschal: For this year’s football player of the year, I did want to dip back a bit to a bygone era, if you will, and just add a little extra style to the image.

Dixon High School will again host the United States Drone Soccer District VI Qualifier as the school hopes to make it to the sport's 2025 national competition in Virginia. The qualifier is free to attend at 1 p.m. Feb. 8.

Reporter Payton Felix chooses her top five stories affecting Dixon's schools for 2024.

Lee-Ogle-Whiteside elementary and middle school student finalists in grades 5 through 8 will compete for the regional championship.

The free concert will be held in the Wiltz Auditorium at Dixon High School.

Dixon Public Schools are inviting residents to join them for a night of merriment with music from the Dixon High School choirs and madrigals at the Dixon Elks Lodge.

The Dixon School Board approved 15 personnel actions at its Wednesday, Nov. 20, school board meeting.

“Beauty and the Beast Jr.” opens Friday at the Jerry Mathis Theater at Sauk Valley Community College.

Donnie Ladas' late fumble recovery was followed by a fourth-and-inches conversion by Landin Benson to give Coal City a 20-13 win and send the Coalers to the 4A state semifinals.

According to the Illinois Report Card, 42.2% of students were chronically absent during the 2023-24 school year.

FFA students from several local high schools work Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024, to make easy meals for the underserved.

Dixon High School will perform "Thirteen Past Midnight" from Nov. 1-3 at Dixon High School's James A. Wiltz Auditorium.

Petty Officer 2nd Class Benjamin Davis, a Dixon native, is an electrician's mate currently stationed at the Center for Naval Aviation Technical Training Unit at Keesler Air Force Base. Davis graduated from Dixon High School and joined the Navy seven years ago.

School Resource Officer Chris Cox will be retiring after serving 16 years at the Dixon Police Department. His last day at the high school will be Oct. 4. Taking over the position is Officer Matt Coffey, who will begin Monday, Sept. 30.

Several Dixon Police Department marked squad vehicles and officers will be at Madison Elementary, Reagan Middle School and Dixon High School in response to potentially threatening Snapchat messages that surfaced last week, according to a police department Facebook post.

Both districts’ growing attention to ag offerings has been spurred by two things, teachers say: the hands-on nature of ag programs and the lessons students can directly apply to their own lives.

Jacqueline Fazekas, a 2016 DHS grad, is believed to be the first woman to make such a discovery.

Looking to build community within the schools and welcome back students and parents, the Dixon PTO hosted their second annual Party in the Playground on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024, at Wooden Wonderland.

Here is a photo gallery from the Rock Falls boys golf invite on Saturday, Aug. 24, 2024, at Deer Valley Country Club.

The Dixon Dukes hit the gridiron Monday, Aug. 12, 2024, for the first day of Illinois High School Association football practice.

City officials expect the work to be substantially completed by the end of October.

Dixon native Tammy (Zimmerman) Helfrich, a life coach and author, will sign copies of her new book, “Ablaze,” at Books on First, 202 W. First St., from 5:30-7 p.m. Friday, July 26.

Today’s column is the second of a two-column series about Dixon’s castle high school. In part one, this column chronicled the many battles and elections that were needed to build Dixon High School in 1929. This column reveals aspects of its design and leadership.

Students are selected monthly from various departments because they displayed one or more of the following characteristics: consistent hard work and effort; outstanding attitude toward the subject; leadership, and/or class participation.

On June 20, 1927, 97 years ago, the citizens of Dixon voted to build one new high school for all northsiders and southsiders. After that momentous election, Dixon built “the castle,” its majestic high school that has stood along the banks of the Rock River for almost a century.

Dixon High School is using grant money to update the Career and Technical Education wing at the school this summer.

Rain moved the ceremony indoors where graduates, their families and school staff members packed the gym.

Dixon High School graduated 162 students Sunday, May 26, 2024, at the high school. Rains moved the ceremony indoors where graduates, loved ones and school staff packed the gym.

Dixon High School was awarded distinction as a Program of Excellence by the National High School Strength Coaches Association on April 17, according to a news release from the NHSSCA.

Signing day, more traditionally reserved for student athletes, was reimagined as a way to recognize the graduates who are going straight to work rather than pursuing higher education.

The Dixon High School Greenhouse is having a plant sale from 2-6 p.m. Friday, May 3, and from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday and Sunday, May 4 and 5.

141 students from six local schools participated in Sauk Valley Community College's Manufacturing Day Friday, April 26, 2024. After visiting and touring two of nine local businesses, the students spent the afternoon building and racing a car of their own design.

The trade show was held Wednesday and Thursday nights, with 31 student-run businesses selling everything from jewelry and video promotions to made-to-order grilled cheese sandwiches.

Art: Bryonna LeBlanc. Business: Brody Nicklaus.

Freshmen from 11 area high schools attended a teen leadership summit hosted by the Regional Office of Education on Friday, March 15, 2024, at the McCormick Event Center in Rock Falls. Keynote speaker Dr. Alonzo Kelly led students through exercises meant to explore critical thinking on a deeper level.

Rehearsals are now under way for Woodlawn’s spring musical theater production “Honk Jr." Tickets go on sale March 25, and performances will be April 5-7 at Centennial Auditorium, Sterling High School.

Students are selected monthly from various departments because they displayed one or more of the following characteristics: consistent hard work and effort, outstanding attitude toward the subject, leadership and/or class participation.