The idea of combining a sports complex on the west side of Junction City with a new high school has surfaced during JCHS Steering Committee discussion.

A member of the committee, Terrah Stroda, said there are four to five different groups of people in the community who have good ideas about getting more active and decreasing obesity, “and how to make sure we have a great sports complex that includes baseball, soccer and football. And I just keep sitting at all these different meetings and we’re all saying the same thing. So the gentleman that said are we thinking about perhaps coming together and making the high school our epicenter…and the answer is yes.”

Stroda added a new high school should be the epicenter for arts and complexes. “But there are enough of us that are saying the same thing that it just makes sense that the high school would be that place.”

The steering committee is looking at different concepts for a new high school ranging from a possible site on the west side of town near the city middle school to building a new high school on the current JCHS site. Renovation of the current building is also a possible option.