Rogue Valley newspaper in Southern Oregon. Rogue River Press serves Rogue River, Gold Hill, and Wimer
A University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point graduate student, Hayden Walkush, was honored this week with the Boone and Crockett Club Fellow Outstanding Achievement Award. The award recognizes a graduate student whose research advances the Club’s mission and informs natural resource management and policy decisions in North America. The award highlights and[Read More…]
A stranger knocks on your door with an alarming message: your roof needs immediate repairs. Fortunately, he says, his crew is working nearby and can offer a discount—if you agree today. For a homeowner worried about protecting a house and stretching retirement dollars, that offer may sound helpful. But a[Read More…]
Don Sweeney, the Business Manager for the Rogue River School District, echoed information most of the school principals in his district shared during the September Rogue River School Board meeting, announcing that enrollment had risen by 26 students since the first day of school. The district has a total enrollment,[Read More…]
The Rogue River JSHS boys’ soccer team is playing Umpqua Valley Christian in a tie-breaking Class 2A-1A District 3 playoff match tonight at Crater High’s Dutch Meyer Stadium, with kickoff at 7 p.m. The winner of the match moves into a Class 2A-1A state playoff match on Tues., Nov. 3.[Read More…]
A large fire at Pacific Seafood in Newport prompted the Oregon State Fire Marshal to send a hazardous materials team and additional firefighting crews to assist local responders Sunday. The Linn-Benton hazardous materials team, known as State Hazmat Team 05, responded because the facility uses anhydrous ammonia for refrigeration. Team[Read More…]
Dr. April Harrison, the Rogue River Schools Superintendent, told the district’s Board of Directors at its Tuesday, Oct. 20, meeting that she and her staff examined and considered the Division 22 standards for the first time in the opening weeks of the school year. The Division 22 standards are baseline[Read More…]
This Week In Rogue River History OCT. 28, 1981The Jackson County Extension Office announced two programs on earth-sheltered and underground housing for Nov. 2 and 3. The first, at the Knights of Columbus building in Medford, would cover site selection, construction, and energy-efficient design. OCT. 30, 1986Gold Hill voters faced[Read More…]
In a game that they needed to win to stay in the Class 2A football playoff race, the Rogue River Jr. Sr. High team hung tough with No. 7 La Pine on the road, on the Hawks’ Senior Night, never more than a touchdown away until a disastrous fourth quarter.[Read More…]
A 54-year-old man died Monday evening after his pickup went off a gravel road in rural Josephine County, authorities said. The Josephine County Sheriff’s Office identified the driver as Brent Smith. Dispatchers received the report at about 5:07 p.m. The crash site was on Bureau of Land Management Road 38-6-1[Read More…]
Two people were injured and both vehicles burned after a head-on crash on North Frontage Road near Wolf Creek, Oregon State Police reported. Investigators say a vehicle traveling south in the northbound lane at a high speed struck another vehicle near the Interstate 5 Exit 76 on-ramp. The occupants of[Read More…]
