The Majors baseball team (ages 11 and 12) from Rogue River Little League bought itself another chance to move on in its quest for state Little League competition following a huge consolation-round game on June 21. After falling in a walk-off one-run loss to Brookings on the opening night of[Read More…]
Author: Brian Mortensen
Candidates To Begin Gathering Signatures
Rogue River City Recorder Diane Oliver said Councilman Mark Minegar has completed the paperwork necessary for his first election campaign for city council. It will be only a matter of time before he and other candidates can begin collecting the minimum 25 signatures required to be placed on the Nov.[Read More…]
Lee Bids Farewell, REACH Plans For The Future
In what was the final school board meeting for Superintendent Patrick Lee, Lee used the time for his report to reflect on his seven-year tenure with the district on Tues., June 16. To begin with, he reported that the district had received $14 million in both grant and bond funding,[Read More…]
Improving Numbers And Slime At RRES
Rogue River Elementary School principal Ashtyn James had some data to share with the Rogue River School Board at its first meeting following the end of the school year, during the board’s June 16 meeting. These were the scores in each subject area, the IXL scores her faculty uses to[Read More…]
Grad Rate Highest, First Time In ‘Decades’
Rogue River Junior Senior High School principal Tori Kirkpatrick said contractors wasted no time starting summer-break work on her campus at the Tues, June 16 meeting of the Rogue River School Board. At the meeting held 10 days after Graduation, Saturday on June 6, and five days after the last[Read More…]
B My Lucky Lady Fastest Qualifier For $95K Firecracker
Ten quarterhorses, out of 40 entered through six qualifying races, made it through the late June heat of the Summer Solstice and into what will surely be an even hotter cauldron in the Firecracker Futurity at Grants Pass Downs on Sat., July 4. For a little bigger spike in the[Read More…]
Temporary Evacuation Sites Part Of Fire Season Planning
Jackson County Emergency Manager Delaney Richmond outlined new evacuation tools and emergency planning efforts for the 2026 fire season during the June 10 Jackson County Fire District 1 Board of Directors meeting. Richmond said one of her biggest concerns is the possibility that statewide firefighting resources could be tied up[Read More…]
RRFD Board Members Address The Union Letter
When the International Association of Firefighters Local 3513, the union representing firefighters at Jackson County Fire District 1, Rogue River’s fire department, admonished the district’s board of directors for its behavior at its April 11 meeting, one of the two board members at the center of the union’s letter, responded,[Read More…]
Willis Presented Soaring Eagle Award
A total of 54 eighth-graders walked across the gym floor at James Martin Court to receive their diplomas for promotion to high school at Rogue River Junior Senior High School on Tues., June 9. The soon-to-be-freshmen were the first eighth-grade class at RRJSHS’s new junior high building, completed in time[Read More…]
FD1 Receives Four Bids For Solar Project
Jackson County Fire District 1 Chief Mike Hammond said that by Friday, June 5, the Request for Proposal (RFP) deadline, he had received four proposals for a contractor to install the 180 pole-mounted solar panels on district fire station land at the District 1 Board of Directors’ June 10 meeting.[Read More…]