Rogue River Junior Senior High will have a new boys’ basketball coach this fall, and, in a development almost as surprising, it will keep its girls’ basketball coach from its partial season a year ago. RRJSHS Athletic Coordinator Kyle Garrison confirmed that Max Javernick, who served as boys’ basketball coach[Read More…]
Author: Brian Mortensen
South Valley School Adding School For Kinder Through 2nd Grade
Since its opening in 2018 as what the Rogue River calls a “destination” school, the online/brick-and-mortar hybrid South Valley Academy has served students from third grade through their senior high school year. Beginning this year, South Valley Academy will complete the circuit with an online-only curriculum for its youngest students[Read More…]
Back-To-School Events Planned At RR Campuses
Believe it or not, school starts next week, and each of the schools in and around the Rogue River School District is holding back-to-school events for parents to see their children’s schools and get students back into the swing of school South Valley Academy’s Back to School Night at its[Read More…]
City RR Talk Water, Power, And Alerts During A Fire
In the aftermath of the closest fire events to the city of Rogue River in years, most of the early part of the Rogue River City Council’s discussion focused on the Fielder Mountain Fire, which sparked in the hills just west of the city on Thursday, Aug. 13. Police Chief[Read More…]
EVFD Board Holds Brief August Meeting
The Evans Valley Fire District Board of Directors held its monthly meeting Thursday, Aug. 13, in what may have been one of the shortest meetings in district history. With no significant business on the agenda and Fire Chief Tom Davidson occupied with the newly developing Fielder Mountain Fire, the board[Read More…]
Eight Apply For RRFD Chief Position
With the deadline to apply to become the new fire chief at Jackson County District 1 having passed at the end of July, the district wound up with eight applicants for consideration. The board geared up for a busy September that will include interviews with several applicants who advanced through[Read More…]
Savage Creek Road Property Possible Annexation
Jackson County Fire District Chief Mike Hammond presented a list of 21 properties on Savage Creek Road, three located in Jackson County, the rest in Josephine County, all but one of them within a seven-mile radius of the District 1 fire station at the district’s Board of Directors meeting on[Read More…]
C-R Zoning Moves On To City Council
After months of discussion, the Rogue River Planning Commission heard nearly no questions or resistance toward unanimously referring the establishment of a Commercial-Residential zone outside of the main downtown corridor in Rogue River, and commercial design standards within the Commercial Zone, to the City Council at the commission’s meeting on[Read More…]
Fire Department Uses Tablet Command, Ultrasound
Jackson County Fire District 1 Chief Mike Hammond said his department began using Tablet Command in the previous week, to great results, at the district’s Board of Directors meeting on Wed., Aug. 12. Tablet Command provides mapping that Hammond said was improved over the in-vehicle data system that had been[Read More…]
Fielder Mountain Fire Close To Contained
A cargo truck that stopped to tend to its hot brakes and caught vegetation on fire at Milepost 51 on Interstate 5 in the afternoon on Thurs., Aug. 13, was the reported cause of the Fielder Mountain Fire that immediately caused road closures and a Level 3 “Go now” evacuation[Read More…]