Taking a cue from last year, the Rogue River Jr. Sr. High track and field team was able to enter a meet on the same track as its eventual district meet later on in the season. In this case, the Chieftains were one of two smaller local schools added to[Read More…]
Author: Brian Mortensen
Chiefs Can’t Stop Knights From League Title
For a Rogue River Jr. Sr. High softball team playing its first games in nearly three weeks, it was going to be difficult trying to stop No. 6 North Valley, trying to win its first softball league title in 33 years, last week. The Knights mostly put it all together[Read More…]
Chieftains Team Limping Toward The Finish
Coming off its best effort of the season in a one-run loss to 4A Hidden Valley, the week before, those around the Rogue River Jr. Sr. High baseball team could have been excused for belief that their team had a shot not only to win its first Class 3A Southern[Read More…]
City To Present Resolution Supporting Bentz FEMA Bill
Rogue River City Administrator Ryan Nolan, with support from the Rogue River Rogue River City Administrator Ryan Nolan, with support from the Rogue River City Council, drafted a resolution supporting House Resolution 7862, the National Flood Insurance Program Act of 2026, during the City Council workshop on Thursday, May 7.[Read More…]
Baker Sentenced In Wimer Hit-and-Run Case
Jason Allan Baker, the man who struck a Wimer woman and her horse with his vehicle while she was helping move horses along Queens Branch Road on a Sunday night in January 2025, was convicted in Jackson County Circuit Court on four charges and sentenced to eight years in prison[Read More…]
School District Keeps SVA Staffing
The Rogue River School District Budget Committee faced the task of cutting between $425,000 and $450,000 from its budget during its annual meeting on Wednesday, May 6. Superintendent Patrick Lee opened the meeting by explaining that the district’s budget message had already been revised before the committee convened, based on[Read More…]
City Honors Police Week
Mayor Pro-Tem Barb Hilty, who presided over the Thurs., April 23 Rogue River City Council meeting, read a proclamation in honor of National Police Week and Peace Officers Memorial Day. Both occasions were introduced by a proclamation from President John F. Kennedy in 1962: Peace Officers Memorial Day on May[Read More…]
Land Leads Team In Final Laurel Hill Tourney
On a perfect day in the Rogue Valley and at Laurel Hill Golf Course, the Rogue River Jr. Sr. High golf team played for the last time this season on its home course and honored its seniors on Tuesday, May 5. As it happened, the Chieftains’ lone senior presented the[Read More…]
RR FFA Students Qualify For National Meet
Rogue River Junior/Senior High School principal Tori Kirkpatrick reported that the school’s FFA chapter had the first-place-finishing team in Nursery and the second-place team in Floriculture at the state FFA convention on Tuesday, April 21, at the Rogue River School Board meeting. The school will send teams from Nursery and[Read More…]
Chieftain Hitters Come Through In Close Game
The Rogue River Jr. Sr. High baseball team isn’t having the kind of season it thought it was going to have at its beginning in March, having just one win since its banner two-win day opening day, and that win happened now more than a month ago. But the three[Read More…]