Ready for a chance to play a team closer to its size than its Week One opponent, 3A Brookings-Harbor, the Rogue River Jr. Sr. High football team didn’t get a reprieve against local rival, sometimes in league, sometimes not, Glide on the road on Fri., Sept. 11 in a 46-21[Read More…]
Author: Brian Mortensen
Junior Chieftains Win First, At Eagle Point
Zane Wardle scored a pair of touchdowns and ran for 120 yards, as the Rogue River Jr. Sr. High Junior High-level football team won at Talent 26-12 in its first game of the season on Wed., Sept. 9. Dane Alvarez Jr. is the Junior Chieftains coach this fall, with Derek[Read More…]
Chiefs Win After Taking Mercy Rule Loss
It has been a rough patch for Rogue River boys’ soccer over the last eight to 10 years. Never mind having Cascade Christian and St. Mary’s to deal with all those years. There were seasons after the Decker and Poston brothers graduated, and then it became hard to field teams,[Read More…]
Fielder Mountain Fire Followed A Straight Line
When Jackson County Fire District 1 Chief Mike Hammond reported on his perspective of the Fielder Mountain Fire Aug. 13-14 to the district’s board of directors on Wed., Sept. 9, he was still amazed. “It’s amazing to me even today that we did not lose any structures out there (on[Read More…]
Downs Honors Trainer Irwin
Three jockeys rose to the top of the jockeys standings through the first of five weekends of the Grants Pass Downs Fall season, which started on Sun., Sept. 13, and continued through Mon., Sept 14. Veteran jockey Jake Nunnally won the fourth and fifth races on opening day, Sept. 13,[Read More…]
Chiefs Beat Knights
Fans at the opening match for Rogue River Jr. Sr. High’s boys’ soccer team, when it had a 3-1 lead in the first half against North Valley on Thursday, Sept. 3, couldn’t be blamed if they were thinking of a similar game at Beck Field last season in which the[Read More…]
Chiefs Get Good Start
In its first match since its five-set, come-from-behind win at New Hope Christian, the Rogue River Jr. Sr. High volleyball team had a competitive start at Glendale playing to a 28-26 first-set loss, but the host Pirates won the match 3-0, 28-26, 25-17. 25-15. After a match at 1A Yoncalla,[Read More…]
Council Picks Its Five Legislative Priorities
The Rogue River City Council announced the top five statewide issues on which it voted to be submitted to the League of Oregon Cities at its meeting on Thurs., Aug 27. The ranked choices, from a list of 27, will be submitted to the league and compiled with rankings from[Read More…]
Chieftain PRIDE To Enhance School
Rogue River Junior/Senior High principal Tori Kirkpatrick announced an initiative to promote the Pride and Image goal, one of the overall goals of the Rogue River School District at the Junior/Senior High School. She said Chieftain PRIDE emerged from a meeting between staff and students last spring about what “pride”[Read More…]
Chieftain Cheer Has Big Dreams
Rogue River Jr. Sr. High School’s most successful, maybe its most exciting team, on a statewide level, the last two years has been its Cheerleading team. In its competitive season, the Chieftains team improved on its 12th-place finish in 2025 to fourth place at state at the competition held on[Read More…]