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…]
Author: Brian Mortensen
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…]
RR Looking To Get New Police Car
Rogue River City Administrator Ryan Nolan said that the city had not planned to buy a new police vehicle. Still, it turns out that at least one is available and that the city might actually need a new one, at the City Council’s workshop session on Thurs., Aug. 6. It[Read More…]
City Reluctantly Accepts Smaller, Steel Reservoir
The rising cost of materials and an underlying soil issue are the reasons the Rogue River City Council consented to a 750,000-gallon water reservoir. The biggest piece of the city’s ongoing project through the Oregon Safe Water Revolving Loan Fund, the enclosed water reservoir, located at ground level, to provide[Read More…]
Fairgrounds, GP Downs Renovating
The Josephine County Fairgrounds, which just hosted its County Fair Wed., July 29, through Sun., Aug. 2, will, piece by piece and in due time, take on a fresh new look in the coming months and years. The first step was improving the seating of the fairgrounds grandstand, replacing worn-out[Read More…]
Council Appoints Copley, Approves Park Events
Moments after she was appointed to Position 1 on the Rogue River City Council, Dee Copley was appointed to two liaison positions to the Rogue River Community Center and to the Tree City, USA, Committee at the council’s Thursday, July 23 meeting. The liaison position for the Tree City, USA[Read More…]