The case involving the financial compensation for the victim of sexual abuse by a former teacher, coach, and athletic director at Rogue River Junior Senior High School was settled in a Jackson County Circuit Courtroom on Thursday, Sept. 17. The victim, a former student at RRJSHS, will receive $1,650,000, paid[Read More…]
Author: Brian Mortensen
Chief Girls Fight, But Fall To Bruins
The Rogue River Jr. Sr. High girls’ soccer team played two matches over a four-day period that would likely indicate where they might place in their league, Class 3A/2A/1A District 3. The Chieftains (6-4, 5-2) passed the first step with a 2-1 win on the hot artificial turf at Sutherlin[Read More…]
Perry And Hitson-Guijar Homecoming Royalty
Arielle Perry and Nathan Hitson-Guijar were crowned Rogue River Junior Senior High School’s Homecoming Royalty during halftime of the Oct. 2 football game against St. Mary’s. For the second consecutive year, the St. Mary’s matchup served as the Homecoming game. This year’s date allowed students preparing for an upcoming FFA[Read More…]
Crusaders Spoil Chiefs’ Homecoming
The Rogue River Jr. Sr. High football team’s game on Friday, Oct. 2, seemed to be a complete reversal of the Chieftains’ 2025 game against St. Mary’s. While the Chieftains piled up 65 points in a high-scoring but fairly easy win against the Crusaders, on Homecoming Night in 2025, it[Read More…]
City Adopts New Financial Audit Features
The City of Rogue River’s annual financial audit for the 2024-25 fiscal year identified deficiencies related to internal controls over the calculation and presentation of accounts payable and accounts receivable aging summaries. The City Council adopted a Corrective Action Plan to strengthen its financial reporting procedures and reduce the risk[Read More…]
Ready Rogue River Roundtable
Preparation was the message in the first of two free community workshops, presented by the Wards Creek Restoration Initiative, at the Live Oak Grange (120 Gardiner Street) on Sat., Sept. 19. The second one is this coming Saturday, Oct. 3, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The first response, naturally,[Read More…]
Chief Girls Able To Shake Off Loss
The Rogue River Jr. Sr. High girls’ soccer team demonstrated that it had moved on from its painful-but-not-crushing loss to St. Mary’s when, two days later, the Chieftains beat Siuslaw, a new team to Class 3A/2A/1A District 3, 2-0 on Thurs., Sept. 24. Sophomore midfielders Vera Brown and Shelby Hutsell[Read More…]
Blakely Chosen To Lead Fire District 1
Dave Blakely, the Deputy Chief of Operations at Applegate Fire District, was provisionally hired by the Board of Directors at Jackson County Fire District 1 on Thurs. Sept. 24. The hiring process, following Chief Mike Hammond’s announcement in June that he would retire at the end of the year, was[Read More…]
Smaller Ride, Big Greenway Plans
Ride the Rogue, which celebrated its 20th anniversary since its first event in 2006 last weekend, on Sept. 26, has always been the main fundraiser for the effort to expand and maintain the Rogue River Greenway. But with rides of three lengths on backroads through the area, with, of course,[Read More…]
Chieftains Reverse Panther Curse, Stop 36-Year Streak
The previous week, the Rogue River Jr. Sr. High football team settled a year-old score with its win against Hayfork, Calif. Last week, the Chieftains settled a different kind of score, one that might have involved their own fathers and uncles and dozens of RR alums who played in the[Read More…]