Organizers of the 12th Ride The Rogue cycling event, hoping for solid late registration to help bolster what had been a slower than usual pre-registration period, with great late summer/early fall weather through all of last week, received the letdown of letdowns, when on Fri., Sept. 22, smoke from somewhere[Read More…]
Author: Brian Mortensen
Lopez With Nine Wins, A Famous Ribbon Wins Big Race
Through the first three weekends of racing during the Grants Pass Downs Fall Season, Jaime Lopez is the leading jockey, with nine wins in 32 starts. He won four of those races in the Mon., Sept. 18 program, taking each of the first three races and becoming the beneficiary of[Read More…]
Chieftain Boys Still Learning, Score Second Goal
The first all-boys’ Rogue River Jr. Sr. High soccer team in four years, one could say, is slowly acclimating itself to league play. Through its first six matches, the Chieftains have not managed, yet, to play a full match, each of them ending early due to the OSAA’s eight-goal soccer[Read More…]
Chieftains Hold Lost River Scoreless For Half
The Rogue River girls’ soccer team, the school’s first since 2019, is seeing its own incremental improvement through the first few weeks of the season. In its first two road matches of the season, the Chieftains were able to score against a team considered to be among the best in[Read More…]
Chieftains Find Glide Tough At Net, Fall In Three
So much of volleyball is movement and defending the floor, but at the same, to win matches, teams have to find a way to authoritatively hit the ball over the net and hit the other team’s floor. Not being able to mount an offensive attack, against even time like Glide,[Read More…]
Cougars Run Through Chieftains In League Opener
Take a bad start, that keeps getting worse from there, adding up that it’s against your closest rival, to whom you lost by a similar score a year ago, in your league opener, and you wind up not only with a frustrating loss, but with a lot of residual frustration.[Read More…]
Junior Chieftains Split Volleyball Opener Vs. Warriors
The next crop of Rogue River volleyball players started their new season on their home court in the Junior Chieftains’ middle school-level opener at the Rogue River Elementary School-West Gym on Mon., Sept. 18. The Junior Chieftains opened with New Hope Christian, the teams splitting the two matches. Rogue River[Read More…]
Board Hires OutlierBuild For Wellness Center Project
The Rogue River School Board voted to hire OutlierBuild of Medford to lead the design-build team for the wellness and early learning center built through funds provided by the Oregon Legislature in 2021 at its meeting on Tues., Sept. 19. OutlierBuild will conduct site reviews, followed by design work. Lee[Read More…]
Fire Chiefs Talk With Senate Staffers
Evans Valley Fire District Chief Tom Davidson said he and a group of several local chiefs had recently met with staffers from the offices of Senator Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden to discuss the needs of small rural fire departments like his in Southern Oregon at the Evans Valley Fire[Read More…]
Nearly 300 Expected For Ride The Rogue Saturday
Cyclists from all over the region, as many as 300 expected, as in 2022, will be on the roads throughout the valley, for the 12th Ride The Rogue cycling event on Sat., Sept. 23. There are three rides, starting in the morning, all beginning and ending at Palmerton Park. The[Read More…]
