Reagan Alden reached a goal both she and her father, Dan, who works as her pole vault coach, set: breaking 10 feet in the pole vault, helping her finish third at last year’s Class 3A state meet at 10 feet, 0 ¾ of an inch. At Illinois Valley, at its[Read More…]
Author: Brian Mortensen
Lightning Strike Leads To Emergency Response
Public Works Director Michael Bollweg shared a little more about the sewer lift station on the south side of the Rogue River that was struck by lightning earlier this month at the Rogue River City Council meeting on Thursday, April 23. He said that the particular lift station differs from[Read More…]
Chiefs At Two Meets Last Week
Track and field athletes can count down, when they get to a certain point in the season, to the number of meets before the important ones on the schedule, the district and state meets. Before last Wed., April 22, the Rogue River Jr. Sr. High track and field team had[Read More…]
Seniors-Sophs Win, Behind Garwood, Defense
Playing at Beck Field for the first time in any recent memory, the Rogue River Jr. Sr. High School Powderpuff Football Game didn’t have to resort to spontaneous rule changes that allowed “one more play” to allow for a big finish, in last year’s case, a long touchdown run by[Read More…]
Chiefs Are Working On Putting In The Late Season
Players on the Rogue River Jr.-Sr. golf team will spend their last two weeks fine-tuning their games in time for their district meets. The Chieftain girls’ team played a practice round at Running Y Golf and Country Club in Klamath Falls, where the Class 4A/3A/2A/1A District 5 tournament will be[Read More…]
Chiefs Stay In Game Against No. 2 Challengers
Dustin Morton did everything he could to keep his Rogue River Jr. Sr. High baseball team competitive against one of the best Class 3A teams in the state on its home field, in the rain. The senior threw a complete game, 107 pitches over the five innings in the rain-shortened[Read More…]
RR Softball, Just Waiting For A Game
It’s hard enough trying to schedule games when you have a 16-day gap built into the time you’re usually playing a league schedule. Throw in a little rainstorm on the day you scheduled a game to fill in, and you begin to wonder if you’ll play again. Barring an extended[Read More…]
Gov’s ‘Recovery’ Order May Cause Snow Day Issues
Superintendent Patrick Lee commented on an Executive Order from Gov. Tina Kotek to achieve the stated goal of protecting and restoring student instructional time statewide at the Tues., April 21 meeting of the Rogue River School Board. “This was in response to a large number of states across the state[Read More…]
Special Programs Keeps Students Fed
The Rogue River School District has, for years, found a way to, behind the scenes, help students stay in school and keep coming back. Quay Goff, the secretary for the district’s Special Programs staff and head of the district’s “Backpack program,” addressed what she and others have done to help[Read More…]
Chief Emphasizes ‘Staying Within Means’
Before the nine members of the Evans Valley Fire District Budget Committee, including the five members of the district’s board of directors and four lay members, with one absent, Fire Chief Tom Davidson pointed the committee to the “big pieces of paper”. On those 11×18-inch sheets, the district’s 10-year outlook[Read More…]