The Rogue Renegades’ fourth-and-fifth-grade boys’ basketball team finished the regular season unbeaten at 7-0 and is waiting to meet their next opponent in the league playoffs. The Renegades earned a first-round bye and the No. 1 seed. Their first playoff game is on Saturday, March 8. The team finished the[Read More…]
Author: Brian Mortensen
Roberts Announces Meeting On Wildfire Map
Jackson County Commissioner Colleen Roberts announced, at the Thurs., Feb. 27 meeting of the Rogue River City Council, a town hall meeting concerning the Oregon Statewide Wildfire Hazard Map. The meeting is on Saturday, March 8, at White Mountain Middle School in White City (550 Wilson Way), from 2 to[Read More…]
City Receives $250K
At its Thursday, Feb. 27 meeting, the Rogue River City Council agreed to accept a $250,000 grant from the Oregon Department of Transportation’s Small City Allotment grant program for street improvements. The work through the grant will focus on Pine Street, Oak Street, and First Street. The work on Pine[Read More…]
The Bus Stop Changed South Of The River
Members of the Rogue River City Council who wanted to move the Josephine County Transit bus stop from the front of the Rogue River Community Center to Rogue River on JCT’s route between Grants Pass and Medford got their wish last month. The stop was moved across the river to[Read More…]
Howard Competes In First OHSET Meet
Victoria Howard, a freshman who Rogue River Jr. Sr. High’s sole equestrian performer this season, competed for the first in the Oregon High School Equestrian Teams Southern District’s first meet Fri.-Sun., Feb. 14-16. She competed in four timed events and teamed up with performers from Grants Pass High’s team for[Read More…]
Chiefs Earn First League Win Since 2019
Even if the results hadn’t shown any growth, with a 1-20 record and several losses where, close or losses by 20 or more, the games would come down to one quarter where their play would fail them, the Rogue River Jr. Sr. High boys’ basketball team, the kernel of a[Read More…]
First-Year Students Qualify For State Wrestling
It’s been a season like no other since Rob Isom became Rogue River Jr. Sr. High’s wrestling coach 10 years ago. It didn’t just happen all at once, with injuries that affected the Chieftains’ prospects at the Class 3A District 3 Championships happening as far back as December. Still, a[Read More…]
Chieftain Girls End Season With Losses
The Rogue River Jr. Sr. High girls’ basketball team was looking for a second win against St. Mary’s, this time in Medford, and had a strong first half, leading the Crusaders 21-18. St. Mary’s, behind freshmen Bailey Stricker and Avery Gunn, outscored the Chieftains 39-11 in the second half to[Read More…]
Junior Chieftains End Girls’ Basketball Season
The Rogue River Jr. Sr. High middle-school-level girls’ basketball teams played their final games of the season in what already felt like a short season because of the mid-season snowstorm that canceled two of the team’s dates. A combined Junior Chieftains team fell at Ruch on Wed., Feb. 12, 22-5,[Read More…]
Hutsell Earns State Office, Several Earn Places At FFA Sectional
Madisyn Hutsell, a junior at Rogue River Jr. Sr. High School, was named District Secretary for the Southern Oregon district of Future Farmers of America at the Southern Oregon FFA District Convention at Hidden Valley High School Feb. 13-14. Hutsell held the Reporter position for the Southern Oregon district during[Read More…]