The Rogue River Jr. Sr. High junior high football team ended its season on a rough note, falling to Lincoln Savage and its relentless running attack 38-0, the team’s final game at Chieftain Stadium on Wednesday, Oct. 14. The Junior Chieftains were handicapped early after eighth-grade running back Zane Wardle[Read More…]
Author: Brian Mortensen
Chief Girls Close Season
On its way through what should be its second straight season ending in the state small-school girls’ soccer playoffs, Rogue River Jr. Sr. High’s team appeared to survive what could be described as a “trap door” game in its stop in Coquille on Tuesday, Oct. 13. Playing on the narrow[Read More…]
EVFD Board Discusses Policy On Meeting Absences
The Evans Valley Fire District Board of Directors took its first look at revising its policy regarding itself, the district’s board of directors, at its Thursday, Oct. 8, meeting. The board covered the first two sections of the policy it is reviewing for revision, including board membership. Chairman Kathryn Henning[Read More…]
Savage Creek Annexation Is About A Year Out
The Jackson County Fire District 1 Board of Directors gave Chief Mike Hammond its endorsement to continue efforts to move the annexation of 21 properties on Savage Creek Road, located in Josephine County, into the Rogue River district. Hammond said, at the Wednesday, Oct. 14 meeting, he had received the[Read More…]
Junior High Volleyball Finishes Season
The Rogue River Jr. Sr. High junior high volleyball team finished its home schedule last week with a match against Fleming at the Rogue River Elementary School West campus gym, falling to the Cavaliers 25-11, 25-13, 15-10. The team concludes its 11-match season on Wednesday, Oct. 14. Breanna Ferrel, in[Read More…]
Miss Royal Hawk Wins By Nose In Far West Futurity
Miss Royal Hawk, who won her qualifier race for the Firecracker Futurity in June but stumbled to a second-place finish on the Fourth of July, qualified as the top seed in the Far West Futurity three months ago and stayed strong until the end of a win in the $82,000[Read More…]
District Starts Year With Enrollment Increase
At the first meeting of the Rogue River School District on Tuesday, Sept. 15, Dr. April Harrison, the district’s new superintendent, and a couple of her principals commented on growth, mostly in enrollment, that had already taken place in just the first week of the school year. School administrators are[Read More…]
Chief Girls Honor Seniors, Blast Glide 8-0
Three of the Chieftains’ five seniors scored in the team’s final regular-season home match, the Senior Night win against Glide on Thursday, Oct. 8. Carmen Brown, the team’s leading scorer, who scored the team’s first goal in the first match in the rejuvenated girls’ soccer program’s first season in 2023,[Read More…]
Boys’ Soccer Set For Big Final Matches
The Rogue River Jr. Sr. High boys’ soccer team was set to take on the biggest hurdle in its quest to reach the state playoffs in the first year of the new Class 2A/1A boys’ soccer class, against 8-1 and No. 9 Pacific in Port Orford on Tuesday, Oct. 13.[Read More…]
Chiefs Knock Down Defending Champs
In this season of long-sought-out football respectability for the Rogue River Jr. High program, another kryptonite program fell at their feet on their home turf. This time, it was Lost River, the Class 2A (and sometimes 1A) powerhouse that has won three state championships in the last four years and[Read More…]