The Rogue River School Board, at its Tues, December 16 meeting, began discussing two statewide board policies related to supplemental instructional materials, IIA and IIAB, in the wake of a controversy in which a 39-second video that included an animated depiction of a sex act was shown in a seventh-grade[Read More…]
Author: Brian Mortensen
First Half Burst Pushes Tigers Past Chiefs
A 14-0 streak in the second period put Rogue River Jr. Sr. High’s boys’ basketball team into a double-figure hole, and the Chieftains couldn’t climb out in a 71-50 loss at 2A Clatskanie in the Chieftains’ last game before Christmas. The game completed a brief two-game road trip to far[Read More…]
Christmas Concert At RRES Entertains
Students at Rogue River Elementary School, whether they did so on their own or with their teachers’ or parents’ suggestion, looked their most Christmas-y, as they sang, and, if they were in kindergarten, motioned with their hands, during the school’s Christmas Concert on Thurs., Dec. 18. The choirs of all[Read More…]
Jaramillo, Stockman Dominate For Chief Girls
It was just a matter of time before Rogue River Jr. Sr. High’s top senior wrestler started having some success at the December tournaments in which the Chieftains compete, and Delilah Jaramillo delivered. She won each of her three matches at 170 pounds, as the No. 1 seed, by pin,[Read More…]
Gervasi, Homan, Wardle Highlight At Coquille
The Rogue River boys’ wrestling team, without its top upper-weight wrestler, earned a tournament title from its top lower-weight wrestler and a big performance from a highly anticipated freshman on its trip to Coquille on Friday, Dec. 19. The Chieftains finished eighth at the Coquille Holiday Boys’ Tournament with 10[Read More…]
Old COVID Funds To Be Used
The Rogue River City Council, at its meeting on Thurs, Dec. 18, approved an agreement for funding to be used on improvements on Depot Street and Rogue River Highway through a listing in the Oregon Statewide Transportation Improvement Program. City Administrator Ryan Nolan said the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT)[Read More…]
School Board Recesses During Meeting
A second school board meeting that included testimony regarding the showing of a short, animated video with a depiction of a sexual act in a middle school social studies class, became heated, with the entire Rogue River School Board stopping the meeting during the Good of the Order public comment[Read More…]
Middle School Boys Close Out Season
The Rogue River Jr. Sr. High middle school-level boys’ basketball teams closed out their seasons last week. The Junior Chieftain varsity team beat St. Mary’s 27-22 in Medford on Mon., Dec. 8, and lost to Lorna Byrne 31-27 in Cave Junction on Wed., Dec. 4, before it closed out its[Read More…]
RRJSHS ‘Play Down’ Approved For Next Four Years
With the aim to give student-athletes at Rogue River Jr. Sr. High School “a better chance to compete” at least through the next four seasons beginning with the 2026-27 school year, the school’s application to “play down” and move into Class 2A was approved, along with the placement of the[Read More…]
Chief Boys Have Three Champions At Scio
Provided they remain healthy, Rogue River’s male wrestlers could have a special season this year. Two wrestlers, Lucas Gunn at 175 pounds and Gianni Gervasi at 132 won weight-class titles each for the second week in a row at the Gary McDaniels Memorial Tournament at Scio on Sat., Dec. 13.[Read More…]