Two types of businesses affected by changes enacted by the City of Rogue River to help fund recruitment and retention of police officers are self-storage facilities and short-term recreational vehicle courts. Representatives appeared before the City Council at its Thursday, Oct. 1 workshop session to appeal for relief from increases[Read More…]
Author: Brian Mortensen
Volleyball Team Back For Final Match
The Rogue River Jr. Sr. High volleyball team is playing its last two road games in the school’s first campaign, of any sport, in the Chieftain teams’ new Class 2A home, the East Cascades Conference, this week. The Chieftains (5-10) were getting a firsthand look at a league in which[Read More…]
City Offers Play In The Parks II
Groups of school children, all out of school on a school in-service day, the first day of a four-day holiday weekend, along with younger children with grandparents, were enjoying an unseasonably sunny day on Fri., Oct. 9. Several came for the second-annual Play in the Parks Day, at which participants,[Read More…]
‘Ready RR’ What Worked In Evacuations
The Wards Creek Restoration Initiative (WCRI) hosted the second meeting of the “Ready Rogue River?” at the Live Oak Grange. This time, the focus of the second round-table-style gathering was evaluating the response to the Fielder Creek Fire, the closest instance of a wildfire, asking the questions: what worked and[Read More…]
Junior Chieftains Eight-Game Streak Ends
The first rule about winning streaks is that they’re awesome. The second one is that they end. The Rogue River Jr. Sr. High junior high football team had won its first three games this season in following its undefeated 5-0 season last year, but faced a Lorna Byrne team that[Read More…]
Chief Boys Win, Take Tough Losses
The Rogue River Jr. Sr. High boys’ soccer team will have to do a lot of their work toward making the state playoffs, with four of their final five matches away from Beck Field. The Chieftains (4-4) fell to 2-2 in Class 2A-1A District 3 with a pair of losses[Read More…]
RRSD, Orndoff Victim, Insurance Company Settle
The case involving the financial compensation for the victim of sexual abuse by a former teacher, coach, and athletic director at Rogue River Junior Senior High School was settled in a Jackson County Circuit Courtroom on Thursday, Sept. 17. The victim, a former student at RRJSHS, will receive $1,650,000, paid[Read More…]
Chief Girls Fight, But Fall To Bruins
The Rogue River Jr. Sr. High girls’ soccer team played two matches over a four-day period that would likely indicate where they might place in their league, Class 3A/2A/1A District 3. The Chieftains (6-4, 5-2) passed the first step with a 2-1 win on the hot artificial turf at Sutherlin[Read More…]
Perry And Hitson-Guijar Homecoming Royalty
Arielle Perry and Nathan Hitson-Guijar were crowned Rogue River Junior Senior High School’s Homecoming Royalty during halftime of the Oct. 2 football game against St. Mary’s. For the second consecutive year, the St. Mary’s matchup served as the Homecoming game. This year’s date allowed students preparing for an upcoming FFA[Read More…]
Crusaders Spoil Chiefs’ Homecoming
The Rogue River Jr. Sr. High football team’s game on Friday, Oct. 2, seemed to be a complete reversal of the Chieftains’ 2025 game against St. Mary’s. While the Chieftains piled up 65 points in a high-scoring but fairly easy win against the Crusaders, on Homecoming Night in 2025, it[Read More…]