The grim topic of former Rogue River Junior Senior High School teacher and coach Jesse Orndoff’s arrest and the impact of what he is alleged to have done to a student-led Schools Superintendent Patrick Lee to ask the Rogue River School Board if it would be in favor of asking[Read More…]
Author: Brian Mortensen
City To Appoint Minegar To The Vacant Council Seat
After seven months as an all-female body, the Rogue River City Council is prepared to fill its open seat. The city received applications from local businessman Mark Minegar, a city Planning Commission member, and Rev. Dale Schaffner, the pastor of Rogue River Assembly of God Church, who delivered the invocation[Read More…]
LeDoux Scores One Last Bucket On Senior Night
The one game Amanda LeDoux wanted to play was the Chieftains’ final home game, her final home game, on Tues., Feb. 11. LeDoux injured her left knee in a play in the first half against Brookings-Harbor. She did not come back into the game, and she wore a brace on[Read More…]
Chieftains’ Last Chance For League Win
The Rogue River Jr. Sr. High boys’ basketball team, in search of any 3A Southern Oregon Conference win, had two pretty good shots at getting it last week in their Senior Night game at James Martin Court against North Valley on Tues., Feb. 11, or in Lakeview on Sat., Feb.[Read More…]
Chieftains Cheer Uses State To Learn
There are growing pains when taking big steps with any team or sport. The Rogue River Jr. Sr. High Cheer team adjusted to having to wait two days to perform; they had to adjust to an even more significant problem in a senior member of the team spraining an ankle[Read More…]
Jaramillo, Stockman Qualify For State Wrestling
Two wrestlers move on to next week’s Class 3A state girls’ wrestling championships, with what they hope to be several Chieftains’ boys’ wrestling team members joining them through qualifying this weekend in Coquille. Delilah Jaramillo, a junior, and sophomore Kaylee Stockman each qualified Jaramillo by placing second and Stockman third[Read More…]
RRSD Buildings Safe From Snowfall, Regularly Checked
While the collapse of the 60-year-old gym roof at North Medford High School caused officials at other school districts in the region to inspect their facilities following the sudden heavy snowfall in Southern Oregon two weeks ago, no specific inspections were performed on buildings in the Rogue River School District.[Read More…]
EVFD Considers Participating In The Coverage Study
Chief Tom Davidson told the Evans Valley Fire District board at its Thurs., Feb. 6 meeting that the district had been invited to participate in a regionalization study of each of the local fire districts in Jackson County. Because each of the county’s fire districts, with their funding and boards[Read More…]
Orndoff Arrested For Sex Abuse Of Student
People in and around the community of Rogue River Jr. Sr. High School were, in part, astonished, and in another, outraged, at news of the arrest of Jesse Orndoff the morning of Fri., Feb. 14. Orndoff, 30, was arrested after a woman reported to the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office that[Read More…]
‘Not Nice’ Bruins Beat Chiefs At Home
There is no mercy in high school basketball, even in girls’ basketball. Your team is trying to break the other team’s heart win, just as much as the other team is trying to break yours. But if your team comes to the end of a hard season, in which it[Read More…]