The Rogue River School District’s 2024-25 school year will start after Labor Day for the first time in several years. The Rogue River School Board adopted the calendar at its Tues., March 19 meeting. The year starts on Tues., September 3, the day after Labor Day. The 2024-25 school year[Read More…]
Author: Brian Mortensen
Chieftains Change Leagues In 2A Football Shake-Up
The Rogue River Jr. Sr. High varsity football schedule has not been completed, but what is certain is that the Chieftains will be in a new league within Class 2A next year. With the return of schools from Class 1A, with Salem Academy dropping from Class 3A to 2A, and[Read More…]
Junior Chiefs First, Second At Middle School Meet
Behind 12 top-four finishes by eight different athletes, Rogue River won the boys’ division of its opening Southern Oregon Middle School Athletic Conference track and field meet at Spiegelberg Stadium in Medford on Thurs., March 14. The Chieftains finished with 159 points, beating out St. Mary’s’ 151 points in the[Read More…]
Chieftains Struggle In Trips To Coastal Towns
The Rogue River Jr. Sr. High baseball team started its season off with a pair of narrow non-league losses, but started its 3A Far West League season running into one of the league’s top teams, Brookings-Harbor. The Bruins (2-2, 2-0) were one of the three teams from the Far West,[Read More…]
Collision At Depot And Classic
Neither driver was cited, and neither was hurt when a service vehicle and a sedan collided in the intersection of Depot Street and Classick Drive at about 2:30 p.m., on Thurs., March 21. The vehicles appear to have met while both vehicles were turning on to Pine Street from Depot,[Read More…]
Chiefs Earn Dramatic Sweep Vs. Bruins
The arc of the Rogue River Jr. Sr. High softball team’s entire season may have been changed by a single text message sent the weekend before last. The text came to Chieftains softball coach Jill Westlake from her team’s first baseman from last season. That’s Suzy Smith. Smith is a[Read More…]
New Chief Hopes For ‘Night Out,’ Accreditation
Chief David Rash appeared, for the first time, in uniform in presenting his first report to the Rogue River City Council at its Thurs., March 22 Workshop. The Chief also revealed other plans and goals for his new department over the next year or so. He said he would provide[Read More…]
New JSHS Vice Principal Hired; AD Leaving
The Rogue River School Board approved the hire of current South Umpqua High School graduation coach Emily Figueroa-Wolfe as the new vice principal at Rogue River Junior Senior High School at its Tues., March 19 meeting. Figueroa-Wolfe will work with RRJSHS principal Tori Kirkpatrick, the school’s vice principal, before she[Read More…]
District Considers Extra Training For Engine Drivers
An incident during an unexpected and quickly developing snowstorm on Fri., March 1, caused Evans Valley Fire Chief Tom Davidson to consider how volunteer fire personnel who drive the district’s expensive fire apparatus are trained and what the cost in terms of potential volunteers might be in the future at[Read More…]
Climbers Compete, Visit Palmerton With Care
Mike Oxendine, an arborist who lives in Talent, was on hand at the Thurs., March 22 Rogue River City Council Workshop to answer questions about a tree-climbing contest within the Palmerton Park Arboretum next week. The contest is the Pacific Northwest Chapter of the International Society of Arboriculture (PNW-ISA) Southern[Read More…]