The River Valley team, made up of players from Rogue River’s and Gold Valley’s Little Leagues, went 0-2 in the ages 9-to-11 baseball bracket at the District 8 All-Star Baseball and Softball Tournaments at Central Point June 20-21. River Valley team fell in the opening round to eventual runner-up Del[Read More…]
Author: Brian Mortensen
Samuels Falls, Comes Back To Win The Big Race
This might be the Year of Jake Samuels, again, at Grants Pass Downs. One of regional horse racing’s top jockeys of the last 10 years, and after a short break away from racing, Samuels is back to win race after race on the entire Northwest racing circuit. Samuels was aboard[Read More…]
Early Rooster Crow History
David Dick spent 29 years as a first responder at the Port of Portland, taking on a variety of duties at the ports on both the Willamette and the Columbia Rivers. He was not a longshoreman, he said at the annual Rogue River All-Alumni Picnic at Palmerton Park, held every[Read More…]
FD1 Staff Positions Receive Raises
The Board of Directors for Jackson County Fire District No. 1 voted 4-1 to raise the salary of its finance manager by seven percent, plus a certain Consumer Price Index (CPI) figure at 36 months, and for the administrative assistant, also at seven percent, plus CPI, at 24 months. Jenna[Read More…]
Big Chain Saw Roars To Rooster Crow Title
Some roosters who enter the National Rooster Crowing Competition held every year in Rogue River (brought to you by the Rogue River Rooster Crow Committee and the Rogue River Kiwanis) are raised from hatchlings, waking their human benefactors at the crack of dawn. These are the roosters whose owners know[Read More…]
Ryan Schlapfer Wins Human Crow
“Peter Pan” was in theaters months before the first of the two Rooster Crow weekends in June 1953. What was the titular character’s cry of victory after vanquishing the evil Captain Hook, but … a rooster’s crow. Ryan Schlapfer picked up on this while watching “Peter Pan,” to a studious[Read More…]
RR Majors Win, Falls Short At District
The Majors baseball team (ages 11 and 12) from Rogue River Little League bought itself another chance to move on in its quest for state Little League competition following a huge consolation-round game on June 21. After falling in a walk-off one-run loss to Brookings on the opening night of[Read More…]
Candidates To Begin Gathering Signatures
Rogue River City Recorder Diane Oliver said Councilman Mark Minegar has completed the paperwork necessary for his first election campaign for city council. It will be only a matter of time before he and other candidates can begin collecting the minimum 25 signatures required to be placed on the Nov.[Read More…]
Lee Bids Farewell, REACH Plans For The Future
In what was the final school board meeting for Superintendent Patrick Lee, Lee used the time for his report to reflect on his seven-year tenure with the district on Tues., June 16. To begin with, he reported that the district had received $14 million in both grant and bond funding,[Read More…]
Improving Numbers And Slime At RRES
Rogue River Elementary School principal Ashtyn James had some data to share with the Rogue River School Board at its first meeting following the end of the school year, during the board’s June 16 meeting. These were the scores in each subject area, the IXL scores her faculty uses to[Read More…]