The Rogue River City Council announced the top five statewide issues on which it voted to be submitted to the League of Oregon Cities at its meeting on Thurs., Aug 27. The ranked choices, from a list of 27, will be submitted to the league and compiled with rankings from[Read More…]
Author: Brian Mortensen
Chieftain PRIDE To Enhance School
Rogue River Junior/Senior High principal Tori Kirkpatrick announced an initiative to promote the Pride and Image goal, one of the overall goals of the Rogue River School District at the Junior/Senior High School. She said Chieftain PRIDE emerged from a meeting between staff and students last spring about what “pride”[Read More…]
Chieftain Cheer Has Big Dreams
Rogue River Jr. Sr. High School’s most successful, maybe its most exciting team, on a statewide level, the last two years has been its Cheerleading team. In its competitive season, the Chieftains team improved on its 12th-place finish in 2025 to fourth place at state at the competition held on[Read More…]
Chieftain Boys’ Starting Over In New 2A-1A League
It seems as though, just when the Rogue River JSHS boys’ soccer program started to gain momentum after its dormant season in 2021 and its run as a co-ed team in 2022, finally getting a foothold with numbers and a set of dedicated younger players, the Chieftains are starting back[Read More…]
Girls’ Soccer Team Looks To Make Another Playoff Run In ’26
It has been wild watching the improvement of the Rogue River Jr. Sr. High girls’ soccer in the three years since Clyde Fields was hired to lead the program in June 2023. The 4-24 record through the first two seasons turned out to be a buildup to what became the[Read More…]
Westlake Adds Volleyball To RR Coaching Experience
Jill Westlake didn’t play volleyball when she attended Rogue River High School. In her autumns, while she was becoming an all-Skyline Conference catcher for the Chieftain softball teams in the spring, she was on the soccer pitch. Move ahead just over 20 years, and Westlake has a daughter who has[Read More…]
Chiefs Look To Break Into Playoffs
The Rogue River Jr. Sr. High football team came as close as it had in at least seven years to making a state playoff berth, the school’s first since 2002, after winning three of its first four Class 2A District 5 games last year. What the Chieftains (4-5 in 2025)[Read More…]
Chiefs Fall In First Game To Bigger Bruins
If Rogue River Jr. Sr. High football is to go where it wants to go, that is, into the Class 2A state football playoffs, it will face deep teams with lots of big personnel it can slot in and out throughout the game. A good local equivalent was a 3A[Read More…]
City Council Accepts C-R Zone
Following its referral from the Rogue River Planning Commission, the City Council approved establishing the Commercial-Residential (C-R) zoning, allowing both types of use in an area just outside downtown. The council opted to discuss Commercial Zone design standards that the Planning Commission had also referred to at the council’s meeting[Read More…]
Jamboree A Success
It’s too bad, in some cases, football jamborees don’t count as games. Structured to play several teams of similar size and skill level, they’re a pre-season exhibition for both players and coaches, but sometimes they’re played as competitively as midseason games, in conditions even more challenging than game conditions. The[Read More…]