Rogue River City Administrator Ryan Nolan, with support from the Rogue River Rogue River City Administrator Ryan Nolan, with support from the Rogue River City Council, drafted a resolution supporting House Resolution 7862, the National Flood Insurance Program Act of 2026, during the City Council workshop on Thursday, May 7.[Read More…]
Author: Brian Mortensen
Baker Sentenced In Wimer Hit-and-Run Case
Jason Allan Baker, the man who struck a Wimer woman and her horse with his vehicle while she was helping move horses along Queens Branch Road on a Sunday night in January 2025, was convicted in Jackson County Circuit Court on four charges and sentenced to eight years in prison[Read More…]
School District Keeps SVA Staffing
The Rogue River School District Budget Committee faced the task of cutting between $425,000 and $450,000 from its budget during its annual meeting on Wednesday, May 6. Superintendent Patrick Lee opened the meeting by explaining that the district’s budget message had already been revised before the committee convened, based on[Read More…]
City Honors Police Week
Mayor Pro-Tem Barb Hilty, who presided over the Thurs., April 23 Rogue River City Council meeting, read a proclamation in honor of National Police Week and Peace Officers Memorial Day. Both occasions were introduced by a proclamation from President John F. Kennedy in 1962: Peace Officers Memorial Day on May[Read More…]
Land Leads Team In Final Laurel Hill Tourney
On a perfect day in the Rogue Valley and at Laurel Hill Golf Course, the Rogue River Jr. Sr. High golf team played for the last time this season on its home course and honored its seniors on Tuesday, May 5. As it happened, the Chieftains’ lone senior presented the[Read More…]
RR FFA Students Qualify For National Meet
Rogue River Junior/Senior High School principal Tori Kirkpatrick reported that the school’s FFA chapter had the first-place-finishing team in Nursery and the second-place team in Floriculture at the state FFA convention on Tuesday, April 21, at the Rogue River School Board meeting. The school will send teams from Nursery and[Read More…]
Chieftain Hitters Come Through In Close Game
The Rogue River Jr. Sr. High baseball team isn’t having the kind of season it thought it was going to have at its beginning in March, having just one win since its banner two-win day opening day, and that win happened now more than a month ago. But the three[Read More…]
Alden Reaches Pole Vault Best
Reagan Alden reached a goal both she and her father, Dan, who works as her pole vault coach, set: breaking 10 feet in the pole vault, helping her finish third at last year’s Class 3A state meet at 10 feet, 0 ¾ of an inch. At Illinois Valley, at its[Read More…]
Lightning Strike Leads To Emergency Response
Public Works Director Michael Bollweg shared a little more about the sewer lift station on the south side of the Rogue River that was struck by lightning earlier this month at the Rogue River City Council meeting on Thursday, April 23. He said that the particular lift station differs from[Read More…]
Chiefs At Two Meets Last Week
Track and field athletes can count down, when they get to a certain point in the season, to the number of meets before the important ones on the schedule, the district and state meets. Before last Wed., April 22, the Rogue River Jr. Sr. High track and field team had[Read More…]