Rogue River Junior Senior High School principal Tori Kirkpatrick said contractors wasted no time starting summer-break work on her campus at the Tues, June 16 meeting of the Rogue River School Board. At the meeting held 10 days after Graduation, Saturday on June 6, and five days after the last[Read More…]
Author: Brian Mortensen
B My Lucky Lady Fastest Qualifier For $95K Firecracker
Ten quarterhorses, out of 40 entered through six qualifying races, made it through the late June heat of the Summer Solstice and into what will surely be an even hotter cauldron in the Firecracker Futurity at Grants Pass Downs on Sat., July 4. For a little bigger spike in the[Read More…]
Temporary Evacuation Sites Part Of Fire Season Planning
Jackson County Emergency Manager Delaney Richmond outlined new evacuation tools and emergency planning efforts for the 2026 fire season during the June 10 Jackson County Fire District 1 Board of Directors meeting. Richmond said one of her biggest concerns is the possibility that statewide firefighting resources could be tied up[Read More…]
RRFD Board Members Address The Union Letter
When the International Association of Firefighters Local 3513, the union representing firefighters at Jackson County Fire District 1, Rogue River’s fire department, admonished the district’s board of directors for its behavior at its April 11 meeting, one of the two board members at the center of the union’s letter, responded,[Read More…]
Willis Presented Soaring Eagle Award
A total of 54 eighth-graders walked across the gym floor at James Martin Court to receive their diplomas for promotion to high school at Rogue River Junior Senior High School on Tues., June 9. The soon-to-be-freshmen were the first eighth-grade class at RRJSHS’s new junior high building, completed in time[Read More…]
FD1 Receives Four Bids For Solar Project
Jackson County Fire District 1 Chief Mike Hammond said that by Friday, June 5, the Request for Proposal (RFP) deadline, he had received four proposals for a contractor to install the 180 pole-mounted solar panels on district fire station land at the District 1 Board of Directors’ June 10 meeting.[Read More…]
Rooster Crow Grand Marshals: Woodville Museum Board
After nearly 80 years of the National Rooster Crowing Championship, hosted by the Rogue River Kiwanis in its summer brightness, memories are made, and the keeper of memories in a town is its museum, its museum curated and maintained by locals, members of families who built the area, who went[Read More…]