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…]
Author: Brian Mortensen
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…]
Grad Rate Highest, First Time In ‘Decades’
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…]
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…]