Playing at Beck Field for the first time in any recent memory, the Rogue River Jr. Sr. High School Powderpuff Football Game didn’t have to resort to spontaneous rule changes that allowed “one more play” to allow for a big finish, in last year’s case, a long touchdown run by[Read More…]
Author: Brian Mortensen
Chiefs Are Working On Putting In The Late Season
Players on the Rogue River Jr.-Sr. golf team will spend their last two weeks fine-tuning their games in time for their district meets. The Chieftain girls’ team played a practice round at Running Y Golf and Country Club in Klamath Falls, where the Class 4A/3A/2A/1A District 5 tournament will be[Read More…]
Chiefs Stay In Game Against No. 2 Challengers
Dustin Morton did everything he could to keep his Rogue River Jr. Sr. High baseball team competitive against one of the best Class 3A teams in the state on its home field, in the rain. The senior threw a complete game, 107 pitches over the five innings in the rain-shortened[Read More…]
RR Softball, Just Waiting For A Game
It’s hard enough trying to schedule games when you have a 16-day gap built into the time you’re usually playing a league schedule. Throw in a little rainstorm on the day you scheduled a game to fill in, and you begin to wonder if you’ll play again. Barring an extended[Read More…]
Gov’s ‘Recovery’ Order May Cause Snow Day Issues
Superintendent Patrick Lee commented on an Executive Order from Gov. Tina Kotek to achieve the stated goal of protecting and restoring student instructional time statewide at the Tues., April 21 meeting of the Rogue River School Board. “This was in response to a large number of states across the state[Read More…]
Special Programs Keeps Students Fed
The Rogue River School District has, for years, found a way to, behind the scenes, help students stay in school and keep coming back. Quay Goff, the secretary for the district’s Special Programs staff and head of the district’s “Backpack program,” addressed what she and others have done to help[Read More…]
Chief Emphasizes ‘Staying Within Means’
Before the nine members of the Evans Valley Fire District Budget Committee, including the five members of the district’s board of directors and four lay members, with one absent, Fire Chief Tom Davidson pointed the committee to the “big pieces of paper”. On those 11×18-inch sheets, the district’s 10-year outlook[Read More…]
Remnant Of Fallen Cedar Replanted On Arbor Day
On an Arbor Day with weather that should be captured for all future Arbor Days, on Fri., April 24, members of the Rogue River City Council and city staff, members of the city’s Tree City USA, and Megan Bless’s fourth-grade class from Rogue River Elementary School, celebrated the beautiful weather[Read More…]
Rogue River Sewer Lift Was Struck By Lightning
Rogue River Public Works Director Michael Bollweg said his department’s most recent “challenge” was a sewer lift station struck by lightning on the south side of the Rogue River during a storm two weeks ago, at the Thursday, April 16, city council workshop. The lift station is located at Coyote[Read More…]
Chiefs Make Long Trek For Brush Truck
Evans Valley Fire District Chief Tom Davidson said he has applied for three different grants simultaneously to purchase a new skid unit for the replacement brush truck the district has just acquired at the district’s Thursday, April 9 meeting. The replacement brush truck is one that the department bought, located[Read More…]