Rogue River Junior Senior High School principal Tori Kirkpatrick challenged the Rogue River School Board to consider reinstating essential skills demonstrations suspended in favor of testing through the Oregon State Assessment System (OSAS) each year at the board’s Tuesday, November 19 meeting. Many indicators on which the school is judged[Read More…]
Author: Brian Mortensen
LeDoux, Perryman Each HM In Volleyball League
Rogue River Sr. Jr. High players Amanda LeDoux, a senior, and junior Finnley Perryman were named among the All-Class 3A District 7 Honorable Mention volleyball selections when all-district teams were named last week. St. Marys’ junior Ada Bernard was named the district’s top player, and North Valley junior Natalie Miller[Read More…]
Smiths, Scott All-District Second-Teamers
Six players from Rogue River Jr. Sr. High’s football program received All-Class 2A District 5 honors last week. Senior Byron Smith was one of three all-district second-team performers, selected as second-team punter and named Honorable Mention tight end. Smith’s sophomore brother Wyatt Smith, a tackle, was a second-team performer on[Read More…]
Gold Hill Waiting For Project Grant Funding
The City of Gold Hill is still waiting for word on the fate of two big projects for which it applied for funding earlier this year. The city had applied for a $2.5 million Community Development Block Grant, which, should it receive the funding, will be able to pay for[Read More…]
Snow’s Defense Long Kicks Make Him First Teamer
Sophomore Gavin Snow’s booming kicks from a distance put pressure on District 5 goalkeepers and even found their way into the back of the net a team-leading four times, along with his athleticism in back as the Chieftains’ last line of defense made him a first-team all-District five selection last[Read More…]
Board Adopts EVFD Strategic Plan
Evans Valley Fire Chief Tom Davidson presented, in draft form, the district’s Strategic Plan, covering 2025-27, at the district’s Board of Directors meeting on Thurs., Nov. 14. The new plan followed a couple of committee meetings that included a group of community members, district volunteer firefighters, and RVFD board members[Read More…]
Brown, Fithian All-District Four Soccer Selections
Most of the 2024 Rogue River Jr. Sr. High girls’ soccer team were freshmen, with nine ninth graders on a team that went 3-10-1 (3-8-1 in District 4), but the framework of the Chieftains team is its seven sophomores. Its only player who has served as captain through the first[Read More…]
Alden Leads Way In Jr. Chieftains’ First Win
Waylon Alden, an eighth grader, scored six of his game-high 13 points in the fourth period as the Rogue River Jr. Sr. High middle school varsity team won for the first time this season, a 34-27 win against Fleming on Wed., Nov. 13, at the Rogue River Elementary School West[Read More…]
EVFD Board To Look Around For Evaluation Tools
Members of the Evans Valley Fire District Board of Directors were asked to submit their evaluations of Chief Tom Davidson by the board’s Dec. 12 meeting. Board chair Larry Tuttle would usually compile the results of the five-person board’s evaluations for a board-wide statement at its January meeting. Still, this[Read More…]
District Out-Of-Pocket $25,000 For Radios
Evans Valley Fire Chief Tom Davidson said he learned, at a recent meeting at Emergency Communications of Southern Oregon, the regional dispatch for all responding agencies, that the district would be subject to an out-of-pocket expense of between $25,000 and $30,000 next fiscal year for its share of ECSO’s radio[Read More…]