An incident during an unexpected and quickly developing snowstorm on Fri., March 1, caused Evans Valley Fire Chief Tom Davidson to consider how volunteer fire personnel who drive the district’s expensive fire apparatus are trained and what the cost in terms of potential volunteers might be in the future at[Read More…]
Author: Brian Mortensen
Climbers Compete, Visit Palmerton With Care
Mike Oxendine, an arborist who lives in Talent, was on hand at the Thurs., March 22 Rogue River City Council Workshop to answer questions about a tree-climbing contest within the Palmerton Park Arboretum next week. The contest is the Pacific Northwest Chapter of the International Society of Arboriculture (PNW-ISA) Southern[Read More…]
Golf Teams Hoping To Reach State
Most of the Rogue River boys’ and girls’ golf teams are back this year, and the Chieftain teams are coming off years when they were both close enough to taste a trip to the state tournament in each case. It might be time for the teams or their higher-seeded individuals[Read More…]
Smith Returns To Pace Chieftains’ Track And Field Team
Last year, Rogue River saw one of its more athletic track and field classes participate at the Class 3A District 5 meet. Several athletes in a strong senior class had chances to qualify for state, but in the end, the Chieftains sent two of them, Sam Haag in the 200[Read More…]
New Faces But Same Attitude With Chieftain Softball
There will be quite a few new faces at Thomas Artoff Field with the Rogue River Jr. Sr. High Softball team. This year’s Chieftains team has no seniors for the first time in a year. It has several experienced players, but it has no seniors. On top of that, the[Read More…]
Chieftains More Competitive This Year
Derek Nelson would gladly accept a team of guys who could play the game as well as he could when he was an all-league selection with the Chieftains before he graduated in 2019. He hopes to have a team full of guys who played as hard as he did in[Read More…]
Snow/Artoff Combo Third At Season-Starter
At their opening event of the season, ten players, five male and five female, were available to play at Dutcher Creek Golf Course for its Dutcher Freeze tournament on Tues., March 12. Rogue River’s top male combo of senior Gavin Snow and junior Johnny Artoff was third with the players’[Read More…]
Two Big Innings Pour It On Softball Opener
Rogue River Jr. Sr. High scored seven runs in the first inning, sending 12 players to the plate, then added 14 runs as 17 came to the plate in the Chieftain softball team’s 23-4 season-opening victory at 2A Bonanza on Thurs., March 14. Junior Amanda LeDoux, playing left field, had[Read More…]
Smith Returns, Three Top-Five Places At GP
When Rogue River entered the events at the ice-breaker Rogue Classic Invite track and field meet, a familiar figure showed her stuff, and it was if Suzy Smith had never left. Smith, who qualified for state track and field meets in three different events during her freshman and sophomore seasons,[Read More…]
Chieftains Fall In Season-Opener At Bonanza
Rogue River took an early lead in its season-opening game at Bonanza, but the host Antlers came back with rallies in each of the first three innings and were able to hold off the Chieftains 12-9 on Thurs., March 14. The Chieftains’ originally scheduled home opener was Tues., March 12[Read More…]