Readers of a certain age all over North America will remember a really excellent Canadian comedy-variety show called The Red Green Show, which had a 15-year run starting in 1990, starring Steve Smith as gravel-voiced handyman Red Green. Each week, Red would preside over the “Handyman Corner” segment of the[Read More…]
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Active-Duty And Former U.S. Army Soldiers Arrested For Theft
Jian Zhao and Li Tian, active-duty U.S. Army soldiers stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, along with Ruoyu Duan, a former U.S. Army soldier, were arrested following indictments by federal grand juries in the District of Oregon and the Western District of Washington. Tian and Duan were charged in the District[Read More…]
ODOT Road Construction Update
JACKSON COUNTY • OREGON 99 (Rogue Valley Highway), MP 10.2 to 11, Glenwood to Coleman Creek utility work ($12 million) This project will widen Oregon 99 from East Glenwood Road to Coleman Creek Bridge, improving safety, as well as pedestrian and bicycle accessibility. Other improvements include adding streetlights at four[Read More…]
Homicide Suspect Arrested In Rogue River
Rogue River Police Chief Dave Rash told the City Council at its workshop on Thursday, March 6, that Officer Brent Miller was on patrol recently and, in a traffic stop, was able to arrest a suspect on a homicide warrant in California. “(The suspect) was compliant. He didn’t think he[Read More…]
Commercial Kitchen Lease Terminated
From the program’s inception in 2001, RVCOG Food & Friends has leased the commercial kitchen in the Olsrud Family Nutrition Center from ACCESS. Unfortunately, we received a letter on Monday, March 3rd indicating that our lease agreement is terminating effective August 31, 2025. That gives us less than six months[Read More…]
Which Homes Get Yard Debris Picked Up
Rogue River City Administrator Ryan Nolan reported that the city had prepared an audit of properties in the city Southern Oregon Sanitation listed as being within the city limits and those that are not at the Rogue River City Council’s workshop session on Thursday, March 6. He said the audit[Read More…]
RRES Students Show Improvement Within The Year
During the January Rogue River School Board meeting, Superintendent Patrick Lee asked Rogue River Elementary School Principal Ashtyn James to show what she and her school had been doing this year after she presented data showing greater academic achievement than the Oregon Department of Education’s At A Glance data page[Read More…]
Nolan Sits In With Medford, Central Point Lobbyist
With the Oregon Legislature now in session, cities need to be heard, either for representatives to go to Salem themselves or through lobbyists cities can employ. Rogue River City Administrator Ryan Nolan said that he had been invited by Medford’s and Central Point’s city governments to attend their monthly meetings[Read More…]
Board Chooses Head Start At New Early Learning Center
The selection of the provider of early-learning curriculum at the currently under construction at the corner of Oak and Second streets, behind Rogue River Elementary School’s east campus, was reportedly an extremely difficult decision between two local providers, as related during the Feb. 18 meeting of the Rogue River School[Read More…]
Battle Of The Books Tournament
On March 8th, two Rogue River School District teams competed at the Southern Oregon regional Oregon Battle of the Books (OBOB) tournament. OBOB is a statewide reading competition in which students read from a list of books and answer very specific questions. The third through fifth grade Rogue River “Readers”[Read More…]