Just days before the Rogue River School District’s June meeting, district personnel received word that it would receive funding for a summer school program for this season and Summer 2026. “When that happened (receiving word of the funding), we had a lot of decisions to make and reached out to[Read More…]
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RCC Offers Free Fast-Track Program In Early Childhood Education
Rogue Community College is now enrolling students for a fast-track Early Childhood Education (ECE) program that will be offered this fall. Designed to quickly prepare individuals for work with infants, toddlers and preschoolers, the program is funded by a grant that will cover tuition and books for 30 students. A[Read More…]
School District Justifies Keeping Artwork
Rogue River Schools Superintendent Patrick Lee addressed recent controversy over a piece of art created for and shown at the Rogue River Junior-Senior High School Student Art Show in May and explained his decision to allow the piece to remain on display. “When the nature of the artwork was brought[Read More…]
Chieftain Softball Has Four All-League Picks
With the splitting of the Far West League from a 10-team league into two leagues, one of six teams, the other four in the new Southern Oregon League, it left Rogue River in the more boiled-down Southern Oregon Conference, a league that was good enough to put three teams in[Read More…]
Kewley First-Team Baseball For Chiefs
Kyler Kewley received special mention from Rogue River Jr. Sr. High baseball coach Derek Nelson through this season because Kewley was the one senior on his team who had been part of his Chieftain teams each of his four seasons as coach. Kewley repaid that trust by playing a solid,[Read More…]
Wagerle Named Soaring Eagle Winner
Highly achieving students are identified before they ever reach high school. Rogue River Jr. Sr. High School honors its highest achieving students entering high school with the award that pays homage to the man often seen as one of the patriarchs of the local area, perhaps the patriarch of the[Read More…]
Felkins Scholarship Night
Through the Redwood Foundation, the Cecil W. Felkins Legacy Scholarship gave a total of $3,500 in six scholarships to students at Rogue River Jr. Sr. High School and South Valley Academy this past week. Friends of the late South Valley Academy teacher and principal can play a part in replenishing[Read More…]
Stringham And LeDoux Are On Their Way To What’s Next
It is said that the years that include high school and the years after, whether they are spent in college, the military, or the workforce, help shape what a person wants to be and hopes to become. In today’s educational world, students can immediately hone in on what interests them[Read More…]
Flexibility Towards Goals To Graduation
Since its opening in the Rogue River School District for the 2018-19 school year, South Valley Academy’s aim has been, at its simplest form, meeting students where they are. It can include meeting them at their career goals, current work schedule requirements, credit needs, and even the needs of the[Read More…]
Felkins Memory Celebrated At SVA Graduation
Everyone assembled at South Valley Academy’s Class of 2025 graduation ceremony could celebrate the continued growth of the school, which is ending its seventh year. The school and its community of parents and friends expanded to the point that they outgrew the Live Oak Grange and held their commencement exercises[Read More…]