When Patrick Lee walked out of the Administration Building of the Rogue River School District on Tuesday, June 23, his final day as superintendent, climbed into his vehicle and headed home, he could finally turn off his cell phone. When he did, it would be the first time in 18[Read More…]
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Lee Bids Farewell, REACH Plans For The Future
In what was the final school board meeting for Superintendent Patrick Lee, Lee used the time for his report to reflect on his seven-year tenure with the district on Tues., June 16. To begin with, he reported that the district had received $14 million in both grant and bond funding,[Read More…]
Improving Numbers And Slime At RRES
Rogue River Elementary School principal Ashtyn James had some data to share with the Rogue River School Board at its first meeting following the end of the school year, during the board’s June 16 meeting. These were the scores in each subject area, the IXL scores her faculty uses to[Read More…]
Grad Rate Highest, First Time In ‘Decades’
Rogue River Junior Senior High School principal Tori Kirkpatrick said contractors wasted no time starting summer-break work on her campus at the Tues, June 16 meeting of the Rogue River School Board. At the meeting held 10 days after Graduation, Saturday on June 6, and five days after the last[Read More…]
RCC Celebrates Graduating Class
Rogue Community College celebrated its largest graduating class since 2018 during its 55th Commencement ceremony held June 13 at the Marjorie Holzgang Concert Bowl on the Redwood Campus. A total of 749 students made up the Class of 2026, marking the college’s highest graduation total in eight years. Approximately 400[Read More…]
Willis Presented Soaring Eagle Award
A total of 54 eighth-graders walked across the gym floor at James Martin Court to receive their diplomas for promotion to high school at Rogue River Junior Senior High School on Tues., June 9. The soon-to-be-freshmen were the first eighth-grade class at RRJSHS’s new junior high building, completed in time[Read More…]
First Team Baseball Picks
Three seniors and a freshman from Rogue River Jr. Sr. High’s baseball team received postseason honors from the 3A Southern Oregon Conference earlier this week. Seniors Dustin Morton and Sean Murray were first-team all-league selections, while Kaiden Richardson was an Honorable Mention utility player. Freshman Rylan Homan was given Honorable[Read More…]
Chiefs Have Three Softball First-Teamers
Rogue River Jr. Sr. High’s softball program, a proud, family-built program spanning three generations of the Artoff family, with a fourth playing for it the last two seasons, has gotten the short end of the stick in the Class 3A Southern Oregon Conference. The Chieftains have gone winless in the[Read More…]
SVA Honors Largest Graduating Class, Resilience
With its largest graduating class and its second-largest group of graduates crossing the stage to receive their diplomas, South Valley Academy’s Class of 2026 was ushered into its future with the familiar sense of celebration as the cheering crowd at the end of a marathon. “Behind every graduate is a[Read More…]
RRJSHS’s Class Of ’26 Leaves An Impact
Rogue River Junior Senior High School’s Class of 2026 was small-ish, at 44 graduates, four more than in 2025, but it had impact. “All of our classes are special, but this is a very special class,” Commencement speaker Brian Pannell said. “There’s joy, but there’s tears. This is a tough[Read More…]