The Rogue River Jr. Sr. High girls’ basketball team is going to be challenged most nights due to its thinness, with just 10 players and youth, having to start a pair of freshmen and a sophomore with its two upperclassman players. The Chieftains (0-7) reached a season-high point total in[Read More…]
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Board Discusses State Measures And Big Tests
Rogue River Schools Superintendent Patrick Lee announced at the Rogue River School Board meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 17, that vertical construction has begun at the junior high wing at Rogue River Junior Senior High School, one of the projects funded with funding won in the district’s 2023 bond election. In[Read More…]
Chieftains Look To Start At ‘0-0’ After Home Loss
It’s been a tough week for Rogue River Jr. Sr. High boys’ basketball. Recharged after their 0-3 start with the level of play they experienced in a pair of close losses heading into and at their tournament last weekend, they seem to have leveled off again. They lost 43-35 at[Read More…]
RR Care Program Serves JSHS Students
For years, a local business owner, Rachel Reber, had this nagging thought. “With the economy, I had been learning, from Young Life, that high school students are literally going hungry, and they can’t put food on the table,” she said. “For years, I’d been wanting to (help) students, but I[Read More…]
Chiefs Searching For First Win
Following their first home action of the season, the Rogue River Jr. Sr. boys’ basketball team, at the close of their own second annual tournament at James Martin Court, the Chieftains were, for the second year in a row, the team left without a win, and they were 0-6, and[Read More…]
Chief Girls Play First Home Game
Sophomore Reagan Alden had a varsity career-high nine points, and the Chieftains had five players score, but the Chieftains were witness to the work of Camas Valley sophomore Liberty Sexton, who hit six 3-pointers on the way to a 30-point night in the host Hornets’ 61-18 win on Tues., Dec.[Read More…]
Three In Finals For Wrestlers At Scio
The Rogue River Jr. High boys’ wrestling team is using its early season meets in December to give its large group of young wrestlers a chance to get acclimated to the sport at the high school level. With good returns at Del Norte High in California on its first weekend,[Read More…]
Middle School Teams Win Final Games
Both the Rogue River Jr. Sr. High middle-school-level boys’ basketball teams finished a positive note in Junior Chieftains’ final games of the season, with both the varsity and junior varsity teams in their final games of the season against White Mountain on Wed., Dec. 11. The Junior Chieftain varsity, behind[Read More…]
RRES Winter Performance
“Last Christmas” may well be an earworm when listening to the radio this season. However, last winter break, the Rogue River Elementary School (RRES) winter musical program set an attendance record not achieved in over twenty years, so much so that the fire marshal nearly had to shut it down. [Read More…]
Wrestlers Hope To Bring Back A Banner
The Rogue River Jr. Sr. High boys’ wrestling program is looking to bounce back from a year in which the Chieftains were down in numbers. The Chieftains did everything they could with those smaller numbers last year, getting four wrestlers qualified for the state meet, with a pair of Class[Read More…]