If Ballot Measure #15-203, the replacement bond for the Rogue River School District, does not pass; it will not be because of a lack of effort in promoting the information and getting out the vote. By the time this edition comes out, there will be less than a week before[Read More…]
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School Board Candidates Run Unopposed
Jay Chick and Heather Friend were appointed to fill open positions created last year through interview processes conducted five months apart. Both decided to run for their positions in the May 16 election next week. Both are running unopposed. Chick was appointed in February 2022 to succeed the board’s longest-serving[Read More…]
Chiefs Sweep In Pole Vault, Second In Boys’ 4×100
The Rogue River Jr. Sr. High track and field team has one more weekend before it will look to qualify as many athletes as it can at the Class 3A District 5 Championship at St. Mary’s High in Medford on Fri.-Sat., May 19-20. The Chieftains finished their regular meet schedule,[Read More…]
Chiefs In High-Scoring Pair At Douglas; End At Home This Week
The Rogue River Jr. Sr. High softball team scored more runs in their doubleheader at Douglas than any other this spring, reaching a total surpassed only by last year’s 33 against Chiloquin, but the Chieftains allowed 43 over the two games in their last road trip of the season. The[Read More…]
Chieftain Girls’ Sixth At District Meet; Yauch Seventh
The Rogue River Jr. Sr. High girls’ golf team, with only three experienced players, one senior and two freshmen, found itself a lot closer than it might have expected to fare at the Class 4A/3A/2A/1A District 3 championships Wed.-Thurs., May 3-4. The Chieftains were in fifth place, 22 strokes behind[Read More…]
Douglas Puts On Hitting Display In Chiefs’ Final Home Pair
It’s a couple months from July 4, but there were fireworks and bombs bursting in air at Mike Umscheid Field in the Rogue River Jr. Sr. High School baseball team’s final home games on Sat., May 6. Douglas, a team that figures to make the Class 3A state playoffs, as[Read More…]
Scoreboard Dedicated To Lifelong Baseball Fan Nolan
Moving to the San Francisco Bay area in the early to mid-1950s, the time was ripe for Dusty Nolan to become a baseball fan. When the New York Giants moved out west to play in Seals Stadium for Bill Rigney in 1958, the Giants had winning seasons their first 14[Read More…]
Split vs. Cascade Christian Makes Playoff Hunt Tougher
The Rogue River Jr. Sr. High Softball team had a huge comeback win in the first game of the Chieftains’ doubleheader against Cascade Christian that could set them up for the final couple weeks of the season as they hunt for a Class 3A state playoff berth. But then seven[Read More…]
Personal Bests Help Chiefs To Third
The Rogue River Jr. Sr. High track and field athletes appear to be right where you’d want to be with weeks before your most important competitions – peaking with your best marks in each of your events. The Chieftain athletes have been progressing, particularly through their last two meets, big[Read More…]
Challengers Not Kind To Chiefs Again
One horrible circumstance of being brought back to Class 3A beginning this year for Rogue River is that the Chieftain teams would have to take their lumps against Cascade Christian. Rogue River didn’t have to face the football Challengers, who were a perfect 13-0 in winning the 3A state title,[Read More…]
