With the lifting of some fire restrictions in Southern Oregon, some private lands within the Jackson Cooperative Travel Management Area (JACTMA) have reopened to walk-in only. Within the boundaries of the management area, roads designated as Green Dot roads are currently open for travel to public lands. On non-Green Dot[Read More…]
Sports
Chief Girls Able To Shake Off Loss
The Rogue River Jr. Sr. High girls’ soccer team demonstrated that it had moved on from its painful-but-not-crushing loss to St. Mary’s when, two days later, the Chieftains beat Siuslaw, a new team to Class 3A/2A/1A District 3, 2-0 on Thurs., Sept. 24. Sophomore midfielders Vera Brown and Shelby Hutsell[Read More…]
Smaller Ride, Big Greenway Plans
Ride the Rogue, which celebrated its 20th anniversary since its first event in 2006 last weekend, on Sept. 26, has always been the main fundraiser for the effort to expand and maintain the Rogue River Greenway. But with rides of three lengths on backroads through the area, with, of course,[Read More…]
Chieftains Reverse Panther Curse, Stop 36-Year Streak
The previous week, the Rogue River Jr. Sr. High football team settled a year-old score with its win against Hayfork, Calif. Last week, the Chieftains settled a different kind of score, one that might have involved their own fathers and uncles and dozens of RR alums who played in the[Read More…]
Miss Royal Hawk, Best Qualifier
Miss Royal Hawk, a horse that won its trials race for the Firecracker Futurity at Grants Pass Downs but finished seventh in the big July 4 race, with jockey Jaime Lopez, had the top time among the 10 horses that made the Far West Futurity Finals from its qualifying races[Read More…]
Saturday Is ‘Hunt & Fish’ Day
Hunters and anglers make up a small fraction of the general population, but it’s their dollars that keep many state fish and wildlife programs afloat. Saturday is National Hunting and Fishing Day, a day created to celebrate the hunters, anglers, and target shooters that combine to provide millions annually to[Read More…]
RR Boys Win League Opener, 4 Straight ‘Mercy’ Matches
Rogue River boys’ soccer coach Rob Isom said at the start of the season he was looking for games from any bigger school’s junior varsity or even JV2 teams, to give his young Chieftains some match conditions. Through the first couple of weeks of the season, what the Chieftains, no[Read More…]
Chief Girls 2-1 In League
The grind began for the Rogue River Jr. Sr. High girls’ soccer team, a team with great expectations both within and without the program, with the start of the Class 3A/2A/1A District 3 last week, and it began in a way they would have hoped. After their 1-2 start that[Read More…]
Chiefs Pick Up Fifth Win
The Rogue River Jr. Sr. High volleyball team started its first season in the 2A East Cascades Conference on Tues., Sept. 22, at Lost River, but by the time they got on the bus for Klamath County, the Chieftains had already picked up five wins in non-conference play. At 5-5,[Read More…]
Chiefs End Hayfork’s Years-Long Streak
The Rogue River Jr. Sr. High School cheerleaders issued a dire warning to the Hayfork, Calif., football team in the pursuit of its 41st straight win, to add to a streak that includes three sectional championships that started in 2023. The cheerleaders’ paper sign through which the Chieftains run before[Read More…]