Landowners can get free wildlife forage seed next Thursday thanks to generous donations from the Rogue Valley, Curry, Josephine, and State-level Chapters of the Oregon Hunters Association, matched with federal funds granted to the Department of Fish and Wildlife through the Pittman-Robertson Act’s Wildlife Restoration Program. Landowners are eligible for[Read More…]
Sports
Chieftains Fall To Glide, 46-21
Ready for a chance to play a team closer to its size than its Week One opponent, 3A Brookings-Harbor, the Rogue River Jr. Sr. High football team didn’t get a reprieve against local rival, sometimes in league, sometimes not, Glide on the road on Fri., Sept. 11 in a 46-21[Read More…]
Junior Chieftains Win First, At Eagle Point
Zane Wardle scored a pair of touchdowns and ran for 120 yards, as the Rogue River Jr. Sr. High Junior High-level football team won at Talent 26-12 in its first game of the season on Wed., Sept. 9. Dane Alvarez Jr. is the Junior Chieftains coach this fall, with Derek[Read More…]
Chiefs Win After Taking Mercy Rule Loss
It has been a rough patch for Rogue River boys’ soccer over the last eight to 10 years. Never mind having Cascade Christian and St. Mary’s to deal with all those years. There were seasons after the Decker and Poston brothers graduated, and then it became hard to field teams,[Read More…]
Downs Honors Trainer Irwin
Three jockeys rose to the top of the jockeys standings through the first of five weekends of the Grants Pass Downs Fall season, which started on Sun., Sept. 13, and continued through Mon., Sept 14. Veteran jockey Jake Nunnally won the fourth and fifth races on opening day, Sept. 13,[Read More…]
Chiefs Beat Knights
Fans at the opening match for Rogue River Jr. Sr. High’s boys’ soccer team, when it had a 3-1 lead in the first half against North Valley on Thursday, Sept. 3, couldn’t be blamed if they were thinking of a similar game at Beck Field last season in which the[Read More…]
Chiefs Get Good Start
In its first match since its five-set, come-from-behind win at New Hope Christian, the Rogue River Jr. Sr. High volleyball team had a competitive start at Glendale playing to a 28-26 first-set loss, but the host Pirates won the match 3-0, 28-26, 25-17. 25-15. After a match at 1A Yoncalla,[Read More…]
Chieftain PRIDE To Enhance School
Rogue River Junior/Senior High principal Tori Kirkpatrick announced an initiative to promote the Pride and Image goal, one of the overall goals of the Rogue River School District at the Junior/Senior High School. She said Chieftain PRIDE emerged from a meeting between staff and students last spring about what “pride”[Read More…]
Chieftain Cheer Has Big Dreams
Rogue River Jr. Sr. High School’s most successful, maybe its most exciting team, on a statewide level, the last two years has been its Cheerleading team. In its competitive season, the Chieftains team improved on its 12th-place finish in 2025 to fourth place at state at the competition held on[Read More…]
Check Out The Big Game Forecast Online
An exceptionally mild and warm 2025-‘26 winter across much of Oregon has provided good overwinter survival for Oregon’s deer and elk herds. Drought-impacted areas got a short reprieve in spring before dry conditions returned in late summer. Recent rains with cooler temperatures offer a temporary fix as fall moves into[Read More…]