After missing a year, Ride the Rogue returns this fall. Organizers of the event, the annual fund-raiser for the Rogue River Greenway Foundation that started in 2006, announced that the cycling event is Sat., Sept. 26 Registration opening on April 1. Ride the Rogue missed 2025, a decision organizers made[Read More…]
Sports
Scott Repeats As SOC Second-Team Pick
For the second year in a row, Mason Scott was the focal point of the Rogue River boys’ basketball team. A junior, he repeats as a 3A all-Southern Oregon Conference second-team selection. Just as his teammate Jake Stockman was last year, Scott, a quick defender up top, named to the[Read More…]
Number Of Women Hunters Growing
The Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation said it’s celebrating the strength, skill and tradition women bring to hunting, and the generations they’re inspiring along the way. Women are the fastest-growing demographic segment of the hunting and recreational shooting population in the U.S. Millions of them hunt or participate in a recreational shooting[Read More…]
Coach Said He Enjoyed The Interim Girls’ Season
Though he stated that, when he interviewed to coach the Rogue River Jr. Sr. High girls’ basketball team through its shortened season in December, it was purely on an “interim” basis, Brian Pannell said he did “enjoy” working with this year’s team. “They did a lot despite what the scoreboards[Read More…]
Stockman Sixth, Others Close To Placing At State
So close. The five-person contingent from Rogue River Jr. Sr. High’s wrestling program was all so close in several aspects at the OSAA State Wrestling Championships in Portland over the weekend, on Thurs, Feb. 27, and Fri., Feb. 28. The oldest wrestler in the group of two girls in the[Read More…]
Oregon To Get $30 Million For Fish, Wildlife
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has announced more than $1.2 billion in Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration apportionments to support states, commonwealths and territories in their efforts to fund conservation and outdoor opportunities. Oregon slated to get about $30 million in federal money this year for fish and wildlife restoration, research[Read More…]
Stockman Wins District Title
This season may become the season Kaylee Stockman has been waiting for since she started wrestling for Rogue River Jr. Sr. High’s team as a freshman. The junior started the season undefeated through her first seven matches, winning titles at 190 and 235 in her first two tournaments. She was[Read More…]
Chieftain Boys’, Girls’ End Season
The Rogue River boys’ and girls’ basketball teams saw the ends of their season at St. Mary’s in Medford on Wednesday, Feb. 18. The Chieftain boys lost to the Crusaders 67-33, and St. Mary’s won the girls’ game 45-9. A year ago, to the day, the boys’ team won at[Read More…]
MS Wrestlers Place At District Meet
The Rogue River Jr. Sr. High middle school-level wrestling team had a particularly great day for a small-school team. Of its seven competitors, including six boys and one girl, four eighth-graders, two in seventh grade, and one in sixth grade, five placed in their weight classes. The best results for[Read More…]
RR MS Girls’ Team Ends With Successes
The Rogue River Jr. Sr. High middle school-level girls’ basketball team finished the year with a couple of successes. Even if those successes weren’t actual wins, what they were were wins in the “small steps” category. The team closed its 10-game season with a 34-11 loss to Lorna Byrne on[Read More…]