When anglers talk fishing, they often focus on how many were caught, or how big the largest one was. Few consider what it takes to sustain a healthy aquatic habitat, and the importance of that to the very fish they’re after. Behind the scenes, many great fisheries are supported by[Read More…]
Sports
Chief Girls Honor Seniors, Blast Glide 8-0
Three of the Chieftains’ five seniors scored in the team’s final regular-season home match, the Senior Night win against Glide on Thursday, Oct. 8. Carmen Brown, the team’s leading scorer, who scored the team’s first goal in the first match in the rejuvenated girls’ soccer program’s first season in 2023,[Read More…]
Boys’ Soccer Set For Big Final Matches
The Rogue River Jr. Sr. High boys’ soccer team was set to take on the biggest hurdle in its quest to reach the state playoffs in the first year of the new Class 2A/1A boys’ soccer class, against 8-1 and No. 9 Pacific in Port Orford on Tuesday, Oct. 13.[Read More…]
Chiefs Knock Down Defending Champs
In this season of long-sought-out football respectability for the Rogue River Jr. High program, another kryptonite program fell at their feet on their home turf. This time, it was Lost River, the Class 2A (and sometimes 1A) powerhouse that has won three state championships in the last four years and[Read More…]
Volleyball Team Back For Final Match
The Rogue River Jr. Sr. High volleyball team is playing its last two road games in the school’s first campaign, of any sport, in the Chieftain teams’ new Class 2A home, the East Cascades Conference, this week. The Chieftains (5-10) were getting a firsthand look at a league in which[Read More…]
Hunters Asked To Help With CWD Sampling
Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) monitoring across Oregon is ramping up, with new check stations in place this week. CWD, a fatal disease to deer, elk, and moose, has already been detected in the neighboring states of Idaho, Washington, and California. More than 40,000 big game animals have been sampled over[Read More…]
Junior Chieftains Eight-Game Streak Ends
The first rule about winning streaks is that they’re awesome. The second one is that they end. The Rogue River Jr. Sr. High junior high football team had won its first three games this season in following its undefeated 5-0 season last year, but faced a Lorna Byrne team that[Read More…]
Chief Boys Win, Take Tough Losses
The Rogue River Jr. Sr. High boys’ soccer team will have to do a lot of their work toward making the state playoffs, with four of their final five matches away from Beck Field. The Chieftains (4-4) fell to 2-2 in Class 2A-1A District 3 with a pair of losses[Read More…]
Chief Girls Fight, But Fall To Bruins
The Rogue River Jr. Sr. High girls’ soccer team played two matches over a four-day period that would likely indicate where they might place in their league, Class 3A/2A/1A District 3. The Chieftains (6-4, 5-2) passed the first step with a 2-1 win on the hot artificial turf at Sutherlin[Read More…]
Crusaders Spoil Chiefs’ Homecoming
The Rogue River Jr. Sr. High football team’s game on Friday, Oct. 2, seemed to be a complete reversal of the Chieftains’ 2025 game against St. Mary’s. While the Chieftains piled up 65 points in a high-scoring but fairly easy win against the Crusaders, on Homecoming Night in 2025, it[Read More…]