Shae Watkins was a cheerleader at Rogue River Jr. Sr. High for four years before she graduated in 2013. She came back to coach the Chieftain cheer team in the 2017-18 school year and started the following year, coaching the team until three weeks before her son was born in[Read More…]
Sports
Looking To Conserve The Future Of Wildlife
Fifty-two of the nation’s top sporting and conservation organizations have joined together to brainstorm and support ideas that focus on solutions to conserve wildlife and their habitats, bolster public access, and protect outdoor traditions. Known as the American Wildlife Conservation Partners, the group of hunter-conservationists, professional wildlife and natural resource[Read More…]
Younger Group Injects New Attitude For Soccer Team
History is still being made with Rogue River boys’ soccer! The Chieftains, in the first boys-only season since 2019 and with new coaches Tom Bigboy and Rob Isom, adjusted to a league season, more or less from scratch, with a collection of two seniors who had played through at least[Read More…]
Chieftains Start SOC Play Thursday
The Rogue River Jr. Sr. High Volleyball team starts its first-ever season in the newly configured Southern Oregon Conference (SOC) this week with a match at Brookings-Harbor on Thurs., Sept. 19. The Chieftains will look for a change of fortune in the league, which appears to be the same as[Read More…]
Change ‘Culture’ Within RR Football
A new Rogue River Jr. Sr. High football program is doing its best to turn around a recent trend of low numbers and apathy that folks at its head hope will lead to not only football wins but also more participation and better academic success, those things that make up[Read More…]
Chieftain Girls Look For Further Growth
The Rogue River girls’ soccer team, in its second year under Clyde Fields since the team was brought back for the first time since 2019, might feel like an all-new team – even if this year’s team has ten players back from last year’s squad. This fall’s team is huge,[Read More…]
Chiefs Take First Loss At Bandon
With just a couple different twists of fortune, the Rogue River Jr. Sr. High football team, in search of its second road victory in as many games to start the new season, could have gone into the locker room at halftime down just a touchdown at Bandon on Fri., September[Read More…]
Three Freshmen Form Bedrock Of Volleyball
This season, as many freshmen as seniors are on the Rogue River Jr. Sr. High varsity volleyball team. The seniors on the team deserve their spots, with two of them having been in the volleyball program since their freshman seasons and the other out for the first time helping the[Read More…]
Samuels Wins Five Races At Downs
Jake Samuels, the leading jockey from the Grants Pass Downs summer season, also made a significant bid to be its top rider during the fall season, the Sept. 15-16 weekend at the Josephine County Fairgrounds. He won four straight races, half the program, on Sun., Sept. 15, two five-and-a-half-furlong races,[Read More…]
Win Hunting Gear From OHA
Oregon Hunters Association (OHA) is partnering with ODFW to encourage hunters to get their deer and elk tested for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) this season. Hunters who submit a CWD test from a harvested deer or elk between Aug. 1, 2024 and April 1, 2025 will automatically be entered to[Read More…]