If Rogue River Jr. Sr. High football is to go where it wants to go, that is, into the Class 2A state football playoffs, it will face deep teams with lots of big personnel it can slot in and out throughout the game. A good local equivalent was a 3A[Read More…]
Sports
Jamboree A Success
It’s too bad, in some cases, football jamborees don’t count as games. Structured to play several teams of similar size and skill level, they’re a pre-season exhibition for both players and coaches, but sometimes they’re played as competitively as midseason games, in conditions even more challenging than game conditions. The[Read More…]
Hunting’s Future Depends On Broad Public Support
Ben Mulligan, chairman of the Council to Advance Hunting and the Shooting Sports, recently produced a joint statement from conservation, hunting and shooting sports leaders aimed at educating the public. In it, he said the future of hunting, trapping and recreational shooting depends on more than participation alone, noting that[Read More…]
Young Cancer Survivors Take Special Ride
For a group of children and families affected by pediatric cancer, Cycle Oregon’s stop in Grants Pass became about much more than bicycles and miles. Several of Candlelighters For Children With Cancer’s 2026 Honored Children joined cyclists and their families at the Cycle Oregon base camp in Southern Oregon for[Read More…]
Chieftain Volleyball Is Back
Over the last two seasons, Rogue River Jr. Sr. High’s volleyball team started its season against New Hope Christian School in Grants Pass last year at James Martin Court in 2024, and each time, the Chieftains lost to the Warriors in three sets. The Chieftains were on the verge of[Read More…]
Chieftain Soccer Girls Play At Showcase
Rogue River Jr. Sr. High’s girls’ soccer team is an anomaly among teams from programs of its size around the state. As it was last year, when it had 26 players on its roster, it has 28 in practice this year, including 11 new players. For perspective, that’s six more[Read More…]
Cycle Oregon Rolls Through The Valley
Hundreds of bicyclists from around Oregon and across the country have taken to the roads of Southern Oregon as the 2026 Cycle Oregon Rally brings riders through Grants Pass, Rogue River, Gold Hill, Jacksonville, Ashland and the surrounding Rogue and Applegate valleys. The event got underway Friday, Aug. 28, with[Read More…]
Coaching Change In RR Boys’ Basketball
Rogue River Junior Senior High will have a new boys’ basketball coach this fall, and, in a development almost as surprising, it will keep its girls’ basketball coach from its partial season a year ago. RRJSHS Athletic Coordinator Kyle Garrison confirmed that Max Javernick, who served as boys’ basketball coach[Read More…]
Oregon Would Be Impacted By Rescinded Roadless Rule
Oregon would be among the 10 most-impacted states if a U.S. Forest Service proposal to rescind in its entirety the national 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule, a one-size-fits-all restriction that has frustrated land managers and served as a barrier to wildfire risk reduction work across large swaths of America’s national[Read More…]
Check Out Birdcast As Migration Heats Up
Millions of birds are already taking flight from Canada and winging their way south. The action will heat up in Oregon over the next month or two. Studies have shown that Northern American bird populations have dropped by nearly 30 percent, or about three billion birds, since 1970, and that[Read More…]