Rogue River Police Chief Dave Rash said he had recently been in talks with citizens who were concerned about the intervention of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the city, at the Rogue River City Council Workshop on Thurs., Feb. 19. “I sat down with them, and we had a[Read More…]
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Headlines & Highlights For February 25, 2026
FEB. 26, 1981 Facial Treatment-A suspicious-looking character strolled right inside the Gold Hill Western Bank on Feb. 23rd, around 2:30 p.m., 5’11”, in his late 20s, armed and masked. The highwayman escaped with the Big Green $. (Wearing, of course, his nylon stocking mask.) Jackson County Sheriffs arrived swiftly but[Read More…]
Budget ‘Questions’ To Be Asked
The budgeting process for the Rogue River School District is usually straightforward each year. Business manager Don Sweeney and his staff at the District Administration Office create the budget, based on district revenues and state school funding, with an eye towards statewide and local trends, with Sweeney explaining the budget[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…]
Brooks Is A Hit At Jackson County Jail
When the Rogue River City Council toured the Jackson County Jail on Feb. 5, the group had the opportunity to meet Brooks, the Jail’s drug dog for two years, being led by Dep. Jenna Evertt. Brooks replaced Koda, the chocolate lab who joined the Rogue River Police Department in 2015,[Read More…]
RR Varsity Beats Faculty In Big Game
Rogue River Jr. Sr. High School was waiting to have a basketball night like Fri., Feb. 20, a night where lots of students and their parents were in the gym, sitting on the edge of their seats, with cheer squads from both sides fervently rooting on their teams, where students[Read More…]
RR City Council Tour Jackson County Jail
The Jackson County Jail houses 285 men and women, known as Adults in Custody (or AICs), the preferred term for what people usually refer to as “inmates,” in a facility that was built in 1981, that was designed to hold 176 people, back when Jackson County had just 134,000, when[Read More…]
Hash Wins In Second Round
Marlia Hash of Rogue River has a hold on Hadley Humphrey from Lincoln Savage at the SOMSAC middle school wrestling meet at James Martin Court on Tues., Feb. 10. Hash started out behind, but came back in the second round to win. Hash and the Junior Chieftains are competing in[Read More…]
Blank Has 10 For Junior Chief Girls
Lilly Blank scored 10 points, including all six of her team’s points in the second period, in the Rogue River Jr. Sr. High middle school-level girls’ basketball team’s 44-18 loss to Lincoln Savage at the Rogue River Elementary School-West Gym on Wed., Feb. 11. The game was the Junior Chieftains’[Read More…]
Alden Hired As New Chieftains Track Coach
Last year, around this time, Rogue River Junior Senior High Athletic Director Kyle Garrison had to scramble to find someone to coach the Chieftains’ track and field team through its season with just a couple of weeks before the start of the season. He hired Doug Lee to serve as[Read More…]