Derek Nelson has been waiting for this season. In his fifth season as RRJSHS’s baseball coach, Nelson has been blessed with an experienced, even senior-led, team that he says will throw strikes, make plays on defense, and swing the bats better. “It looks like they got a different motor. A[Read More…]
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Headlines & Highlights For March 18, 2026
MAR. 21, 1981 Sometimes it seems you can’t win. In the last decade, when fuel and electrical heating costs soared, people in the Rogue Valley discovered they could drastically reduce their home heating costs by installing wood stoves. With wood in the valley plentiful, many heating problems seemed solved. Ah,[Read More…]
Chief Softball To Make Splash In Class 3A League
The Rogue River Softball team will have a nice mix of experience and new athleticism, and the team hopes it will make a splash in the school’s last year, for now, in Class 3A. The Chieftains, in 2004 Rogue River High alum Jill Westlake’s eighth season, return players in several[Read More…]
Central Point Kindergarten Launches
If you live within the Central Point School District and have a child who will be 5 years old by September 1, you are invited to the Kindergarten launch at each of the district’s five elementary and primary schools this next month. Kindergarten Launch is a chance to learn about[Read More…]
Queens Gold Meeting Set For March 19 In Medford
A meeting regarding the Queens Gold Forest Management Project, the nearly 4,000-acre area north of Rogue River and Gold Hill that includes land that surrounds Wimer and is administered by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM), has been scheduled for tomorrow, Thurs., March 19. The meeting is at the[Read More…]
Chieftains Looking To Gain Experience
Rogue River Golf Coach Rob Isom, who had all of one day, after returning from the state wrestling tournament, to convert from thinking about the mat to thinking about the links, his third sport as its head coach through the school year beginning this year, said last year was a[Read More…]
Rogue River Kiwanis Club Announces Annual Easter Egg Hunt
The Rogue River Kiwanis Club is pleased to announce its annual Easter Egg Hunt, to be held on Saturday, April 4, at Beck Field, located at the corner of West Main Street and Berglund Street in Rogue River, near the elementary school. This long-standing community tradition will begin promptly at[Read More…]
Spring Whale Watch Week Returns
Oregon State Parks will host Spring Whale Watch Week along the Oregon Coast Saturday, March 21 through Sunday, March 29. Trained Oregon State Park volunteers and park rangers will be stationed at 15 sites along the Oregon Coast to help visitors spot whales and their calves and answer questions from[Read More…]
Commission Meets In Medford Friday
Oregon’s Fish and Wildlife Commission is on the road again, this time meeting in Medford this week for a field tour Thursday and its regular monthly meeting Friday at the Roxy Ann Grange. Thursday’s tour begins at 8 a.m. at the Hampton Inn. Members of the public may join, but[Read More…]
Task Force Serves Child Sexual Abuse Material Search Warrant
Courtesy of Jackson Co. Sheriff’s Office The Southern Oregon Child Exploitation Team (SOCET) along with the Oregon Department of Justice’s (ODOJ) Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force served a search warrant early this morning in Talent. Investigators served the search warrant after discovering Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) images[Read More…]