The U.S. Postal Service has opened its 114th year of USPS Operation Santa and is accepting holiday letters from children and families throughout the continental United States, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. Each year, thousands of letters addressed to Santa arrive at the North Pole. Through Operation Santa, registered individuals and[Read More…]
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Chieftains Fall To Glide, 46-21
Ready for a chance to play a team closer to its size than its Week One opponent, 3A Brookings-Harbor, the Rogue River Jr. Sr. High football team didn’t get a reprieve against local rival, sometimes in league, sometimes not, Glide on the road on Fri., Sept. 11 in a 46-21[Read More…]
Contractor Fraud
Home repairs can be expensive, stressful, and difficult to evaluate—especially when a contractor insists that the work must be completed immediately. Dishonest contractors use these pressures to convince homeowners to pay for unnecessary repairs, accept poor-quality work, or hand over money for projects that are never completed. Older adults are[Read More…]
Junior Chieftains Win First, At Eagle Point
Zane Wardle scored a pair of touchdowns and ran for 120 yards, as the Rogue River Jr. Sr. High Junior High-level football team won at Talent 26-12 in its first game of the season on Wed., Sept. 9. Dane Alvarez Jr. is the Junior Chieftains coach this fall, with Derek[Read More…]
Court Order Delays Wild Horse Rescue
The Bureau of Land Management has postponed a planned wild horse rescue operation on Riddle Mountain after a temporary restraining order was issued in connection with ongoing litigation. The operation had been scheduled to begin Sept. 9. According to the BLM, the herd faces severe shortages of food and water[Read More…]
New Machine Gun Range Breaks Ground
The Oregon National Guard and U.S. Navy broke ground Sept. 9 on a new Multi-Purpose Machine Gun Range at the Naval Weapons Systems Training Facility, launching construction on a project more than two decades in the making. The $12 million facility will be Oregon’s first and only Army-standard crew-served weapons[Read More…]
Chiefs Win After Taking Mercy Rule Loss
It has been a rough patch for Rogue River boys’ soccer over the last eight to 10 years. Never mind having Cascade Christian and St. Mary’s to deal with all those years. There were seasons after the Decker and Poston brothers graduated, and then it became hard to field teams,[Read More…]
Fielder Mountain Fire Followed A Straight Line
When Jackson County Fire District 1 Chief Mike Hammond reported on his perspective of the Fielder Mountain Fire Aug. 13-14 to the district’s board of directors on Wed., Sept. 9, he was still amazed. “It’s amazing to me even today that we did not lose any structures out there (on[Read More…]
Ten Rafts High: Record-Breaking Run
A group of Josephine County rafters took river recreation to new heights Friday by successfully navigating the Rogue River aboard a stack of 10 inflatable rafts. The boats were placed one on top of another and carefully secured before the towering structure was launched. Despite the unusual height and balancing[Read More…]
Downs Honors Trainer Irwin
Three jockeys rose to the top of the jockeys standings through the first of five weekends of the Grants Pass Downs Fall season, which started on Sun., Sept. 13, and continued through Mon., Sept 14. Veteran jockey Jake Nunnally won the fourth and fifth races on opening day, Sept. 13,[Read More…]