The arc of the Rogue River Jr. Sr. High softball team’s entire season may have been changed by a single text message sent the weekend before last. The text came to Chieftains softball coach Jill Westlake from her team’s first baseman from last season. That’s Suzy Smith. Smith is a[Read More…]
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New Chief Hopes For ‘Night Out,’ Accreditation
Chief David Rash appeared, for the first time, in uniform in presenting his first report to the Rogue River City Council at its Thurs., March 22 Workshop. The Chief also revealed other plans and goals for his new department over the next year or so. He said he would provide[Read More…]
New JSHS Vice Principal Hired; AD Leaving
The Rogue River School Board approved the hire of current South Umpqua High School graduation coach Emily Figueroa-Wolfe as the new vice principal at Rogue River Junior Senior High School at its Tues., March 19 meeting. Figueroa-Wolfe will work with RRJSHS principal Tori Kirkpatrick, the school’s vice principal, before she[Read More…]
District Considers Extra Training For Engine Drivers
An incident during an unexpected and quickly developing snowstorm on Fri., March 1, caused Evans Valley Fire Chief Tom Davidson to consider how volunteer fire personnel who drive the district’s expensive fire apparatus are trained and what the cost in terms of potential volunteers might be in the future at[Read More…]
Climbers Compete, Visit Palmerton With Care
Mike Oxendine, an arborist who lives in Talent, was on hand at the Thurs., March 22 Rogue River City Council Workshop to answer questions about a tree-climbing contest within the Palmerton Park Arboretum next week. The contest is the Pacific Northwest Chapter of the International Society of Arboriculture (PNW-ISA) Southern[Read More…]
Golf Teams Hoping To Reach State
Most of the Rogue River boys’ and girls’ golf teams are back this year, and the Chieftain teams are coming off years when they were both close enough to taste a trip to the state tournament in each case. It might be time for the teams or their higher-seeded individuals[Read More…]
Smith Returns To Pace Chieftains’ Track And Field Team
Last year, Rogue River saw one of its more athletic track and field classes participate at the Class 3A District 5 meet. Several athletes in a strong senior class had chances to qualify for state, but in the end, the Chieftains sent two of them, Sam Haag in the 200[Read More…]
New Faces But Same Attitude With Chieftain Softball
There will be quite a few new faces at Thomas Artoff Field with the Rogue River Jr. Sr. High Softball team. This year’s Chieftains team has no seniors for the first time in a year. It has several experienced players, but it has no seniors. On top of that, the[Read More…]
Chieftains More Competitive This Year
Derek Nelson would gladly accept a team of guys who could play the game as well as he could when he was an all-league selection with the Chieftains before he graduated in 2019. He hopes to have a team full of guys who played as hard as he did in[Read More…]
Spring Whale Watch Week
Oregon State Parks will host Spring Whale Watch Week along the Oregon Coast Saturday, March 23 through Sunday, March 31. Trained Oregon State Park volunteers will be stationed at 15 sites along the Oregon Coast to help visitors spot whales and their calves and answer questions from 10 a.m. to[Read More…]