Western populations of monarch butterflies are declining, but you can help them by planting native milkweed next spring. Monarchs leave Canada and move through the U.S., including Oregon, in fall. Birds Canada is part of Project Monarch, a continent-wide collaboration that is now following individual monarchs from across North America[Read More…]
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Chief Boys Have Three Champions At Scio
Provided they remain healthy, Rogue River’s male wrestlers could have a special season this year. Two wrestlers, Lucas Gunn at 175 pounds and Gianni Gervasi at 132 won weight-class titles each for the second week in a row at the Gary McDaniels Memorial Tournament at Scio on Sat., Dec. 13.[Read More…]
Cultivating Medford’s Writing Community
The Medford Writers Group has become a welcoming creative space for writers of all backgrounds, offering encouragement, structure, and community inside the Medford Library. Hosted by Jackie McGarry and Brystan Strong, the regular workshop invites adult writers to gather, write, and share their work in a supportive, low-pressure environment. Strong[Read More…]
Out Of Nowhere, Girls’ Basketball Season Starts Again
As dispiriting as the end of the 2024-25 girls’ basketball season appeared to be for the Rogue River Jr. Sr. High girls’ basketball season, it might not have been such a surprise if not many girls decided to come back and play, not enough to field a team. Though he[Read More…]
Headlines & Highlights For December 17, 2025
DEC. 18, 1980 If your child attends Evans Valley School, you can rest assured that a great deal of thought and experience is going into the planning, cooking, and serving of school lunches. Beverly Quick was the head chef, assisted by Sharon Keech. Even though the State regulations governing nutritional[Read More…]
ODOT Road Construction Update For December 17, 2025
JACKSON COUNTY • INTERSTATE 5 (Pacific Highway), MP 1-163, Southern Oregon Wrong Way Driver Mitigation project ($2.5 million), https://www.oregon.gov/odot/projects/pages/project-details.aspx?project=21699 This project improves safety along Interstate 5 by adding features that alert drivers when they enter an interchange off-ramp from the wrong direction. These enhancements include permanent signs, reflective pavement markings[Read More…]
Chiefs Win Tourney Game, Reach Classic Title Game
Since Max Javernick was hired as boys’ basketball coach at Rogue River Jr. Sr. High School in 2022, he has managed to build a program, get buy-in from players already in the players and the ones moving up to high school ball, and now has a program that includes only[Read More…]
Chieftain Girls Win Scio Meet With Three Champs
The Rogue River Jr. Sr. High girls’ wrestling team, for the second week in a row, had three weight-class champions but this time didn’t have to settle for second place overall. The Chieftains finished first at the 17-team Gary McDaniel Memorial Tournament at Scio, with all nine wrestlers earning at[Read More…]
US Marshals Track Down Suspect
The United States Marshals Service led Pacific Northwest Violent Offender Task Force (PNVOTF) tracked down and arrested a wanted Central Point man hiding out in Alturas, California on November 25. The suspect had a felony warrant following a Southern Oregon Child Exploitation Team (SOCET) investigation into possession of Child Sexual[Read More…]
EVFD Considers Funding For Apparatus Replacement
Chief Tom Davidson informed the Board of Directors for the Evans Valley Fire District that he had outlined a 10-year plan, primarily replacing fire apparatuses within their recommended cycles, at the board’s meeting on Thursday, Dec. 11. To stay within National Fire Protection Agency regulations, and replace anything from its[Read More…]