TROY HEIE, who has worked on Rogue Valley newspapers for 25 years, will serve as city editor for the Rogue Valley Tribune.

Troy most recently served as the copy desk chief at the Mail Tribune and previously was a reporter, copy editor and page designer for print and digital publications locally, starting at the Ashland Daily Tidings in 1993.

A journalism major at Cal Poly Humboldt, he also was a reporter for the Los Angeles Times’ Ventura County edition in 1998.

Troy will work with Rogue Valley Tribune editors and reporters daily and also will help coordinate the Rogue Valley Tribune print publications.

You can reach Troy at theie@rvtrib.com.

A native Rogue Valley resident with a lifelong interest in the arts, ALISSA CORMAN is the Features Editor for the Rogue Valley Tribune.

Her primary responsibility will be shepherding our arts and entertainment coverage online, and she will coordinate the Go! Rogue section that will appear in Thursday print editions. Alissa will make sure our entertainment and activities listings are comprehensive and up to date, and keep readers current on the region’s theater, visual and performing arts, festivals, activities and live music.

“The Rogue Valley is home to me,” she says, “and the arts scene here is incredibly strong. There’s always something going on.”

You can reach Alissa at acorman@rvtrib.com.

KRIS HENRY, the Rogue Valley Tribune sports editor, has 25 years of experience serving the Southern Oregon community as a sports reporter and editor.

The former Mail Tribune sports editor, Kris has written everything from game stories to features to columns, as well as worked on the desk taking game reports and designing pages.

“Covering high school and community sports has always been a passion of mine,” he says. “Being able to document those special moments in the life of a young athlete is a privilege and responsibility that I have taken great pride in since I got my professional start 28 years ago.”

Kris was the 2022 recipient of the Media Award presented by the Oregon Athletic Coaches Association and has earned numerous awards as a sportswriter from the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association and Society of Professional Journalists.

He was national runner-up in the Associated Press Sports Editors 2018 contest for Breaking News.

Henry also proudly serves as a member of the Southern Oregon Sports Commission and Medford Sports Hall of Fame committee, and has spent nearly two decades as a youth sports coach and volunteer in football, baseball, soccer and basketball across Medford.

“It’s exciting to be able to continue telling the incredible stories that stem from the amazing folks here in the Rogue Valley,” said Henry.

A familiar name has been brought kicking and screaming out of retirement (and off the golf course) to be the Opinion editor of the Rogue Valley Tribune.

ROBERT GALVIN, whose 40-plus years in newspapers included 20 at the Mail Tribune in a variety of roles, will be responsible for writing editorials and columns for the paper, along with fielding reader submissions by way of Guest Opinions and Letters to the Editor.

“We have a vocal and politically diverse population that is passionate about local, regional and national issues,” Rob says, “and I’m glad to be part of once again giving those voices a place to be heard.”

A graduate of the University of Massachusetts, he worked at papers there and in Florida as a news reporter, sports reporter, columnist, theater and movie reviewer, and profile writer before joining the Mail Tribune in a management role in 1999.

Rob is also known to readers for a succession of columns he wrote for the Mail Tribune on entertainment, culture, cats and general-interest topics, most recently the award-winning Sunday offering “Get Off My Lawn.”

You can reach Rob at rgalvin@rvtrib.com.

After nearly three decades as a journalist and photographer, BUFFY POLLOCK prides herself on establishing long-term community connections and having a knack for reporting on unique and in-depth news.

Buffy, who will cover a variety of beats, began scribbling stories and random bits of information into notepads at a young age and grew up watching “60 Minutes,” local news broadcasts and reading the daily paper.

Buffy began her career as a freelance reporter for the Tampa Tribune in her native central Florida in 1996 and earned a multimedia (print and broadcast) degree from Polk State College in 2000. She came to Southern Oregon months later and quickly gained a reputation for in-depth reporting of news and topics of human interest.

Her favorite thing about community reporting is the ability to hold local government and other entities accountable and to help document stories of the people who live, work and impact daily life in the Rogue Valley.

“Bad days don’t exist,” Buffy says, “and every situation, no matter how good or bad, has the making for a great story.”

ERICK BENGEL, who will cover social issues and health care for the Rogue Valley Tribune, has spent many years working as a journalist for the EO Media Group on the North Oregon Coast. In 2011, he interned at The Astorian through the Snowden internship program and later worked as a reporter and features editor at the publication.

Long ago, he majored in English literature and minored in philosophy at Southern Oregon University, while working at Rogue Valley Community Television. He continued his education in Portland and went on to study journalism at Columbia University in New York.

While Southern Oregon is not his homeland, it is the first region Bengel ever thought of as his home. Along the Rogue River and in the shadow of Grizzly Peak he learned what it means to fall in love with a place. He looks forward to returning to tell its story, and be present at the birth of a newspaper.

Among BILL MILLER’S fondest memories of his Oregon upbringing are the days he spent listening to Mrs. Joseph, his elementary school teacher telling his class stories about Sacajawea, Lewis & Clark and others from the earliest days of the state.

“She said each of us was a pioneer, and I think we all believed her,” Bill says. “I know I did.”

Along with the school days, Bill says it was his great-grandmother — who would read to him the letters of his Civil War ancestors — that permanently hooked him on history.

Bill, who spent nearly two decades at the Mail Tribune as a reporter and columnist, brings his passion and perspective to the Rogue Valley Tribune with stories about the region’s past in a regular column.

“I try to find the humanity in the stories I write, the little things overlooked in a person’s daily life,” he says. “I prefer to tell the tales of everyday people, who so often have been forgotten.”