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Run, leap, throw!

Vale runners pass the baton in the relay events. (Enterprise photos/Scotta Callister) By Rachel Haueter For the Enterprise Eighteen schools, ranging from 1A through 4A in classification, participated in the Don Walker Memorial Track Meet hosted by Nyssa High School last Friday, April 1. As many as 80 athletes per[Read More…]

Water, land – and the state

By Pat Caldwell Malheur Enterprise VALE – At first glance, water and land rights in the American West may seem to be straightforward concepts. Yet each area comes with a complex array of history, legal theory and perception – and Monday night more than 100 people gathered in Ontario to[Read More…]

Shop by shop, we build a strong community

Vale Chamber members gathered last Friday to celebrate the opening of a new business on the city’s main thoroughfare. It isn’t a big department store or a mega data storage facility, as might make headlines in large urban communities, but an owner-operated hair and nail salon. Big city folks might[Read More…]

Hey, grads: Scholarship is offered

To the Editor: Please give a “heads up” to students graduating in 2016 that attended Mrs. Andrews’s class at Vale Elementary class that there is a $500 scholarship available. They need to contact Mrs. Barrass at Vale High School for more information. I will continue to sponsor this scholarship until[Read More…]

Nutella … as culture shock

Most people who travel through a wider world will tell you there’s no place like home, even after a couple of weeks deliciously wallowing in foreign food. That’s no offense to the land you love. On the other hand, we didn’t exactly originate all the best dishes of food in[Read More…]

Good neighbors, good fences

On the Edge of Common Sense By Baxter Black, DVM Jim said he had the best two-strand bob wire fence in the country. The ranchers who bordered him got together and fixed his fence. Now his pasture is getting thin and he’s only got half as many cows. That didn’t[Read More…]

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Craig Monroe Hawk

Craig Hawk Jackpot, Nevada – Craig Monroe Hawk, 57, passed away on March, 14, 2016 in Salt Lake City, Utah after complications sustained from nonhodgkins lymphoma. Craig was born on January 15, 1959 to Dave and Dona (Peterson) Hawk in Nyssa, Oregon. Growing up as one of five boys in Vale,[Read More…]

Death notices

Sherry Rennae Henderson, 53, of Ontario, died March 31, 2016 at home. Condoences to the family may be made at www.lienkaemper-thomason.com. Arrangements by Lienkaemper Chapel, Ontario.Melene L. Sperl, 61, of Nyssa, died at her home. Arrangements by Lienkaemper Chapel, Nyssa. Condolences to the family may be made at www.lienkaemper-thomason.com. Bill[Read More…]