For some Oregonians, the race for governor isn’t about who can raise the most money. And these voters aren’t interested in who can parrot party platforms without flaw. Instead, they seek a new governor who is somewhat blind to party affiliation. Such a governor, they think, can unite the state.[Read More…]

I got the name Sheehan from my Irish husband. On St Patrick’s Day, he played his tin whistle and his harmonica, and I played the keyboard at a restaurant. We each took the day off without pay, but we were so proud of the money in that tip jar – although[Read More…]

The responsibility for the weak performance of the Malheur County Economic Development Department rests with three people: Malheur County Judge Dan Joyce, Commissioner Don Hodge, and Commissioner Ron Jacobs. As commissioners, they have the duty to oversee that agency and their contractor, Greg Smith. They are expected to determine that[Read More…]

Letters to the editor may be sent to [email protected]. As a commissioner of Malheur County I would like to respond to the article published by the Malheur Enterprise. Since my term began in January 2021, I have spent much of my time getting to know the department heads and gaining[Read More…]

Letters to the editor may be sent to [email protected]. To the Editor: Gregory Smith has a poker player’s dilemma with the $100,000 per year contract he signed with the Malheur County Court to do economic development work. If he folds his bad hand, admitting that he did not perform parts[Read More…]

Abbey McDonald (left) and Joey Cappelletti spent the summer of 2021 as reporters in Vale as part of the Enterprise internship program. (PAT CALDWELL/The Enterprise) We’re proud of the summer internship program we’ve established at the Malheur Enterprise and we hope you are too. And once again, we’re planning to[Read More…]

The ornaments are out of the box again, signaling the festive Christmas season is here. (The Enterprise/File) We’re the family who skips pumpkin spice and goes straight to peppermint cocoa.  We carved pumpkins while listening to Frank Sinatra sing Jingle Bells. We brainstormed Christmas gifts while we plunged apples down[Read More…]

Cowboy poet and veterinarian Baxter Black writes about the ranching life in his column “On the Edge of Common Sense.” (www.baxterblack.com) I had just finished loading 184 seven-foot steel T-posts, old ones, by the way, in my pickup and was unloading a mere 24 bales of hay from the front[Read More…]

(Enterprise file photo) For several weeks now, I’ve had the sense of something coming to an end—that old September feeling of summer passing, another fall, another page turning, only it seemed somehow more melancholy. It wasn’t until the last farmers market that I was able to put my finger on[Read More…]

A health worker prepared vaccines for use in a clinic held earlier this year in Ontario. (Enterprise/File photo) In March of 2020, when the world was living in fear of the unknown virus, I remember being relieved that the disease affected adults more than children. With the delta variant, that[Read More…]