ONTARIO – Next Tuesday, an assemblage of school buses will pull up at the Four Rivers Cultural Center to unleash a throng of kindergarteners. The youngsters will be there for the fourth annual stORytime, an early literacy campaign focused on making sure kids become proficient readers. StORytime began in 2015[Read More…]

Mark Redmond, superintendent of the Malheur Education Service District, which helps homeless students across Malheur County (The Enterprise/Carolyn Agrimis) VALE – The number of school students in Malheur County considered homeless continues to rise as school officials do what they can to help. State records show that in the 2016-17[Read More…]

Members of the Malheur County Development Corporation, the board that oversees the rail reload project, go over plans for the facility earlier this year. The preliminary work on the project is nearly complete. (The Enterprise/File) ONTARIO – Demand for rail shipping services from Malheur County will be more than the[Read More…]

The Skyline Fire is burning 400 acres southwest of Ironside. (Photo courtesy of the Vale District Bureau of Land Management) IRONSIDE — A lightning-caused fire southwest of Ironside by Wednesday morning had burned more than 467 acres of grazing range and was threatening livestock and the Beaver Creek Dam Wilderness[Read More…]

An aerial photo of the Coyote Creek fire burning south of Jordan Valley. (Photo courtesy of the BLM) VALE – Five fires are burning across Malheur County after thunderstorms rolled through the region, according to a report released Friday morning by the Vale BLM. Three of those fires are contained[Read More…]

Workers put the finishing touches on brickwork at the new Nyssa Middle School. The new facility will open for students next week. (The Enterprise/Kristine de Leon) NYSSA – On Monday, 280 Nyssa Middle School students will walk into an entirely different teaching and learning environment than what they had last[Read More…]

No Pot Ontario, a political action committee formed in 2016 to elect anti-marijuana city counselors in Ontario, will soon kick off a campaign opposing the ballot measure to lift the city’s ban on retail marijuana sales. (The Enterprise/File). ONTARIO – A political action committee formed two years ago to elect[Read More…]

Drew Pearson, rodeo coach at Treasure Valley Community College (The Enterprise/Max Egener) ONTARIO – Most people would call it quits after seriously breaking a leg in a first outing as a rodeo bullfighter. But Drew Pearson, rodeo coach for Treasure Valley Community College, decided to make a career out of[Read More…]

The fire that scuttled the granary at Dentinger’s Feed and Seed was ruled an accident by the state fire marshal last week. (The Enterprise/Pat Caldwell) VALE – Before the fire blazed it to the ground, the Dentinger Feed and Seed granary had been producing feed since 1943.  Today, the mill[Read More…]

A $100,000 donation will help Treasure Valley Community College buy equipment for a new Career and Technical Education Center. (Photo courtesy of the TVCC Foundation) Ontario – A Boise family understands how learning and training environments shape the student experience.  Henry Bettis and his wife, Laura, who oversee the Laura[Read More…]