Sarah Poe, Malheur County Health Department director said she believes the local community has an opportunity to band together to defeat the Covid epidemic. (CDC file art) ONTARIO – Malheur County now confronts an opportunity to rise to the occasion to defeat Covid in much the same way the nation[Read More…]

Brandon Mott, of the Diamond Gallery in Ontario, looks through a catalog of rings last week. Mott said the Covid pandemic made an impact on the local jewelry store early in the year but business picked up later (The Enterprise/Pat Caldwell). VALE – When Malinda Castleberry opened Mal’s Diner in[Read More…]

Idaho’s Southwest District Health issued a Covid advisory Friday and urged people to follow social distancing guidelines and to wear masks. (The Enterprise/File). FRUITLAND – Idaho residents living just across the border from Malheur County were urged by health officials Friday to adopt even more stringent limits as counties recorded[Read More…]

Restrictions due to COVID-19 have halted gatherings including the face-to-face group meetings that have long been a mainstay of addiction treatment and counseling. (The Enterprise/file) [ NOTE: The Enterprise is providing free access to this important coverage as a community service. Help us do so: SUBSCRIBE. ] ONTARIO – The[Read More…]

The Malheur County Health Department will host a drive-thru COVID-19 testing Oct. 14 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Malheur County Fairgrounds. (The Enterprise/File). ONTARIO – Local public health officials hope a large-scale testing event set this week will help uncover crucial information to measure and stop the[Read More…]

A free Covid testing event will be held Monday in Nyssa. (The Enterprise/File) NYSSA – The Malheur County Health Department will sponsor free Covid testing Monday in Nyssa. The testing event will be at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at 1309 Park Avenue in Nyssa from 10[Read More…]

Sarah Poe, Malheur County Health Department director receives a Covid test recently. (Kezia Setyawan/The Enterprise) ONTARIO – The status of the Covid virus in Malheur County has not changed dramatically in the past two months and a key objective to help contain the Covid virus revolves around testing. That was[Read More…]

Matt Stringer, executive director of Four Rivers Cultural Center, and Kelly Hunsaker, an employee at Red Apple Marketplace, carry food into the facility that will be used for food boxes to help isolated Covid patients. (The Enterprise/Pat Caldwell). ONTARIO – A food box program at Four Rivers Cultural Center is[Read More…]

Malheur County elected readers plan to use federal Covid relief money to upgrade the air system at the courthouse and several other buildings. (The Enterprise/Rachel Parsons) VALE – Malheur County plans to use Covid relief money from the state for a new air ventilation project at the jail and the[Read More…]

Angelica Resendiz, a registered nurse with the Malheur County Health Department shows one of the syringes used to deliver flu vaccine. (The Enterprise/Pat Caldwell). ONTARIO – Health officials will remain locked in a long struggle to tame Covid until a vaccine is developed and distributed, but even then, the virus[Read More…]