Protesters wave a U.S. flag and homemade signs opposing statewide vaccine and mask mandates outside of Saint Alphonsus Medical Center in Ontario on Wednesday, Aug 25. (AUSTIN JOHNSON/The Enterprise) NOTE: The Enterprise is providing this free to the community as a public service to keep residents informed. Please share and please subscribe to[Read More…]

Jordan Valley School District. (Malheur Enterprise file photo/DAVID ZAITZ) NOTE: The Enterprise is providing this free to the community as a public service to keep residents informed. Please share and please subscribe to support this reporting. UPDATED: This story includes a new statement from the governor’s office. VALE – Gov. Kate Brown’s mandate[Read More…]

Eli Morcom works intently to color a baseball hat at the Drexel H. Foundation’s annual Art Camp in Vale on Tuesday, Aug. 10. (AUSTIN JOHNSON/The Enterprise) NOTE: The Enterprise is providing this free to the community as a public service to keep residents informed. Please share and please subscribe to support this[Read More…]

Here are selected comments about the current pandemic situation. These were provided in response to an invitation to the community by the Enterprise. Imagine where we’d be, if like Polio, or MMR (measles, mumps and eubella) vaccinations, people took the advice from doctors about the disease, instead of someone on social[Read More…]

A Moderna Covid vaccine vial with a soon to be filled vaccine passport card at Malheur Drug on Aug. 9. Health officials are increasingly worried about a recent spike in Covid cases locally. (The Enterprise/AUSTIN JOHNSON) ONTARIO – Malheur County is on the cusp of a major health crisis because[Read More…]

Gov. Kate Brown at a news conference in Portland on Thursday, March 12. (Jonathan House/Pamplin Media) The state is directing people in Malheur County and elsewhere in Oregon to wear masks when going into public places starting Friday, Aug. 13, in an effort to thwart a rapidly-spreading coronavirus variant. The[Read More…]

Pharmacist Jennifer Tolman of Malheur Drug administers Covid vaccine shot to a local resident on Monday, Aug. 9. (The Enterprise/AUSTIN JOHNSON) ONTARIO – Last October, Jennifer Tolman tested positive for Covid. Tolman, the pharmacist at Malheur Drug in Vale, did not experience severe symptoms. “It was like a cold and[Read More…]

Dana Castellani, the executive director for the Boys & Girls Club of Western Treasure Valley. (The Enterprise/Pat Caldwell) ONTARIO – The Boys and Girls Clubs of Western Treasure Valley’s Ontario clubhouse has temporarily shut down because of a reported outbreak of Covid. The Ontario operation will likely be shut until[Read More…]

UPDATE: State Sen. Lynn Findley on Wednesday morning provided additional remarks about the mandate. State legislators representing Malheur County are pushing back on the state’s mandate that everyone in schools must wear masks now. They are asking for community town halls and one legislators wants Gov. Kate Brown to suspend[Read More…]

Cases of Covid are on the rise in Oregon and in Malheur County, prompting health officials to urge residents to get vaccinated. (The Enterprise/FILE). ONTARIO – A man stopped by the Malheur County Health Department recently to get vaccinated against Covid, but he remained uneasy. The man asked once he[Read More…]