Nyssa School staff member Mandy Esplin helps adjust a mask for Ethan Castro as he gets ready for kindergarten class. (The Enterprise/Les Zaitz) ONTARIO – Malheur County students and school staff will be required to wear face masks while indoors at the start of this upcoming school year under a[Read More…]
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Vale School District ditches masks for upcoming school year
VALE – After new guidance from the Oregon Department of Education which allows for greater local control over Covid restrictions, the Vale School Board has set new, looser protocols for the district. They include recommending but not requiring face coverings for students and staff and providing them free Covid testing.[Read More…]
Vale team brings home honors from automotive skills meet
William Tolman, a rising senior at Vale High School, placed first in power equipment technology at the Skills USA National Leadership and Skills Conference. (Submitted photo) VALE – Last year, when the Skills USA National Leadership and Skills Conference was canceled due to Covid, William Tolman said he was “bummed.”[Read More…]
Ontario students continue their work into the summer – outside
Ontario School District Outdoors teacher Clarissa Helliwell instructs a group of kids at Beck-Kiwanis Park. (The Enterprise/Liliana Frankel) ONTARIO – School may be out for the season, but a full spread of summer options available from the Ontario School District means that kids are still at work – some of[Read More…]
Enterprise sues Ontario School Board for records leading to censures
ONTARIO – The Malheur Enterprise is suing the Ontario School Board over its repeated refusal to release documents relating to the censures of Vice Board Chair Eric Evans and former member Derrick Draper. The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press is representing the Enterprise in that organization’s first Local[Read More…]
Feds end funding for TVCC migrant ed program
College Assistant Migrant Program (CAMP) staff Valeria Guaddarrama, adviser and retention specialist (left) and Hector Aguirre, director of the High School Equivalency Program, in the CAMP room at Treasure Valley Community College on Friday, June 11, 2021. (Liliana Frankel/The Enterprise) ONTARIO – When Omar Robles, 19, was a senior at[Read More…]
Malheur County schools ready for summer classes as state money flows in
Clarissa Helliwell, who has taught in dual language programs in Ontario and Nyssa, will teach with OSD Outdoors this summer. (The Enterprise/Liliana Frankel) ONTARIO – More local students than usual will be going to school this summer, taking advantage of expanded programs that districts are offering to help students catch[Read More…]
Vale Elementary School teacher voted Malheur Regional Teacher of the Year
Kindergarten teacher Whitney Barnes of Vale Elementary School is the 2021 Malheur Regional Teacher of the Year. (The Enterprise/Liliana Frankel) VALE – As a child, teacher Whitney Barnes wasn’t the best student. But the extra effort she needed to succeed in school enabled her current empathy for struggling students in[Read More…]
Area high schools set in-person graduation dates
Vale High School (The Enterprise/Pat Caldwell) VALE – Local high schools plan to have their graduation ceremonies in-person this year, with varying degrees of adaptations for the risk of Covid. At Adrian High School, graduation will take place on Sunday, May 30, at 6 p.m. “We’re definitely moving ahead with[Read More…]
Vale school board hopefuls cite leadership, teamwork
Vale High School. (The Enterprise/Rachel Parsons) VALE – The Vale School Board race this year features four out of five seats up for grabs in the May 18 election. Incumbents Darlene McConnell and Jason Chamberlain are running for reelection unopposed and Jason Johnson, a cattle rancher, is unopposed to fill[Read More…]