Tanya Navarrete, marketing and development director at the Four Rivers Cultural Center, waves to a group of trick-or-treaters Tuesday in Vale. Similar parades were held in Nyssa and Ontario. Lincoln Pillatzke, 19 months, gets ready to collect some candy from the Four Rivers Cultural Center’s pop up parade Tuesday in[Read More…]

Jesse Weaver is bucked off during the special Thunderegg Throwdown Rodeo held on Friday, July 10, in Nyssa. He won $470 with $100 deducted from the winnings to get a custom buckle. (Kezia Setyawan/The Enterprise) NYSSA – About 250 people braved the heat to attend the first annual Thunderegg Throwdown Rodeo on[Read More…]

OHS graduate Melissa Jagelski waves to well-wishers Wednesday. (The Enterprise/Pat Caldwell). Family and friends celebrated a major milestone with Ontario High School graduates Wednesday.(The Enterprise/Pat Caldwell). As OHS graduates clutched their diplomas, families quickly snapped photos during the drive-by graduation at Ontario High School. (The Enterprise/Pat Caldwell). Signs, balloons and[Read More…]

Vale High School held a parade through town for this year’s graduating class on Sunday, May 24. (The Enterprise/Yadira Lopez) The class of 2020 in Malheur County continues to celebrate the end of a strange senior year marked by the COVID-19 pandemic. In Vale and Nyssa, parades showcased this year’s[Read More…]

Cadi Corn, the third time Malheur County Spelling Bee champion, adjusts her medal during the awards ceremony at Nyssa Elementary following the competition on Thursday, March 12. Corn correctly spelled “atrocity” during the final bee. (The Enterprise/Joe Siess) NYSSA – The room was silent as the now three time Malheur[Read More…]

Beti Alai, an Ontario-based Basque folk dance group, performed at the 73rd annual Ontario Basque Charity Dinner and Dance Saturday, Feb. 29. (The Enterprise/Yadira Lopez) Ontario – Four Rivers Cultural Center turned into a slice of Basque Country Saturday for the annual Ontario Basque Charity Dinner and Dance – now[Read More…]

Harper Carroll learns how to play the ukulele for the first time in Susie Lott’s kindergarten music class at Aiken Elementary School on Friday, Jan. 24. (The Enterprise/Joe Siess) ONTARIO – Kindergarten students in music teacher Susie Lott’s class at Aiken Elementary School started learning how to play the ukulele[Read More…]

Fireworks bloom in the sky above Vale, dazzling viewers below. (Kat Seals-KnR Photography/Special to the Enterprise) VALE – The community’s annual fireworks show elicited plenty of “oohs” and “aahs” from residents who gathered to watch from below. The Dec. 31 event, put on by the Vale Chamber of Commerce, heralded[Read More…]

Ontario’s Maritza Gonzalez and Nyssa’s Yvette Martinez battle it out in the 235-pound bracket at the Calhoun Classic wrestling tournament in Nyssa. (The Enterprise/Joe Siess) NYSSA – Wrestlers from two states converged at Nyssa High for the annual Calhoun Classic Wrestling tournament. More than 20 teams competed in the two-day[Read More…]

James Howard, an inmate at Snake River Correctional Institution, works in the woodworking room in the prison’s physical plant facility. (The Enterprise/Joe Siess) ONTARIO – At Snake River, inmates have a chance to vie for jobs in the prison’s physical plant to develop valued skills for the workforce after they[Read More…]