Malheur County shoppers, stores adjust to plastic bag ban

Paper bags are stocked beneath a counter at Logan's Market in Vale, as grocery stores and other retailers across Oregon implement the state's new ban on plastic bags. (The Enterprise/Yadira Lopez)

VALE – The first day of the new decade brought with it a statewide ban on something that many local shoppers probably never thought twice about until now: Plastic bags.

Retailers can no . . .