Railroad ties are stocked outside of Nyssa on Tuesday, April 12, to be used on miles of rail track planned for the Treasure Valley Reload Center. One $2.7 million track remains optional as costs rise for the project, officials say. (The Enterprise/LES ZAITZ) VALE – Malheur County has been ordered[Read More…]
Author: Les Zaitz – Malheur Enterprise
Ballots en route to voters will determine fate of key county offices
The Malheur County Courthouse in Vale, and sites in Ontario, Nyssa and Jordan Valley serve as collection points for ballots. (The Enterprise/FILE) More than 17,000 voters in Malheur County are getting ballots this week for the 2022 Primary Election that could change the face of county government. Ballots go out[Read More…]
Vale museum gets ready for spring opening with cleanup party
The Rinehart Stone House Museum will open up again with a spring cleanup project Saturday, April 30, 2022. Volunteers are welcome to bring garden tools and paint brushes to help. (The Enterprise/SCOTTA CALLISTER) VALE – The Rinehart Stone House Museum stirs back to life this weekend and volunteers are needed[Read More…]
Rail board cites needs vs ‘wants’ as costs escalate for Nyssa onion shipping center
Grant Kitamura, left, and Corey Maag listen to a briefing on the Treasure Valley Reload Center on April 12. Kitamura is president of Malheur County Development Corp. and Maag is a director. (ANGIE SILLONIS/Special to the Enterprise) The board of Malheur County Development Corp. in a recent statement compared its[Read More…]
Experts mum about need for costly extra Nyssa rail spur
Railroad ties are stocked outside of Nyssa on Tuesday, April 12, to be used on miles of rail track planned for the Treasure Valley Reload Center. One $2.7 million track remains optional, officials say. (The Enterprise/LES ZAITZ) NYSSA – As officials discuss the fate of the Treasure Valley Reload Center,[Read More…]
Oregon Eastern RR expanding reload operations at Vale
VALE – Rail cars loaded with lumber will be rumbling into Vale after Oregon Eastern Railroad finished expansion of its operations in Vale and is anticipating more rail business. Meantime, the railroad is in line for a $1 million state grant to upgrade track and one bridge. “We want to[Read More…]
Trucks damaging county roads on way to Nyssa reload project
Construction crews work on creating beds for rail tracks at the Treasure Valley Reload Center north of Nyssa on Tuesday, April 12. (LES ZAITZ/The Enterprise) NYSSA – A rural roadway north of Nyssa is taking a pounding from construction truck traffic, requiring a small taxpayer-supported road district to continually make[Read More…]
Fatal ditch wreck draws OSHA fine for Vale district
VALE – As was routine, John Harrison and a co-worker at Vale Oregon Irrigation District checked out their trucks before start the day’s chores. For three weeks, the two had been hauling concrete chunks and other material along to shore up banks of a canal running north and west of[Read More…]
Nyssa project can’t tap state program cited as one source for emergency $9.8 million
The troubled Treasure Valley Reload Center doesn’t qualify for state funding that project officials said could provide up to $9.8 million needed to finish the Nyssa project. And other options also have obstacles that make it doubtful the money could be in hand soon enough to keep contractors going. Failure[Read More…]
Planned Parenthood leasing clinic space in Ontario
(Enterprise file) ONTARIO – Planned Parenthood is planning to open an Ontario clinic as one of its affiliates challenges a strict new abortion law in Idaho. Planned Parenthood Columbia Willamette, based in Portland, is leasing what had been the clinic for Four Rivers Health Care at 640 S.W. 4th Ave.[Read More…]