UPDATED Oct. 31, 2022 What is it? The Treasure Valley Reload Center will be a shipping center where Treasure Valley farm products can be unloaded from trucks and loaded onto rail cars. A warehouse and rail spurs are the centerpiece. To start, only onions would move through the center. The[Read More…]
Author: By Les Zaitz - The Enterprise
Governor pushes extra $3 million for Nyssa rail center to cover cost overruns
Gov. Kate Brown is riding to the rescue of the Treasure Valley Reload Center, supporting $3 million in new state funding, with more to come if needed. The taxpayer bailout is crucial to finish the Nyssa rail shipping center, which is far over budget and behind schedule. Such funding would[Read More…]
Covid cases on the rise in Malheur County, vaccination rate remains low
ONTARIO – Malheur County has been experiencing an increasing level of Covid cases and hospitalizations for the virus, moving the county into the “high” category rating by federal authorities. No new mandates have been imposed, however. Sarah Poe, director of the Malheur County Health Department, said in a statement Friday,[Read More…]
Ontario contractor finds building affordable housing is not mission impossible
ONTARIO – A local contractor is determined to help people get on their feet with affordable housing and is methodically sprucing up a section of Ontario to make that hope a reality. “My whole thing is to help people advance because I didn’t have anyone to help me,” said James[Read More…]
Ontario contractor finds building affordable housing is not mission impossible
ONTARIO – A local contractor is determined to help people get on their feet with affordable housing and is methodically sprucing up a section of Ontario to make that hope a reality. “My whole thing is to help people advance because I didn’t have anyone to help me,” said James[Read More…]
Uncategorized Ontario man charged with drug crimes, including possession of fentanyl
VALE – An Ontario man has been indicted on state drug charges for possessing methamphetamine and fentanyl just three years after being released from federal prison on an earlier drug conviction. The Malheur County grand jury on Thursday, June 16, charged Juan M. Silva Jr., 27, of Ontario, with unlawful[Read More…]
Engineering costs for Nyssa project jump with belated contract change
Brad Baird, president of Anderson Perry & Associates, said in an earlier meeting that a change to his company’s contract for work on the reload center was being drafted, and should have been done earlier. (ANGIE SILLONIS/Special to the Enterprise) The board of Malheur County Development Corp., which is managing[Read More…]
Probe finds residents enrolled in Nyssa’s migrant education program
(The Enterprise/FILE) NYSSA – Families who have lived in Nyssa for years were enrolled in a program intended to help migrant students who move from school district to school district, according to documents obtained by the Enterprise. The Nyssa School District is under investigation by state authorities for potentially illegal[Read More…]
Uncategorized Juntura meeting on June 13 will consider highway changes to cut wildlife collisions
Mule deer cross the road using an underpass at Lava Butte. (Enterprise/FILE) Every year, collisions between vehicles and deer on U.S. Highway 20 west of Vale cost more than $1 million. State officials found that the highway between Harper and Juntura had among the highest rates of such collisions anywhere[Read More…]
Nyssa rail center stopped in its tracks – no money for building
Greg Smith, Malheur County economic development director, speaks on April 12 to the board of the Malheur County Development Corp. (ANGIE SILLONIS/Special to the Enterprise) NYSSA – Construction of the centerpiece building for the long-planned Treasure Valley Reload Center was scuttled this week because there isn’t money to pay for[Read More…]