The former Golden West warehouse, at 418 Commercial Ave., Nyssa, is now under renovation by a California firm as a new onion packing facility. (Rachel Parsons/The Enterprise). NYSSA – Full steam ahead. That is report from Emelio Castañeda, president of Field Fresh Foods last week regarding a new onion packing[Read More…]

Local elected leaders hoped to use a $15 million federal grant to boost expansion of an industrial park near the site of a rail reload facility north of Nyssa. Last month, officials learned that federal authorities turned aside their application. (The Enterprise/File) NYSSA – Malheur County officials learned recently that[Read More…]

Pat Caldwell led the Enterprise staffers in the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association awards list, with seven awards. (Enterprise file photo). VALE – Fueled by seven first-place finishes, the Malheur Enterprise was awarded the journalism sweepstakes prize as the most honored weekly in the state by the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association.[Read More…]

Alicia Ruiz, Treasure Valley Relief Nursery case manager, shows how a newly designed, cost-free web system helps her organization conduct at-home visits in Malheur County. (The Enterprise/Pat Caldwell). ONTARIO – Ryan Doute spent years working for the U.S. Army disposing of chemical weapons or searching for weapons of mass destruction[Read More…]

Nyssa will soon welcome a new employer when Field Fresh Produce begins operations as soon as this fall in this former Golden West facility. (Rachel Parsons/The Enterprise) NYSSA – The nation’s largest supplier of fresh-packed fruits and vegetables for public schools plans to open a facility in Nyssa within the[Read More…]

Samantha Winebarger (left) and Jackie Lemer are the co-owners of the new business, Hempsentials, in Vale. The store offers CBD oil products such as topical creams, balms and pain lotions. (The Enterprise/Pat Caldwell). VALE – Jackie Lemer and Samantha Winebarger believe in the healing properties of cannabidiol – or CBD[Read More…]

Small businesses and groups are getting a boost to improve the local economy through new jobs and services thanks to two grants awarded this spring. The Eastern Oregon Border Economic Development Board awarded nearly $300,000 in its first-ever grant cycle. The board was created in the 2017 legislative session to encourage[Read More…]

Greg Smith, Malheur County’s economic development director, speaking to county commissioners last December. (The Enterprise/file) An investigation into state Rep. Greg Smith’s public and private ventures won honors for journalistic excellence for the Malheur Enterprise in results announced Monday night. “Public money, private empire” won first place in politics and[Read More…]

From left: Top Crop managers Nick Spoor, Austin Chadderdon, Jackson Seaman and co-owner Matt Chadwick. (The Enterprise/Yadira Lopez) ONTARIO – The most recent addition to Ontario’s pot shops opened Monday. But co-owner Matt Chadwick had been getting inquiries about Top Crop for months. “It’s been nonstop,” he said last week[Read More…]

The massive warehouse and shipping center in Wallula, Wash., is shutting down, taking away one way Malheur County growers got their onions to market. (Union Pacific photo) Union Pacific Railroad on Friday shut down its specialty rail shipping facility in Wallula, Wash., that has been a key resource for Malheur[Read More…]