Morgan King is operating the Coffee Cactus, a new coffee shop inside Bake-A-Deli in Ontario. (The Enterprise/Yadira Lopez) ONTARIO – Here’s something you don’t hear often these days: There’s a new business in town.  The Coffee Cactus set up shop inside Bake-A-Deli at 2609 SW 4th Ave, Ontario, this month.[Read More…]

Shawna Peterson, left, is chair of the Eastern Oregon Border Economic Development Board. (Enterprise/File) ONTARIO – The Eastern Oregon Border Economic Development Board is now taking applications for three grant programs designed to boost workforce training and improve local communities. The three programs will dispense up to $450,000. “We are[Read More…]

The Diamond Back sign outside the restaurant was replaced with a Starlite Café sign. (The Enterprise/Yadira Lopez) THIS STORY HAS BEEN UPDATED VALE – Four and a half months after closing, the Starlite Café plans on reopening. The restaurant sat at 152 Clark St. N. for 13 years until owner[Read More…]

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[Read More…]

Shari Morrison-Doke, a speech-language pathologist and the owner of Speech Tree, a speech therapy center, is surrounded by her employees as she cuts the ribbon at her new location in Ontario. (The Enterprise/Joe Siess) When Shari Morrison-Doke’s oldest son, Cooper, was 9 months old, he could use sign language to[Read More…]

Mara Kirby Garcia, co-owner of Kinney Bros & Keele True Value Hardware in Ontario helped coordinate a paint donation for renovation work at the Ontario Aquatics Center recently. (The Enterprise/Pat Caldwell) ONTARIO – Ask and you shall receive. The old adage rang true for members of the Ontario Recreation District[Read More…]

Chelsea Skeen stands with daughter Camreigh as they inspect the cookies inside the case ahead of opening day. (The Enterprise/Yadira Lopez) ONTARIO – Chelsea Skeen grew up baking cookies on her grandmother’s countertop. Now Skeen is starting a business venture that she knows would put her late grandmother over the[Read More…]

Greg Smith, Malheur County economic development director. (The Enterprise/File) VALE – Malheur County officials, in a foray into the industrial development business, plan to buy more than 200 acres of raw land, take the county $2 million into debt, and secure millions more to make the land useful to industry.[Read More…]

Alyssa Ramirez plays with her daughter Jaxi Ramirez at Toddler Town in Ontario. The indoor playground opened this week. (The Enterprise/Yadira Lopez) ONTARIO – Crystal Shearer dreamed of opening an indoor playground since she went to one herself with her two children. Now Shearer is bringing the experience to local[Read More…]

Wayne DeLong views the Vale-based train operation with pride. (The Enterprise/Pat Caldwell) VALE – The rain was just beginning to clear Friday morning as Wayne DeLong, the operations manager for the Oregon Eastern Railroad, watched the big blue locomotive engine roll past the crossing at 12th Street North. As the[Read More…]