Willamette Valley Vineyards makes award-winning wine in the Portland-Salem area. The company just bought 42 acres in the Walla Walla vintner area close to Milton-Freewater. The name is so cool.
Oregon is boasting one of the lowest unemployment rates in the country right now, and Umatilla and Morrow counties on the southern end of the Mid Columbia are seeing the lowest unemployment rates since before the recession!