Farmer-owned cooperative Norpac Foods will cut nearly 500 jobs in Marion County when it closes a food-processing plant in Stayton, Ore., in October.
The company filed noticed Aug. 30 with the state Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification program that it would lay off 485 workers starting Oct. 31 with the closing of the processing plant.
The 95-year-old fruit and vegetable company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in August and announced plans to sell most of its assets to the Oregon Potato…
