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Hood Packaging facility in Vancouver to close, laying off 94

Ninety-four people will lose their jobs this summer when Hood Packaging Corp. shutters its nearly 80-year-old Vancouver operation.

The Mississippi-based company filed a closure notification Tuesday with the Washington State Employment Security Department. Layoffs will begin Aug. 1.

Paper packaging plant, then owned by Bemis Co., opened in 1947

Two people found dead in Battle Ground home in what police are calling a double homicide

Two people were found dead Tuesday morning in

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