More than 250 workers are set to be laid off from one food company in Washington County.

From Speers Borough to Fallowfield Township – it's a sad time.

"It's going to hurt us tremendously," Speers Borough Council President Curtis Rice said.

Rice is talking about the closure of Fourth Street Foods.

A posted Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) Notice on the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry's website says 252 people will be laid off by closure on October 31st.

Fourth Street Foods is a food manufacturer with a processing plant in Speers and another facility in Fallowfield Township.

Rice said the foods were made and put together at the Speers facility. Then, they were shipped to the Fallowfield facility.

"That's where the stuff will be packaged up the

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