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Article: Bandon's last link to cheese shuttered.(Business)(The town's retail store closes down five years after the creamery moved away)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- October 5, 2005
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Byline: Winston Ross The Register-Guard
BANDON - This town's last link to its handmade-cheese-making history was severed on Tuesday, when the Tillamook County Creamery Association locked the doors of the Bandon Cheese retail store and laid off its six full-time and five seasonal employees.
The store was a tourist draw because it offered samples of Bandon Cheese, but the product hasn't been manufactured on the South Coast for the past five years. The creamery moved the cheese-making operation to facilities in Boardman and Tillamook after buying the business in 2000.
The creamery association, makers of the well-known Tillamook Cheese, explained ...