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Archive Home > 2008 > February > 24 > Les Schwab’s departure leaves hole in Prineville

Les Schwab’s departure leaves hole in Prineville

• The Crook County town has been home to the tire empire’s headquarters since the 1950s. Soon, Prineville must cope with the loss of about 300 jobs to Bend.

By Erin Golden / The Bulletin
February 24, 2008

PRINEVILLE — On almost every weekday afternoon for more than a decade, tire magnate Les Schwab took lunch with his company executives in the same place: a corner table at Meadow Lakes Restaurant with a panoramic view of the golf course.

More than nine months after Schwab’s....

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