date:Jun 13, 2012
In April, plant owner Archer Daniels Midland Co. closed it, citing lackluster returns. The plant's 61 employees lost their jobs, and Walhalla lost its biggest source of tax revenue.
Jobs like that are hard to come by, said Chris Jackson, Walhalla's 32-year-old mayor and proprietor of its main watering hole, Jackson's Bar. Business has suffered at the bar and the city's two motels and gas stations because truck traffic to the plant has ended. The mayor says some residents who worked at the plan