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Sparrows Point purchased for $72 million by plant liquidator
A liquidation firm won the bidding for Sparrows Point, offering $72 million for the Baltimore County steel mill — less than a tenth of what the complex sold for just four years earlier — and realizing the worst fears of its roughly 2,000...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Solyndra LLC, Bankruptcy
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Workers mourn Sparrows Point steel mill
For generations of Sparrows Point steelworkers, Micky's restaurant on North Point Boulevard was the place to go for a sandwich before work, a pile of chicken gizzards for lunch or a few Natty Bohs to cap off a double shift.
On paydays, when the eatery...Tags: Career and Workplace, Unemployment, Employees, Bankruptcy, Economy, Business and Finance
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While you're Musikfesting at the Steel, learn something about industrial history
Lehigh Valley Music presents FESTBLOGGuest post from Bethlehem reporter Nicole Radzievich. If you're looking for an off-beat stop at Musikfest this weekend, stop by the National Museum of Industrial History on the southern edge of the SteelStacks campus. There's a steam-powered calliope on... -
With new buyer, Sparrows Point faces a possible end to decades of steelmaking
Steel from Sparrows Point built the Golden Gate Bridge, the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, hundreds of ships for World War II and livelihoods for tens of thousands of Baltimore-area families.
The story of the massive steel mill follows the arc of American...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Bankruptcy, Shipbuilding, Kevin Kamenetz
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Balto. Co. hopes to take advantage of port expansion
With the Sparrows Point steel mill preparing for a shutdown next week and a possible sale, Baltimore County officials began looking Wednesday for ways to redevelop the peninsula, bringing new jobs and businesses to the area around the ailing plant. In...Tags: Career and Workplace, Panama, Port of Baltimore, Unemployment, Rossville
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Heading back down Route 66
Baltimoreans and Marylanders have become blase about actors being in their midst, along with bellowing directors, film crews, blocked-off streets filled with Hollywood's iconic caravans of trucks, trailers and spotlights, and sidewalks choked with zig-...Tags: Towson, Shipbuilding, Movies, Celebrities, Yaphet Kotto
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Albert Richard Baines Jr., tool designer and WWII veteran
Albert Richard Baines Jr., a retired tool designer for Westinghouse Electric Corp. and World War II veteran, died Tuesday at his home in Arnold. He was 92.
According to the funeral home handling his service, his death was due to "natural causes."
Born...Tags: Boy Scouts of America, Glen Burnie, Funeral Parlor and Crematorium, Bethlehem Steel Corp., NASA
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Charles L. "Boot" Shaffer, 92, Friedens, formerly of Kimmelton
Charles L. "Boot" Shaffer, 92, Friedens, formerly of Kimmelton, died July 7, 2012 at The Patriot. Born Jan. 24, 1920 in Kimmelton, a son of Lewis and Anna (Lohr) Shaffer. Preceded in death by parents, five sisters and eight brothers. Survived by his...Tags: Friedens, American Legion, Somerset County (Pennsylvania), Human Interest
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John O. DeVries II, real estate salesman
John Oliver DeVries II, a retired real estate salesman and former lacrosse player, died July 7 of complications after surgery at Gilchrist Hospice. He was 83 and had lived in Roland Park.
Born in Baltimore and raised on Keswick Road, he attended the...Tags: Loyola University Maryland, Lacrosse, Real Estate, College Sports, Football
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Arthur E. Petersen Sr., educator
Arthur Everett Petersen Sr., a pioneering African-American educator whose career with Baltimore County public schools spanned four decades and the era of segregated schools, died July 6 of a heart attack at his West Baltimore home.
He was 94.
"Arthur...Tags: Education, Baltimore County, Columbia University, Religion and Belief, University of Maryland, College Park
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Expected layoffs at Sparrows Point hang over workers
They know massive layoffs loom, but Sparrows Point steelworkers who gathered at Micky's Bar after work Monday — the expected start of cuts — hadn't been told if or when they'd be out of a job. State and local officials trying to ramp up...Tags: Career and Workplace, Crime, Law and Justice, Layoffs and Downsizing, Unemployment, Unemployment Benefits
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New Cambria commissioners eyeing CSA holdings
Daily American Staff WriterNew leadership in Cambria County could bring changes to the Cambria Somerset Authority and its holdings. According to Commissioner Mark Wissinger — the county’s representative to the board — it may be time for a re-evaluation. “...Tags: Finance, Somerset County (Pennsylvania), Bethlehem Steel Corp., Local Government, Economy, Business and Finance
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