BETHEL — More than a decade after the Bethel Furniture Stock mill closed its wood products operation in the face of foreign competition and high energy prices, a different kind of manufacturing ...

At lunch time at a long table in The Gem lobby, Governor Mills chatted with Bethel Chamber of Commerce members, Jessie Perkins, Wade Kavanaugh, Beth Weisberger, and John Walker.

A new mill at Sparrows Point that could be vital to the future of Bethlehem Steel Corp. got up and running over the weekend. The $300 million mill replaces one that ran on 1940s and 1950s technology.