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STEELTON - Workers at the now-idled steel mill here are down, certainly. But not yet out. At least that was the vibe at a ...
‘Steel Sun’ project would add solar panels near wind turbines at former Bethlehem Steel site in ... Remnants of the steel mill remain. A recent tour showed deteriorated coke ovens flanked by ...
Robert, a former Bethlehem Steel executive vice president, joins 2Way host Mark Halperin to explain why President Donald Trump won the 2024 election. "I also voted for Ronald Reagan and all of ...
The steel industry struggled in the 1980s and production halted in Bethlehem in 1995. Seeking a solution for the massive brownfield site left behind, the town launched a project to save the ...
1916-1999: Bethlehem Steel’s fluctuating success, the World Wars and violations. In 1916, about two years into World War I, Bethlehem Steel officially acquired the mill and steelyard at Sparrows Point ...
Steven Walsh’s film, “Southeast: a City Within a City,” explores the impact of the decline of the city’s steel mills on the people who lived nearby and worked in the mills.
Former Bethlehem Steel facility reopens to make solar trackers 02:18. LEETSDALE, Pa. (KDKA) ... He gave local and national leaders a tour of the facility on Tuesday.
The 2020 census counted 19,949 people in Lackawanna. In the late ’50s and ’60s, when “Lackawanna Blues” is set, the town was thriving, courtesy of the Bethlehem Steel mill.
Bethlehem Steel's Sparrow Point mill was once the world's largest producer of steel. But competition from foreign steel, lack of investments and a changing economy caused the company to go ...
The Bethlehem steel mill in Maryland was once the largest working mill in the world, employing 30,000 people at its peak in the 1950's. The collapse of the American steel industry forced the mill ...
When people think of south Bethlehem today – specifically the land once owned by Bethlehem Steel Corp. – thoughts invariably turn to entertainment. People flock to ArtsQuest, the Wind Creek ...
Sparrows Point’s Bethlehem Steel mill, once the largest in the world, employed 30, 000 people at its height in the late 1950 s. Back then, Bannerman estimates, ...