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Wash cities, counties get $81 M to fix bridges
Seattle :: WA :: USA | over 2 years ago
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Officials cut ribbon for Camano Island bridge Officials cut ribbon for Camano Island bridge Officials and residents of Washington's Island County cut the ribbon Wednesday on a new bridge linking Stanwood to Camano Island. The bridge, which will open
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New life for Hylebos Creek environs
Tacoma :: WA :: USA | over 2 years ago
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Workers plants trees earlier this month on the hills above the mouth of the Hylebos Creek. Staff writer Published: 10/29/1012:05 am At first glance from a car traveling on Marine View Drive, the hillside above the mouth of Hylebos Creek looks like a
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Ship powers up from shore
Tacoma :: WA :: USA | over 2 years ago
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05 am A huge trailership three city blocks long tied into Tacoma's electrical grid for the first time Wednesday to cut pollution from the ship's diesel generators and to shave costs...Northstar thus became the first cargo ship calling on Puget Sound
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First cargo ships to plug in for power in Tacoma
Federal Way :: WA :: USA | over 2 years ago
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Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire and other officials are celebrating at a ceremony Wednesday at the Port of Tacoma...The private company is based in Federal Way, Wash., and serves Alaska's freight and cargo market.
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The Port of Tacoma's Falling fortunes While other ports see business rebound, the local facility is still sliding
Tacoma :: WA :: USA | over 2 years ago
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05 am From time to time during the last decade, Port of Tacoma executives and commissioners briefly wondered whether the rocket ride the port was taking would ever run out of thrust...And the port's container traffic trends continue downward even as
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Surge in shipping restores thousands of jobs in N.J.
Newark :: NJ :: USA | over 2 years ago
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Exports through the ports in New Jersey, which support hundreds of thousands of jobs around the state, are up nearly 20 percent by dollar value through July compared to the same, depressed period in 2009, while imports are up 23 percent, federal
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Port OKs lease that allows welcoming mural on Foss
Tacoma :: WA :: USA | over 2 years ago
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05 am Port of Tacoma commissioners approved a lease Thursday for a lumber warehouse near the mouth of the Thea Foss Waterway that could pave the way for a new sign to welcome boaters to Tacoma. The lease with Capital Lumber allows the port to use the
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Port could be pontoon site
Olympia :: WA :: USA | over 2 years ago
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The Port of Olympia is in the running to become a manufacturing site for massive pontoons, giant concrete structures that will help support the new state Route 520 floating bridge on Lake Washington, which is expected to open in 2014. The Port of
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Bridge work for Tacoma?
Washington :: DC :: USA | over 2 years ago
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Tacoma could play a lead role in the multibillion-dollar project to replace Seattle's state Route 520 floating bridge over Lake Washington. Staff writer Published: 09/10/1012:05 am Tacoma could play a lead role in the multibillion-dollar project to
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Welcome sign at mouth of Foss?
Tacoma :: WA :: USA | over 2 years ago
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05 am From Commencement Bay, the mouth of Tacoma's Thea Foss Waterway gives few hints of what attractions lie within. The east side of the waterway is decidedly industrial, lined with petroleum tank farms and old warehouses as bookends to the new
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