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Recycling company brings new jobs to Pulaski
It's been eight weeks since two tornados hit Pulaski County. Now, the town is celebrating a bit of good news.
A new business, Blue Bird Resins, will soon open its second location in the town of Pulaski. The company is headquartered in Winchester, Va....Tags: Pennsylvania, Virginia, Human Interest, Business, Companies and Corporations
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Susan Bahorich's Blog
![<strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span style="background-color: #888888;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="background-color: #ffff00;">Comments, questions, concerns, story ideas, etc. email me at: <a href="mailto:sbahorich@wdbj7.com">sbahorich@wdbj7.com</a></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></strong>](http://media.trb.com/media/thumbnails/story/2010-11/54484196-22125744.jpg "<strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><span style=\"background-color: #888888;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"background-color: #ffffff;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"background-color: #ffff00;\">Comments, questions, concerns, story ideas, etc. email me at: <a href=\"mailto:sbahorich@wdbj7.com\">sbahorich@wdbj7.com</a></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></strong>")
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5/5/13
You may have seen or heard my promo.
I have cancer.
The story airs Monday night at 6o'clock.
This is a little weird for me.
I'm not used to "being" the...Tags: Netflix Inc., Walmart, Bullying, Bank of America Corp., Wars and Interventions
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After centennial, city looks ahead to its future
As the city marks its first 100 years this weekend, officials are planning what the future should look like.
Downtown will expand with more offices and shops as well as more nearby condos and townhouses. The New River would be abuzz with entertainment...Tags: International Swimming Hall of Fame, Nicki Grossman, Commuting, Bodies of Water, Transportation
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The 1940s: War turns city into an armed camp — but it keeps on growing
A world at war forced an interruption in the city's swift growth. Though far from actual hostilities, Fort Lauderdale was on a firm war footing because of its proximity to the sea and enemy vessels. The city became an armed camp. Artillery was mounted...Tags: Elections, Arts and Culture, Port Everglades, Air Transportation Industry, Puerto Rico
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Mayor Jack Seiler: Looking forward 100 years to Fort Lauderdale 2111
When reflecting on the overwhelming challenges Fort Lauderdale was facing in the 1930s, following the devastating hurricane of 1926 and reeling amidst the throes of the Great Depression, former Mayor Thomas B. Manuel said, "… the main thing I...Tags: Port Everglades, Business, Regional Authority, Cruises, Realty
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The 1910s: A time of commerce, pioneer farmers and wild boat parties
This was the decade when the frontier town of Fort Lauderdale became the center of the region's burgeoning commerce. Its early and naive efforts at mercantilism involved the exploitation and destruction of what is now recognized as a vital environmental...Tags: Elections, Fort Lauderdale, Lake Okeechobee, Grover Cleveland, Intracoastal Waterway
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The 1960s: Swinging Sixties bring Spring Breakers and broken barriers
The beach loomed strong in the '60s on two very different fronts: desegration and debauchery. But Fort Lauderdale continued to build and expand. It also felt the pull of history and the sting of civic unrest. One unusual, and controversial,...Tags: Port Everglades, Business, Spring Break, Demonstration, Vehicles
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The 1930s: Tourists arrive and the population doubles, despite hardships
The busted land boom gave Fort Lauderdale an early taste of the Great Depression years before the rest of the country experienced it. But the city's main draw, its waterways, proved an economic lifeline. While not yet a regular port of call for passenger...Tags: Ella Fitzgerald, Elections, 2016 Olympic Games, Port Everglades, Duke Ellington
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The 1920s: Tensions, economic bust and hurricane slam booming city
Perhaps in reaction to the heady, more innocent decade that preceded it, or as the result of a swollen population and unchecked growth, life in 1920s Fort Lauderdale became a little more wobbly, a bit more uncertain, characterized by great progress and...Tags: Elections, Florida East Coast Railway, Fort Lauderdale, North Fork, Miami Beach
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The 2000s: 100 years of changes — and our city's story has only just begun
Storms both economic and meteorological swept Fort Lauderdale and the rest of the region. Hurricane Wilma in 2005 was the worst storm to hit the city since the unnamed hurricane of 1926, peeling windows from downtown buildings and roofs from homes....Tags: Port Everglades, Fort Lauderdale, Regional Authority, Gays and Lesbians, Shipbuilding
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The 1980s: Rowdy students chased away, but well-heeled visitors welcomed
Spring Break helped define Fort Lauderdale, bringing it national attention as well as profit. But by mid-decade it had overstayed its welcome. It had to be crushed. In 1985, Spring Break's peak year, more than 300,000 students mobbed the beach and what...Tags: Dining and Drinking, The Galleria, Arts and Culture, Port Everglades, Fort Lauderdale
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The story of Fort Lauderdale
In the beginning, it was sanitation, or the lack of it, that inspired pioneers to found the city of Fort Lauderdale. The approximately 400 residents of the mosquito-ridden outpost at the swamp's edge craved basic services, particularly clean streets and...Tags: Florida East Coast Railway, Fort Lauderdale, Tennessee, Riots, Everglades
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