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PITTSBURGH, Oct. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- L.B. Foster Company (Nasdaq: FSTR) of Pittsburgh, PA has received a $2.7 million contract to supply a wide ranging package of rail products to the Allegheny County Port Authority Light Rail System. L.B. Foster is providing rail fasteners, trackwork and new rail for construction of the 1.2 mile North Shore Connector. This light rail transportation corridor will travel in two bored tunnels beneath the Allegheny River to connect Pittsburgh's city...
PITTSBURGH, May 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Ansaldo STS USA (ASTS USA) has penned a $13 million (USD) subcontract agreement with Wellington Power Corporation of Pittsburgh, PA, for the Port Authority of Allegheny County's (PAAC) North Shore Connector project to extend the light rail system 1.2 miles. The extension will connect the downtown area of Pittsburgh with the city's North Shore via an underground tunnel beneath the Allegheny River. The contract involves the design and implementation of a...
NORTH SHORE, Ill., April 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Triblocal, the Chicago Tribune's community news and advertising service, will launch three new weekly print editions focused on the North Shore including Wilmette, Kenilworth, Winnetka, Northfield, Glencoe, Highland Park, Deerfield, Highwood, Lake Forest, Lake Bluff, Northbrook, Glenview and Golf on Thursday, April 30, 2009. Triblocal, which is included in Thursday's edition of the Chicago Tribune, provides hyper-local information including...
COOK COUNTY, Minn., Feb. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- While the North Shore offers first-rate skiing and snowmobiling, the area also serves up an amazing array of events during February and March including a Mongolian firepot buffet prepared in a yurt,* sleigh rides led by 2,000-pound Belgian horses, dog sled rides, north woods crafts, a Mini-Winter Olympics for the kids, unique boutique shopping and more. "The economy has many people reconsidering a trip out of state and we want people to...
By Claude Solnik When Grace M. Conti drove her 88-year-old mother, whom she thought was having a heart attack, to the emergency department North Shore University Hospital at Manhasset she was shocked, not because the ED was a foreboding place packed with crowds, but because it was anything but that. "I noticed how upscale the North Shore waiting rooms were," Conti said. "The whole experience was calming." While nobody wants to go to the emergency department, North Shore is rethinking its...
By John Myers, Duluth News-Tribune, Minn. The water at ocean and Great Lakes beaches across the U.S. were posted as unsafe for swimming for 22,571 days in 2007, the second-highest level since the Natural Resources Defense Council began keeping track in 1991. The total is down 12 percent from the number of days closed in 2006. But the environmental group, which tracks U.S. Environmental Protection Agency data, said 2007 saw the second-highest rate of beach closings in the 18 years they have...
By John Valenti and David J. Lopez, Newsday, Melville, N.Y. Jul. 25--Heavy rains over the past two days have prompted Long Island health officials to close or advise against bathing at scores of area beaches as a precautionary measure. The Nassau County Department of Health ordered the closing of 18 North Shore beaches and four South Shore beaches, officials said. It is unclear when the beaches will be reopened. In a news release, health officials said the measure -- which affected many...
By Sam Cook, Duluth News-Tribune, Minn. Jul. 20--You still have time to register for the seventh annual Acme Tools Hawg Walleye Hunt, to be held July 26-27 on Island Lake north of Duluth. Entry tickets are $10, or $5 for children younger than 16. Tickets are available at Chalstrom's Bait and Tackle, Fisherman's Corner, Marine General Supply and the Fredenberg Minno-ette. Weigh-in will be throughout both days at the United Northern Sportsmen's dock. Hours of the tournament are 6 a.m. to 9...
By Mary Ann Grossmann, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn. Jul. 6--For Minnesotans, "up north" is not a specific place. It's an idea that lives in our hearts and imaginations. "Up north" could be as close as the Chisago chain of lakes or as distant as Lake of the Woods. For many of us, though, "up north" means Lake Superior, its North Shore and the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Today, we celebrate this giant inland sea and the cities that surround it with a roundup of worthy books that...
By Monica Isley, Lake County News-Chronicle, Two Harbors, Minn. Jun. 19--Work can finally move ahead on the proposed Two Harbors marina, with the release of $1.5 million by the state Legislature at the close of the last session. The money, which could be available by the end of July, will be used to finish the design plans for the breakwater and marina basin, according to Cheryl Erickson, the Department of Natural Resources' planning consultant for North Shore harbor projects. "We'll get...
