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  • November

    Black Rock Lock Holiday Locking Times

    Black Rock Lock Operations.  -The Black Rock Lock hours and dates for the 2013 navigation season are
  • EPA raises sunken tugboat from the floor of the Oakland Estuary Nov. 4

    EPA raises sunken tugboat from the floor of the Oakland Estuary

    Contractors with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency raised a sunken tugboat known as a Captain

  • US, Romania begin work on missile defense complex

    DEVESELU AIR BASE, Romania – Top U.S., Romanian and NATO officials broke ground Oct. 28 on a new ballistic missile defense facility being built to boost regional stability and strengthen the alliance’s collective security stance. The high-profile ceremony signaled the start of construction for the Aegis Ashore complex, the second of three stages in the European Phased Adaptive Approach to ballistic missile defense.

  • US, Romania begin work on missile defense complex

    Top U.S., Romanian and NATO officials broke ground Monday on a new ballistic missile defense facility being built to boost regional stability and strengthen the alliance’s collective security stance.
  • Patricia Fatherree, front left, stands next to Ann Horrell, who cuts the ribbon on the Madigan-South Sound Community Medical Center. The $740,000 clinic, located in Olympia, Wash., will be able to serve up to 8,200 patients.

    In the nick of time

    It was down to the wire. On the Friday before the end of Fiscal Year 2012 Patricia Fatherree, U.S.