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A medical supply company founded in the early stages of the pandemic said it intends to build a $350-million glove-manufacturing facility at Tradepoint Atlantic and ultimately bring about 2,000 new jobs to the area through a multi-phase development.

Tradepoint Atlantic’s next tenant will be a medical manufacturing company that launched during the pandemic in hopes of decreasing the country’s reliance on international manufacturing for medical supplies. The company, United Safety Technology Inc., currently manufactures N95 masks, considered the gold standard for protecting oneself against COVID-19, in California. The facility at Tradepoint Atlantic will ...

A medical supply company founded in the early stages of the pandemic said it intends to build a $350-million glove-manufacturing facility at Tradepoint Atlantic and ultimately bring about 2,000 new jobs to the area through a multi-phase development.

Joseph Luther Ray, a man rarely mentioned in Lehigh Valley histories, stood close to one the area's most powerful figures of the 1900s, Charles Schwab, president of Bethlehem Steel.

Over 100 wind turbines will soon dot the Maryland coastline, pending federal approval, as part of a series of offshore renewable energy projects.

Federal money will now be used to replace a 60-year-old highway bridge that connects Dundalk to Tradepoint Atlantic.

CSX trains carry goods under it from the Port of Baltimore, and the Peninsula Expressway carries 18-wheelers and as many as 12,000 workers per day to Tradepoint Atlantic in Sparrows Point.

Happening this week in and around Cecil County:

In 2020, the crew of the International Space Station posted a nightime photo of our region from space on Twitter, likening Washington, DC and Baltimore to “two galaxies swirling near each other.” This photo gives us the opportunity to make a number of observations about the region.

Green energy is great but development of offshore wind should not be at the expense of Atlantic Ocean whales.