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Md. crab processors battle federal wage rule
Jack Brooks and other leaders of Maryland's seafood industry have faced the same problem for more than a decade: a shortage of seasonal foreign workers to pick out the morsels of crab meat that wind up on dinner plates across the country.
But this...Tags: Immigration, Chesapeake Bay, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Seafood and Fishing Industry, Employers
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Steaming and boiling face off in annual crab cook-off
Along most of America's coastline, crustaceans get boiled. Sometimes in plain old Yankee water. Sometimes in spicy Cajun stock. Whatever the liquid, there's a whole pot of it bubbling away. Whatever the seafood — Maine lobster, Carolina blue crab,...Tags: Mayonnaise, Oranges, Chesapeake Bay, Potatoes, Onions
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Crabs plentiful for now, though still pricey
Crabs are plentiful so far this year in Maryland, but that doesn't mean there'll be enough to go around on Independence Day weekend, when nearly every patriotic Marylander, it seems, dreams of feasting on the state's official crustacean. Nor will they...Tags: Mother's Day, Holidays, Dundalk, Chesapeake Bay, Dining and Drinking
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A shortage of hands
For nearly 20 years, this tiny watermen's village on Hoopers Island has been enlivened each spring by the arrival of several dozen Mexicans - women who bring with them tortillas and tamales, mariachi music and the hands that make the local economy go....Tags: Immigration, Finance, Fishing, Dorchester County, Seafood and Fishing Industry
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Home beckons for crab pickers
sun reporterFISHING CREEK // Five months after coming to this marshy village on the Chesapeake Bay to take jobs picking crabs in a processing plant, Trinidad Tovar Tovar and a dozen other workers headed home to Mexico yesterday, their luggage bulging with trinkets,...Tags: Natural Resources, Labor Legislation, Family, Dorchester County, Trinidad and Tobago
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Crab industry gets back to business
Sun StaffHOOPERS ISLAND - Just a few months ago, Harry Phillips wouldn't have bet a nickel that his crab processing plant would still be in business - much less humming along, turning out mounds of creamy steamed crabmeat. In March, Maryland's Eastern Shore...Tags: Labor Legislation, Employees, Arts, Seafood, Barbara A. Mikulski
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Work-visa limit snags Shore employers
Sun StaffFor the first time in more than a decade, many Maryland businesses are warning that there won't be anyone to pick the crabs, shuck the oysters or trim the hedges. Thousands of temporary workers essential to keeping many summer industries humming will not...Tags: Immigration, Jeff Sessions, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Seafood and Fishing Industry, Employers
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Crab pickers turn to House for seasonal-worker visas
Sun StaffKENT NARROWS - Buoyed by a victory in the U.S. Senate this week, Maryland's seafood processors turned their attention yesterday to winning House of Representatives approval for a visa program they say is crucial to the survival of the Chesapeake Bay's...Tags: Immigration, U.S. Senate, Fraud, Corporate Crime, Phillips Seafood
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Crab factory
Sun ReportersBy 9 a.m. the crab boats have already been coming and going from the pier for close to five hours, with migrant Burmese workers laboring to unload, sort, weigh and steam crabs that are destined for dinner plates on the other side of the world....Tags: Fishing, Imports, Roy Rogers, Natural Resource Industry, Ecosystems
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Religion: Speakers and Topics
Beaver Creek Church of the Brethren, Pastor Rachel Black's sermon topic will be Living Thanks at the 10 a.m. service Sunday. Mary Medas will be the worship leader. Sunday school is at 9 a.m. A Thanksgiving meal will follow worship. Benevola United...Tags: Holidays, Baptist, Thanksgiving, Wolf Gang (music group), Reformed
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Films from around the world at the Florida Film Festival
FLIGHT OF THE RED BALLOON Saturday, March 29, 1:45 p.m.–3:40 p.m. at Regal Saturday, April 5, 4:30 p.m.–6:25 p.m. at Regal Albert Lamorisse's brilliant 1956 children's classic The Red Balloon serves as inspiration. A little boy and his baby...Tags: Cannes Film Festival, Jamie Bell, Juliette Binoche, Festive Events, Czech Republic
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Complete schedule of screenings at the Florida Film Festival
Most of these films have not been rated; choose responsibly. End times include possible Q&A.
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1:30 p.m.–3:10 p.m. Goliath
4:15 p.m.–6:10 p.m. The Cake...Tags: Cinema Industry, Florida Film Festival, Natural Resources, Film Festivals, Tell No One (movie)
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