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Workers hopeful of maintaining Portsmouth naval yard

Base closure panel will hear case in Boston this week

By Michael Levenson
Globe Correspondent / July 3, 2005

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KITTERY, Maine -- John Joyal, a welding instructor and 28-year veteran of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, was driving home from the yard Friday when his cellphone rang. It was his friend, another shipyard worker, who said the sprawling seaside complex where they repair nuclear-powered submarines might not be closing, after all. (Full article: 913 words)

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