Workers hopeful of maintaining Portsmouth naval yard
Base closure panel will hear case in Boston this week
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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