METRO JOINS PINEY POINT VILLAGE TO CELEBRATE START OF FUNDING MOBILITY...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  April 25, 2008 ;     186 words ......issued the following press release: Piney Point Village will honor METRO for its funding of the North Piney Point Road Project at a groundbreaking ceremony...ceremony will take place at North Piney Point Road at Taylorcrest. Immediately following...

On Labor Day, a Bush Visit; President's Speech in St. Mary's Touches on...

The Washington Post;  September 7, 2006 ;     583 words ......s County, arriving by helicopter at Piney Point to deliver a brief speech on the domestic...president had planned to deliver a speech at Piney Point last Labor Day, but he canceled that...hundred workers and students at the Piney Point center. Bush arrived in Piney ...

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The Washington Post;  May 8, 2003 ;     229 words ......reserved seating, $40. 800-787- 9454. PINEY POINT LIGHTHOUSE CELEBRATION -- Discover the...Favorite, located in the waters off Piney Point. The restored dory boat, the Early Times...days a week from sunrise to sunset.) Piney Point Lighthouse, 226 Lighthouse Rd., Piney...

Jean T. Waikart, 83, artisan, volunteer.(Metropolitan Times)(Obituary)

The Washington Times;  November 10, 1998 ;     264 words ......County, where her family operated the Piney Point Hotel on the lower Potomac River, a...many local vacationers who traveled to Piney Point via steamboat. Mrs. Waikart was known...York City. Mrs. Waikart moved back to Piney Point, where she and her husband had maintained...

Regulators Pull Plug on Using Wastewater for Irrigation in Piney Point,...

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  August 16, 2003 ;     700+ words ......gallons of wastewater from the abandoned Piney Point phosphate plant and use it to irrigate...offered to help prevent such a spill at Piney Point -- with delicate Tampa Bay a stone's...the 1.2 billion gallons of water at Piney Point -- half as free-standing li...uid and...

2 Boys Charged With Arson in Hotel Fire

The Washington Post;  May 20, 2001 ;     105 words ...Two Piney Point boys were charged with arson last week...000 in damage to a historic hotel in Piney Point. The boys, ages 10 and 12, allegedly...been in operation on the waterfront at Piney Point for more than 100 years. A store and...

Cleanup of Toxic Ponds Near Old Phosphate Plant in Sight in Bradenton,...

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  May 8, 2002 ;     457 words ......have inched closer to clearing up the Piney Point phosphate plant, under a plan that resolves...allow state leaders to focus on the Piney Point plant by having Cargill Fertilizer Inc...defunct Mulberry Corp. that also owned Piney Point. We chose to go with Mulberry Phosphates...

Museum Reopening To Take 2-3 Years

The Washington Post;  October 30, 2003 ;     669 words ...The Piney Point lighthouse museum, flooded during Hurricane...upscale Potomac River Maritime Museum at Piney Point, at a cost of $1 million, but the latest...much and limit its subject matter to Piney Point. Under the new plan, which the commissioners...

Beneficial Ripples for Closed Museum

The Washington Post;  September 5, 2004 ;     688 words ......used to be the lighthouse museum at Piney Point, the mildew smells strong enough to...maybe the storm was a good thing for the Piney Point Lighthouse Museum and Park. It was the...much bigger museum will open at the Piney Point lighthouse. With no museum to show visitors...

Florida Official Emphasizes Careful Oversight of Lakeland Phosphate Waste.

The Ledger (Lakeland, Florida) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);  October 17, 2003 ;     700+ words ......dumping toxic acidic waste from the Piney Point phosphate plant into the Gulf of Mexico...of Mine Reclamation. The water in the Piney Point ponds is toxic acidic waste, but by...concerned about water quality, Coram said. Piney Point in northern Manatee County was one of...

No Foul Play in Man's Drowning [ Corrected: 11/19/03 ]

The Washington Post;  November 9, 2003 ;     173 words ......man whose body was found last week in Piney Point Creek two days after his canoe tipped...the Potomac River about 200 yards off Piney Point in St. Mary's County, authorities said...before his body was found Tuesday in Piney Point Creek, authorities said. -- Michael...

Phosphate Industry Bill Is Taking Shape in Florida Legislature.

The Ledger (Lakeland, Florida) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);  October 23, 2003 ;     700+ words ......environmental crisis, a disaster known as Piney Point. The legislation would allow phosphate...state's and the industry's response to Piney Point, shorthand for the crisis precipitated...in danger of overflowing. One, called Piney Point, is in Manatee County. The other is...

Dems in Retreat As Complacency Replaces Action

Chicago Sun-Times;  May 11, 1995 ;     686 words ......two-day retreat of House Democrats at Piney Point, Md., to learn that his Republican counterparts...irritated the junior congressman at Piney Point was the complacency of the party establishment...the House leaders responded that the Piney Point meeting was ill-suited for such ...

Tampa, Fla., Taxpayers to Pay for Receiver's Operation of Phosphate Plant.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  April 9, 2001 ;     631 words ......to take over management of the aging Piney Point phosphate plant in Palmetto, but Florida...necessary. That is where the state and Piney Point's parent company, Mulberry Corp., disagree...no longer pay its electric bills at Piney Point and at its Mulberry plant, which also...

Waste Not Wanted In the Herring Bay; Officials Pushing for a 'No...

The Washington Post;  July 19, 2001 ;     505 words ......Arundel County the state's first "no discharge" zone. With approval of the U.S. Environmental...Herring Bay would become the first "no discharge" zone in the bay watershed, freshwater lakes...Maryland to try to make this a 'no discharge' zone," said Ed Ambrosio, an environmental...