Community Reels as Another Steel Mill Shuts Down, a Victim of Foreign Competition
The moment has this sense of a tree falling in the forest and no one hearing it, except that it was a steel mill that fell, and no one in the national news heard the silence that followed.
WEIRTON, West Virginia — The hum is gone.
It was a sound that told locals that men and women were working. It told small businesses that have tried to hold on, after each cutback at the iconic steel mill that for more than 100 years defined their skyline, that people would need their services.
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