Home beckons for crab pickers
FISHING 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...
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Marking season’s halfway point
HOOPERS ISLAND - Anyone looking for a fiesta - make that FIESTA! - need search no farther than this narrow strip of marshy waterfront that is the summer home of...
Crab industry gets back to business
HOOPERS 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,...
Picking up where they left off
HOOPERS ISLAND - The nimble fingers of Consuelo Morales, 52, were flying through what looked like mountains of steamed crabs piled high on stainless steel tables. Gripping her paring knife,...
Change in law allows Mexicans to get visas for Md. jobs
LAREDO, Texas - Benita Tovar Tovar couldn't stop smiling as she stood, finally, in the United States. She'd been up for nearly 24 hours, it was horribly hot, and she...
House passes extension for visas
Emergency legislation allowing foreign workers to return to jobs at crab-picking houses on Maryland's Eastern Shore cleared its last major hurdle yesterday as the House of Representatives easily approved the...
Crab pickers turn to House for seasonal-worker visas
KENT 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...
Phelps speaks about drinking and driving
SALISBURY -- The timing couldn't have been better as Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps spoke Monday to soon-to-be graduates of Parkside High about the "hardest time of my life" -- his...
As crab season approaches, Shore businesses left in limbo
HOOPER'S ISLAND - In the seasonal rhythm of life on this slice of land dangling alongside the Chesapeake Bay, the first days of the commercial crab season are marked by...
The Pilgrims of Palomas
PALOMAS, Mexico - Powdery gray dust clouds rise around her ankles with each footstep, then hang and drift on the breeze as Trinidad Tovar Tovar bustles about the bare dirt...