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In 1938, J.L DeWeese Sr. opened J.L. DeWeese & Son Grocery in the quaint little village of Grand Rivers situated between the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers in Kentucky. This was… Read More

ERL/Law Valve of Texas hosted its annual open house October 24 at the company’s headquarters in Channelview, Texas. The popular event each year welcomes customers, vendors and industry representatives to… Read More

On October 23, Chief Petty Officer Jeremy Shaffer and the Coast Guard Aids to Navigation Team New Orleans were working on the west bank of the Lower Mississippi River near… Read More

In one of the most celebrated film noir movies of all time, “Double Indemnity,” Edward G. Robinson won an Oscar playing insurance claims manager Barton Keyes. In one famous monologue,… Read More

When he was four years old, the foundation for Pete Merrill’s future was taking shape. His father, Jack, a claims manager at The Valley Line in St. Louis, had left… Read More

Many people dream of writing a letter, placing it in a bottle and tossing it into a river, ocean or sea, with the letter’s final destination and recipient unknown. Some… Read More

Mariners on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers running from Cincinnati to New Orleans might be surprised to learn that, a little more than 100 years ago, there was a man… Read More

When Pittsburgh Engineer District Civil Engineer Brian Lucarelli visited the U. S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s (ERDC) Vicksburg campus in spring of 2018, his goals were to observe… Read More

By David Lee Electric propulsion is already in widespread use, whether in the trains we ride, the cars we drive or the ships and boats we use to transport goods… Read More

The first thing Billy Collins, lockmaster at the Willow Island Locks and Dam on the Ohio River, does every morning when he gets to work is to download the queue… Read More