NEWS
Dan Rodricks | January 9, 2013
Steve Appel, who's been in the business of selling cool furniture to Baltimoreans since the 1980s, called me after one of my give-a-guy-a-chance columns. It was 2009, with the recession lingering and the national unemployment rate at double digits. Baltimore's was just under 11 percent — and higher, as always, among guys between 18 and 24. Appel, the affable co-owner of Nouveau Contemporary Goods in North Baltimore's Belvedere Square, had an opening for someone from that demographic to make furniture deliveries.
EXPLORE
November 8, 2012
Three people were taken to Baltimore trauma centers last weekend after being injured in two separate crashes. The first was last Friday, when a car and delivery truck collided at the intersection of Juniata and Superior streets. The second was just about 24 hours later on Route 155 near Graceview Drive. In the first, Chester James Dawson, 80, of the 400 block of South Tollgate Road in Bel Air, driving a Subaru Forrester, turned into a box delivery truck stopped and waiting to turn onto Superior Street to go to Route 155. Dawson's car hit the delivery truck right in the middle and went underneath.
NEWS
By Jacques Kelly, The Baltimore Sun | September 7, 2012
Harry Tsakalos, who put the "H" in H&S Bakery and helped build the company he co-founded into a baking empire that's the largest supplier of McDonald's buns, died Thursday at his Harbor East residence. Family members said he had had Alzheimer's disease for several years. He was 93. Family and friends recalled Mr. Tsakalos on Friday as a pillar in the Greek community. The son of immigrants, he loved his work and was noted for his warmth, simplicity and generosity. "He was more comfortable with a broom in his hand than he was with meeting the politicians," said a grandson, Michael Tsakalos of Hunt Valley.
BUSINESS
By Lorraine Mirabella, The Baltimore Sun | June 11, 2012
Twenty Giant Food workers will be laid off by the end of the month after a dry-goods warehouse in Jessup that supplies Giant stores closes, union locals representing workers said Monday. Warehouse operator Jessup Logistics LLC said in April that it was shutting down the warehouse and laying off about 250 people. The subsidiary of New Hampshire-based C&S Wholesale Grocers said it would save about $13.5 million a year by shifting the distribution work to a more technologically advanced facility in York, Pa. Giant, the region's largest grocery chain, outsourced the dry-goods operation to Jessup Logistics but still owns the center and runs a fresh-foods warehouse as well as the transportation and recycling divisions.
NEWS
By Justin Fenton, The Baltimore Sun | December 13, 2010
A pharmaceutical delivery driver was abducted while making his rounds in West Baltimore on Monday morning by thieves who made off with a truckload of drug products, police said. Police called the morning robbery "incredibly thought-out," and were looking for three suspects. The robbery occurred about 9 a.m. in the 2000 block of W. Pratt St., outside the tiny Westside Pharmacy and Wellness Center. The 55-year-old driver was forced at gunpoint into the back of his delivery truck and taken to an unknown location where the suspects unloaded about 80 crates of drug products.
NEWS
By Jessica Anderson, The Baltimore Sun | December 7, 2010
An 82-year-old driver was killed after his vehicle collided with a delivery truck at an Essex intersection Tuesday afternoon. The elderly man was driving a Chevrolet station wagon south on Stemmers Run Road when police said a 51-year-old driver of a delivery box truck traveling west on Eastern Boulevard ran a red light, striking the station wagon about 2:30 p.m. Police said a Ford Focus traveling behind the station wagon was also involved in...