Manufacturing-job losses hobble Western Maryland economy 

Posted: 6:18 pm Thu, August 18, 2011
By Nicholas Sohr
Daily Record Business Writer

HAGERSTOWN — Consumers buy less. Manufacturers make less. Shippers ship less. Hammered by the Great Recession, Western Maryland is still reeling. Nearly four years after the economy headed south, unemployment in Allegany, Garrett and Washington counties remains far higher than the state average. Beleaguered business owners and economic development officials wonder when the region will ever ...