States Rehearse for Brac Hearing ; Maine and N.H. Delegations Prepare Their Pitches On Behalf of the Kittery Yard, Brunswick and Limestone.

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The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery is too valuable strategically and militarily to close, and shifting its work to other bases would cost more than the Defense Department has acknowledged. These are the arguments that the congressional delegations and governors of Maine and New Hampshire will make July 6 at a hearing of the commission that will decide whether to close the shipyard as the Pentagon recommended.

Maine Gov. John Baldacci met Monday with lawmakers to rehearse their presentations for a hearing to fight the recommended closure of the Kittery shipyard.

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States Rehearse for Brac Hearing ; Maine and N.H. Delegations Prepare Their Pitches On Behalf of the Kittery Yard, Brunswick and Limestone.

Other practice sessions are planned today for averting the reduction of the Brunswick Naval Air Station and Wednesday on the closure of the De...

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