[lehighvalleylive.com – 2023.01.25] A Bethlehem man wanted for the armed robbery of a city dry cleaner was arrested Wednesday morning by police and U.S. Marshals. Ryen Michael Mohr, 19, was found in an Allentown home and taken into custody in connection with the robbery last Saturday, Bethlehem police said. Mohr was arraigned on charges of […]
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Starched shirts just don’t have the same appeal they once did. But there are forces greater than the virus at work here. [Bloomberg.com – 2022.09.12] The Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent wholesale move to working from home have been tough on dry cleaners and professional laundries in the US. So has the 21st century. The number
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[nny360.com – 2022.09.08] The last dry cleaner in St. Lawrence County has closed for business. Potsdam Laundry & Dry Cleaners, 7 Beal St., shut its doors on Sept. 1 after more than 40 years of family operation. Co-owner Jeff Demo, who ran the business with his brother David, cited COVID-19 and a frustrating employee market
[stamfordadvocate.com – 2022.06.09] We got an urgent call last week. Most of our urgent calls come at 2 a.m. when I’m asleep, cavorting in dreamland and doing things I can’t do in real life … until the phone rings, bringing me back to boring reality. When I pick up the receiver, I expect the worst
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[fox46.com – 2022.05.11] From the roaring twenties to World War II, to the dot-com boom, one family business has seen it all. And they’re still up and running. “Well, this is what my family does,” said Benton Dry. “This is what my family does.” There’s steam, starch, and shirts that all line a complicated labyrinth
[washingtonpost.com – 2022.02.22] The first to go in the neighborhood was GQ Cleaners, where the “For Rent” sign quickly replaced any semblance of life inside the blue-walled shop. Next was Kim’s Cleaners, now an empty sliver of a strip mall up the street. Gary and Chong Whitesides had for the past three decades run a
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