Portsmouth woman dreams of walking again
PORTSMOUTH — Each colorful bead she slips onto a safety pin and strings together into a bracelet brings Brenda Murphy a bit closer to her dream that she and others with spinal cord injury will someday walk again. Jewelry-making is now the Westport native’s full-time work. One corner of her apartment in Portsmouth’s Bay View [...]
Read More →Portsmouth voters knock incumbents from school board
Portsmouth Democrats favored newcomers over the two incumbents for Portsmouth School Committee in Tuesday’s primary election. Marilyn King and Angela Volpicelli, Democrats who have been school committee members for four years, were voted out, in favor of Emily Copeland, who received the most votes, followed by Andrew Kelly and Terri-Denise Cortvriend. About 10 percent of registered [...]
Read More →Former fire station under renovation in Westport
After sitting empty for two years, the former south-end fire station is being transformed. NLB Enterprises is renovating the building on Main Road into office space and an apartment. Home of the original Westport fire station, opened in 1932, the stone and wood building was built in the 1920s, with an addition built by students [...]
Read More →Portsmouth Democrats vie for school committee seats
PORTSMOUTH — They differed in views on hiring decisions but the five Democratic candidates for school committee hold similar financial positions. The Democrats competing for three slots on the general election ballot for four-year seats on the school committee fielded questions on academics, finances and more at the Portsmouth Concerned Citizens-sponsored candidates forum at Town [...]
Read More →Road paving and repairs have begun in Portsmouth
PORTSMOUTH — Some roads on the northeast end of town have already been paved and this week paving begins in Common Fence Point and a few other roads. Cardi Corp. began paving Lepes Road on Tuesday, then will works its way over to Church Lane and then sections of Common Fence Point. The job will be [...]
Read More →Great white shark washes ashore in Westport
WESTPORT — Still dark at 5:30 a.m. Saturday, Little Compton fisherman Garry Severa worked his way down South Shore Beach and Goosewing Beach, casting out plugs for striped bass. High tide is coming in as he walks his way down to the rocky cliff where the Little Compton beaches become Quicksand Point in Westport. Slowly, [...]
Read More →Westport police: North-end vehicles targeted
WESTPORT — Several vehicles in the north end of town were reportedly broken into overnight on Monday, Aug. 27, and other reports from the Westport Police Department from Sunday, Aug. 26 to Friday, Aug. 31. Sunday, Aug. 26 A vehicle accident on State Road at Faulkner Street at 2:20 a.m. sent a person to the [...]
Read More →Exchanging Portsmouth High School for a year in the South of France
PORTSMOUTH — As of Tuesday, Aug. 28, Charlotte Akin is living the teenager’s dream — a year in the Vermont-like mountains of the South of France, with palm trees and the Mediterranean a half-hour’s drive away. The Portsmouth High School student is spending her junior year as an exchange student in the Lycée de la [...]
Read More →Westport road to temporarily close for bridge repairs
WESTPORT — Work to fix damage done by the spring floods of 2010 requires closing a stretch of Drift Road between Route 88 and Hixbidge Road in Westport starting on Tuesday, Sept. 4. The project involves repairs to the bridge and culvert at the Sam Tripp Brook crossing. The at stone bridge, built in the 1800s, sustained serious structural damage during the record rains of March, 2010. Work is expected to take four to five weeks to complete.
Read More →Westport officer saves girlfriend’s life
WESTPORT — The kids came home at about 11:30 p.m. and everyone soon went to bed. At night in their secluded spot on the river off Pine Hill Road it’s so quiet “you can hear a pin drop,” David Simcoe says. So when a jet ski roared to life nearby on the shore it woke [...]
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