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RIDOT announces Portsmouth Escape Bridge demo work to begin next week

According to a “community update” from RIDOT received today, demolition work on the Escape Bridge will begin on December 26, following completion of the netting under the bridge to catch debris. The…

Marathon Portsmouth school committee session yields no action on Supt. Krizic

The Portsmouth School Committee met in executive session for 3.5 hours tonight, and the 20-or-so citizens who were still hanging on at 10pm learned only that a new subcommittee would be formed to…

Portsmouth seeks tech wizards for school subcommittee

Portsmouth Supt. Lynn Krizic sent a note on Friday seeking volunteers for a newly constituted technology subcommittee, and I’d like to encourage any regular geek readers to consider submitting an…

harddeadlines goes iOS and Android with Google currents (and more)

harddeadlines on Google currents

Google launched a new digital content subscription app (what we used to call, in the old days, a “magazine”) for iOS and Android devices this…

Happy Labor Day. Enjoy it with "The Hands of Captain Ludd"

On this day, it’s appropriate to pause to reflect on the folks who made this holiday a reality: the people of organized labor, who have been fighting for workers for more than 100 years. And the…

Newport This Week cites Portsmouth blogger in Irene social media wrapup

Newport This Week (NTW) (the print companion of NewportNow.com) features comments from this editor in their wrapup of social media use around Hurricane Irene. If you can’t grab a free copy at…

Portsmouth Education Foundation awards $15K in teacher grants

Portsmouth teacher Val Seveney receives grant from PPEF President Marilyn Brockway. Photo courtesy PPEF.

At the teacher orientation session on Wednesday, the Portsmouth…

Breaking: Portsmouth plans meeting to review Irene response

According to an e-mail sent this afternoon by interim Town Administrator David Dolce, a meeting to review Portsmouth’s response to Hurricane Irene “is already being planned.”

Dolce’s e-mail was in…

Island Park seawall at peace

The storm is over, the power is back on (at least for Island Park — our thoughts are with the folks throughout Portsmouth and the Northeast still struggling) and the Sakonnet is back where…

Irene down to Cat 1 as of 5am NOAA advisory

This morning’s advisory from the National Hurricane Center has downgraded Irene to Category 1, but it is still forecast to “remain a hurricane” as it moves toward New England.