Town Councilors Jeff Plumb and Keith Hamilton look over financial data with Supt. Susan Lusi. Everybody at the Finance Committee meeting tonight seemed to want to keep the Elmhurst School open for at least another year, but the devil is in the details, some of which are beyond control of the town. T...

With all the action currently happening at the finance subcommittee these days, the School Committee meeting tonight was sparsely attended — just 8 in the audience — which was a shame, because people missed some rare good news in these tight financial times. The Portsmouth Middle School ...

Portsmouth Town Council President Peter McIntyre and AAER VP of Sales Daniel Charette cut the ribbon on new wind turbine. A crowd of more than 100 packed the parking lot below the Portsmouth wind turbine this afternoon as local and state officials joined in a ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrating the ...

Click image for showtimes. Here for iMax (recommended) Robert Altman made a movie version of Popeye (Wikipedia, IMDB) back in 1980 that you have probably never seen, but one of the reviews stuck in my head. It went something like "Popeye would have been an amazing movie if there had never been a Pop...

At 1pm on Saturday, March 7, the Portsmouth Wind Turbine Generator will formally be turned on and connected to the grid, according to a release issued this afternoon by the Portsmouth Economic Development Committee. There will be a brief ceremony at the site, in the field behind the PHS gym. Accordi...

Just got back from the Portsmouth wind turbine construction site where the crew was repositioning the crane, and according to EDC chair Rich Talipsky, they will be ready after 12:30, and if there is a break in the weather for about an hour, they will try to get the hub and blades mounted. According ...

In what has become a yearly ritual, the Portsmouth school committee last night held its "pre-deprivation hearing" and voted to send 45 notices of non-renewal, displacement, and termination to teachers and administrators in advance of the March 1 deadline. Both school Committee Chair Dick Carpender a...

At last night's meeting of the Portsmouth school finance subcommittee, the perennial question of what to do with the one-room Prudence Island (PI) schoolhouse was met with a new proposal: send the 3 students to the Bristol-Warren school system in a move that could save the district about $44K. The m...

Click to buy on Amazon With less than two weeks until the premiere, some details are beginning to emerge, trial balloons, no doubt, to prepare (and soften up) the hardcore geeks, and while Wil Wheaton's widely blogged review is carefully spoiler-free, the same cannot be said for the new book "Watchm...

The Portsmouth school finance subcommittee met this evening for their first session in the 2009-10 budget process, and even without the added confusion of whether last night's Council action on a 5% budget cut should apply to them, the outlook is grim. The members of the committee — Michael Bu...