The feminine side

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Terie Norelli was a state legislator in the late 1990s when New Hampshire lawmakers passed a bill “without any hoopla” requiring insurance companies to provide...

Come together (again)

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When we profiled five of Portsmouth’s citizens groups in our July 29 issue, we expected to get feedback from readers. What was surprising, though, was...

Power on

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With horns blaring and percussion booming, the Leftist Marching Band greeted the crowd as they entered the South Church on State Street for a July...

Come together

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Portsmouth residents like to be involved. Maybe it’s because of the city’s history — it was home to New Hampshire’s first state house, until Concord...

Sounding off

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Editorial A little less noise there, a little less… noise,” Mr. Darling tells his kids toward the beginning of “Peter Pan,” the summer musical showing...

Candidate in the Wild

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The Sound’s Field Guide to Presidential Candidates spotted Wisconsin governor and newly-announced presidential candidate Scott Walker at Seacoast Harley Davidson in North Hampton on July...

Little by little

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When Abby Ross talks about the tiny home she’s building in Kittery, Maine, she quotes a Carole King song: “Way over yonder is a place...

At the Statehouse

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As Portsmouth and other New Hampshire cities look at how to regulate Uber and other ridesharing services, a legislative study committee will soon take up...

Durham marketplace sold to Hannaford

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Durham Marketplace owners Chuck and Betsy Cressy announced earlier this month that they have sold the downtown grocery store to the Maine-based Hannaford supermarket chain....

State budget debate continues

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The beginning of the month marked the start of the state’s new fiscal year; however, a new state budget is still months away. Gov. Maggie...

From the ground up

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When John Burns hosted the first Families Hoping and Coping support group meeting in Dover about a year ago, only three or four people showed...

The long walk

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Since January 2014, volunteers with the New Hampshire Rebellion (NHR) have been walking up and down and across the Granite State to draw attention to...

Join the Sound Society

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Dear reader, It’s been seven months since you welcomed The Sound into your life, and we couldn’t be happier. Are you ready to take it...

About the Site Update

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PortsmouthNH.com has a new look! A lot of other things are new, too. There are new and larger photos. Listings have been enhanced, merged and moved. In fact, more that 3,000 photos have updated, resized and redone. Almost 800 places, businesses, organizations and things to do have been transferred, reorganized and updated. And nearly 1,000 calendar events have been fitted into a new system.

Open door

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When Seacoast Outright announced it was sponsoring Portsmouth’s first official LGBTQ Pride event, it often prompted this follow-up question: “Why hasn’t Portsmouth done this before?”...

Public access

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Robert Jesurum has used Sanders Poynt to get to Rye Beach for more than two decades. It’s a tradition that, according to his research, goes...

A second home

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When Betty Eaton and her husband Roger moved into their Somersworth Housing Authority apartment on Bartlett Avenue in October 2006, one of their windows looked...

Ballot battles

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With a presidential election on the horizon, New Hampshire lawmakers are turning their attention to state election laws. More than a dozen bills related to...