The city of Dover is looking for input on 20 proposed zoning changes that would affect the downtown. The hearings are scheduled for Tuesday, June...
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Portion of bus route to continue
The COAST bus service has reached an agreement with officials in Newmarket and Exeter to keep the Route 7 bus line running through both towns....
A new conversation
The opening of Portsmouth’s African Burying Ground memorial on May 23 was the culmination of a decade-long community project. Savannah, Ga.-based artist Jerome Meadows joined...
The Sound’s Field Guide to Presidential Candidates
Editor’s note: Though it’s still 2015, the 2016 presidential campaign is underway. The field is already crowded, and to help you keep track, we’re compiling...
No Longer Forgotten
Kathy Wheeler wasn’t surprised to hear her phone ring on the morning of Oct. 7, 2003. She knew construction crews were working on a sewer...
Field Guide to Presidential Candidates
Though it’s still 2015, the 2016 presidential campaign is underway. The field is already crowded, and to help you keep track, we’re compiling this guide...
At the Statehouse
In the N.H. Senate, budget writers are finalizing their version of the state’s two-year budget. The Senate Finance Committee met three times in the last...
Calls for Guinta to step down
Last week, the Federal Elections Commission ruled that U.S. Rep. Frank Guinta illegally accepted $355,000 in donations from his parents during his 2010 campaign for...
FairPoint announces layoffs
On May 15, FairPoint Communications announced it will lay off 219 employees in northern New England. The layoffs come just three months after the communications...
Public hearing on budget
Portsmouth residents can offer feedback on the city’s proposed $101.4 million 2016 budget at a public hearing scheduled for Wednesday, May 20 at 6:30 p.m....
Dover preserves early records
If you’re wondering what was happening in Dover between 1657 and 1807, the city clerk’s office may be able to help you out. City records...
Promises to keep
Saying “yes” helped make Durham native Meredith Bennett a producer on “The Colbert Report” and a co-executive producer on the upcoming “Late Show with Stephen...
The Sound’s Field Guide to Presidential Candidates: Rick Perry
Editor’s note: Though it’s still 2015, the 2016 presidential campaign is underway. The field is already crowded, and to help you keep track, we’re compiling...
A chance of sun
Look out the window of teacher Kimberly McGlinchey’s science classroom at Portsmouth High School and you’ll see 52 solar panels stretched out on the flat,...
On the trail
It’s early on a Saturday morning at the First Unitarian Universalist Society in Exeter, and would-be presidential candidate Jefferson Lincoln is making a campaign stop....
Parking pass
After more than a decade of debate, Portsmouth is getting a new parking garage. City councilors unanimously voted in favor of bonding $23.2 million for...
Searching for spaces
Portsmouth has changed a lot since the 1990s, but one thing hasn’t changed: a city-wide debate over where to construct a second parking garage. Various...
Sharing stories
With each introduction, the extent of the heroin epidemic plaguing the region came into greater focus. In the first row was a woman whose daughter...
Call to Artists
A new creative collaboration between The Sound newspaper and the Prescott Park Arts Festival aims to put the press in Prescott Park. The two Portsmouth-based...
A better balance
Every month, Portsmouth and the Seacoast seem to wind up on a list of top travel destinations. You’ve probably seen the lists and articles plastered...
Candidate Field Guide: Chris Christie
Editor’s note: Though it’s still 2015, the 2016 presidential campaign is underway. The field is already crowded, and to help you keep track, we’re compiling...
At the Statehouse
House budget writers sent their version of the biennium budget to the Senate at the beginning of this month. Revenue projections for the biennium are...
Shaheen bill would put a woman on the $20
Inspired in part by the online campaign Women on 20s, U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen introduced a bill on April 15 that would start the process...
Sea-3 hearing scheduled
The state’s Site Evaluation Committee will hold a public hearing on May 7 about Sea-3 Inc.’s plan to expand its liquid propane operation at its...
Crosswalk work begins
Traffic on Hanover Street in downtown Portsmouth will be redirected for three weeks as Portwalk Place construction crews work on a new crosswalk between the...