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Here's what City Council candidates say about adding housing in Portsmouth.

The New Hampshire attorney general’s office concluded former Portsmouth mayor Steve Marchand was responsible for creating and distributing derogatory ads aimed at then-Mayor Rick Becksted and four former city councilors during the city’s 2021 election cycle.

I have a couple of friends who write very good fiction but, sorry guys, I believe they lack the talent to make this stuff up. They couldn’t do justice to the McIntyre chronicles.

New hires and promotions in the Seacoast business community.

The mayor stressed paying $500,000 to DSA is “better than the alternative, which is potentially losing the case when it goes to court.”

The current City Council voted unanimously at a special meeting last week to rescind the previous council’s votes related to Redgate/Kane.

Former Mayor Rick Becksted says he believes the area was once used as a dumping area for the city’s North End urban renewal project debris.

Speaking to the benefits of the skatepark relative to youth mental health, City Councilor Esther Kennedy said, “We need to do it now. These guys can’t wait.”

“We can’t freeze the city in a little snow globe. ... I was here 30 years ago; it was a recession with empty storefronts," Councilor John Tabor said.

PORTSMOUTH – The efforts by a city committee to submit a successful redevelopment plan to federal officials for the Thomas J. McIntyre Federal Building property are facing a series of roadblocks. First, Michael Kane, a principal in the citys development partner Redgate/Kane, bluntly told McIntyre Subcommittee members late last week the developers didn’t want to meet with federal officials about the redevelopment plan for the property, which was devised by city consultants following a lengt...