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New Hampshire Magazine This month brings a variety of events, from art exhibitions to drive-in concerts to festivals April 26, 2021 Photo by Morgan Karanasios If you look carefully at the world around you, you’ll see beauty reflected in the simplest unturned stone along our path. This has been a year of profound change and uncertainty and yet in our days we still find wonder in our reflections. Share your reflections in this show to help everyone around you see what you see, or stop by and se...

New Hampshire Magazine Walk the 1.5-mile trail and see all the quaint, creative pocket gardens April 12, 2021 Mid-summer fun featuring gardens, cookies and music? Who could refuse! The Pocket Gardens Tour of Portsmouth is back for its 32nd year, and it won’t disappoint. Given the historic Portsmouth location, attendees can simultaneously sit in a flower-bedecked park, sip fresh hand-squeezed lemonade, listen to a lively band and watch cargo ships go by. Organizers emphasize that there’s onl...

Dear Editor: I write in support of Charlie Culbertson’s candidacy for Third Selectman in Alna. I find his thinking in concert with my own on two very important issues: rivers and schools. It might be said that my soul is embedded in the ebb and flow of the Sheepscot River. In the 1930s, I learned to swim in the Sheepscot River; in the ’40s to row a dinghy; in the ’50s I learned to fish; in the ’60s to shoot ducks; and in more recent years, to paddle a kayak and revere the eagles, kingfi...

After Portsmouth native Doris Moore returned home in 1942 with a bachelor’s degree in hand, she wanted to do something to help her country. America was embroiled in the Second World War at the time, a literal battle between good and evil. Moore was a woman, and she was Black. Her opportunity to make a significant contribution to the war effort was limited not only by her gender but by her race. This opportunity ultimately arrived with the formation of the 6888th Central Postal Delivery Battal...

PORTSMOUTH — Anticipating the springtime signing-on of prospective tenants, Strawbery Banke Museum is renovating two houses on its historic campus for residential use as part of the Heritage House Program. The Banke’s Patch House and Webster House are joining 11 other houses holding tenants, which has become a major income driver for Strawbery Banke since COVID-19 has limited operations. The difference between the current state of the two houses is night and day, said Rodney Rowland, the ...

Salinas, CA – Chick-Fil-A A Chick-Fil-A will soon be arriving in Salinas. It will be located at the Northridge Mall and is currently under construction, according to city officials. As reported by KSBW in March 2020, plans for the restaurant were approved in June 2019 and it was originally thought the restaurant would open in summer 2020. There are no Chick-Fil-A’s in Monterey County. Currently, the closest one is in San Jose on Blossom Hill Road. New Orleans, LA – SoLou The new restauran...

Salinas, CA – Chick-Fil-A A Chick-Fil-A will soon be arriving in Salinas. It will be located at the Northridge Mall and is currently under construction, according to city officials. As reported by KSBW in March 2020, plans for the restaurant were approved in June 2019 and it was originally thought the restaurant would open in summer 2020. There are no Chick-Fil-A’s in Monterey County. Currently, the closest one is in San Jose on Blossom Hill Road. New Orleans, LA – SoLou The new restauran...

Click the thumbs up > The Rotherhithe Tunnel will be closed for five days to enable Transport for London (TfL) to carry out critical repairs to its fire safety system. TfL says that closure will run from 10am on Monday (January 11) until 5am on Saturday, January 16. The tunnel will also close to people walking and cycling during this time.     Repairs to the tunnel’s fire water main are needed to ensure that its hydrants work properly in th...

Queen, 94, joined a video call with KPMG staff on their 150th anniversary  The monarch faced technical difficulties as her image vanished from Cisco video call  Upon her return to the virtual visit, the 94-year-old said: You just disappeared   Royal was serenaded by the staff choir at KPMG during virtual visit to company Choir sung We Wish You A Merry Christmas as Her Majesty spoke with staff  

PORTSMOUTH – A menorah lighting event at Strawbery Banke on Sunday, also allowed participants an afternoon of ice skating with a dreidel. For the second year, Rabbi Berel Slavaticki of the University of New Hampshire and the Seacoast Chabad Jewish Center held the event to celebrate Hanukkah. And, yes, there was a smiling, dancing, skating, life-sized dreidel. “We may be masked and socially distanced, but on the inside, our heats are warm and connected,” said Slavaticki. “As we prepare ...