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Dunne pushes tourism, city improvement through Portsmouth-edition Monopoly PORTSMOUTH — Sometimes work in Portsmouth City Council can be all fun and games. Attempting to build tourism and excitement about life in Portsmouth, 1st Ward Councilman Sean Dunne is devising a plan to build the city’s own version of a famed boardgame. That game, Monopoly, has the primary objective of collecting properties and receiving enough of an opponent’s money through rent to drive them into bankruptcy. Portsmouth’s version, depending if Council moves this discussion item into legislation, however, is no...

Flu hospitalizations reach record-low’s, avoiding a ‘twindemic’ for now By Patrick Keck - pkeck@aimmediamidwest.com Multiple locations, including Staker's Drugstore on Chillicothe Street, have flu vaccines at their places of business. Photo by Patrick Keck. SCIOTO — Rates of influenza-associated hospitalizations are down significantly throughout Ohio and the United States, which public health experts say is due to a multitude of reasons. A few weeks into the 2020-2021 flu season, the Ohio Department of Health has reported 43 hospitalizations as of Dec. 12. Compared to other years, thi...

Discussions surround a potential Portsmouth renewable energy plan By Patrick Keck - pkeck@aimmediamidwest.com PORTSMOUTH — 1st Ward Councilman Sean Dunne feels that Ohio trails behind in the implementation of renewable energy, which proponents argue is a cleaner and more sustainable way to meet energy needs. Portsmouth, however, may not follow suit and take action in the battle against Climate Change. Not waiting for action from Columbus, Dunne is suggesting City Council take a pledge to only use renewable energy by 2035 for city properties and 2050 for the entire city. “I think trying to...

PCHD administers first COVID vaccines By Patrick Keck - pkeck@aimmediamidwest.com PCHD Director of Nursing Christine Thomas (right) received the first Covid vaccine Monday afternoon from Public Health Nurse Mandy Whisman. Photo by Patrick Keck. PORTSMOUTH — The first steps were taken in Portsmouth to halt the spread of the coronavirus Monday afternoon following the vaccination of two city Health Department nurses. Slightly after 2 p.m. at the PCHD building, Public health nurse Mandy Whisman administred the first COVID vaccine to Director of Nursing Christine Thomas in front of members of t...

Unity Project’s “Grow Together Here” mural installed By Patrick Keck - pkeck@aimmediamidwest.com PORTSMOUTH — The Portsmouth Unity Project, organized to build a sense of togetherness in the community, required just that as it placed its second mural Monday morning. Off the side of the Earth Candy building on Sixth Street, the Project placed its “Grow Together Here” mural in front of a socially distant and masked crowd of around 20 people. Gerald Cadogan, a teacher and coach at Portsmouth City Schools, said the times of divisiveness in the country allowed the project which he co-fo...