More amenities on the way for beloved park in Portsmouth s Mt Hermon neighborhood – Daily Press dailypress.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dailypress.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
After months of pleas from a handful of residents, Portsmouth is now spending a few thousand dollars to install a sprinkler system to aid grass growth at the park named in the late Bernard Griffin Sr.'s honor. But residents aren't stopping there to revitalize the beloved historic park.
Portsmouth played a significant role in the dismantling of the Sugar Hill neighborhood. Now, the city wants to right the wrongs of the past by returning the land to the Black families it was taken from. But one of the questions still up for debate is whether returning the land would be helpful at all.
Portsmouth is considering returning land to residents of a historic Black neighborhood Is it a blessing or a burden? dailypress.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dailypress.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.