PORTSMOUTH – PopUp NH’s request to use the city-owned Worth parking lot for the second season of its outdoor performance and food venue is headed to a city committee for review.
The City Council voted 6-3 to send the request to the newly formed Mayor’s Blue Ribbon Committee on Arts and Non-Profits.
PopUp NH operated last year in the nearby Bridge Street parking lot, offering food and other vendors and entertainment as a way to help businesses make more revenue during the coronavirus pandemic. This year, the group is seeking to hold a six-month second season in the Worth lot beginning on May 1.
PORTSMOUTH The City Council has approved changes to the Prescott Park Master Plan, which recommends spending more than $3 million to protect the city-owned park from flooding.
The council voted unanimously Monday to approve the changes to the plan recommended by the Mayor’s Blue Ribbon Committee. Multiple recommended projects are aimed at protecting the beloved city park on the banks of the tidal Piscataqua River from flooding and other threats posed by climate change.
Tom Watson, who is chair of the Blue Ribbon committee, told the City Council the threats posed by rising water “will continue to be an increasing problem going forward.”
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Tonight s top telly tips include Gogglebox Ireland Looks Back, some guitar work on The Repair Shop, the return of Stephen Nolan and the finale of Bulletproof: South Africa . . .
Pick of the Day
Ireland’s favourite couch potato TV critics are back for a new season of telly-watching.
Before the next run of the show gets fully underway, the telly-lovers tell viewers what they think about some of the shows we
used to watch.
The households take a trip through the magic door with
Bosco (below), help Mike Murphy pick Ireland’s Eurovision entry and also sample some 1970s science with Pat Kenny.
Thousands of miles from her home in Cork, on a moonlit beach in Costa Rica in 2013, Sinéad O Leary cradled a baby turtle and brought it down to the shoreline, where it would be safe from poachers. "It was so peaceful," she recalls of the years she spent there. "I had a friend who was teaching in Costa Rica and there was a volunteer programme in the jungle at this turtle place. And it just seemed the right thing to do at that time. I found that to lose yourself in the service of others is very helpful when you have things going on yourself. The gentle lull of the sea at night made it much easier to sleep."