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PORTSMOUTH After a passionate plea from high school students to make a change, the City Council narrowly voted Monday to reject permanently placing Indigenous Peoples Day on the city calendar alongside Columbus Day. Councilor Cliff Lazenby made a motion for the city to recognize Indigenous Peoples Day “instead of what has been typically designated by the state of New Hampshire as Columbus Day. Councilor Petra Huda moved to amend the motion to give residents the choice to recognize either Indigenous Peoples Day or Columbus Day “until such time as the state and federal laws recognize the need for change or elimination of the current name.” That was later amended to permanently recognize both holidays alongside each other. It failed in a 5-4 vote. ....
PORTSMOUTH Before she joined the Portsmouth High School staff a few years ago, librarian Heather Raab was a speech pathologist who had only worked sparingly in a school library setting when she volunteered in her two kids’ school. Before coming to Clipper country, she had never even worked with high schoolers. “I had only worked in elementary school or with younger students,” she said. Three years into her tenure, Raab has certainly made her mark at PHS and beyond, as the New Hampshire School Library Media Association recently recognized her with a statewide award. On Friday, May 14, Raab was named the recipient of the NHSLMA’s 2021 “Emerging Leader” award, an honor “given to a school librarian who has been working in the profession for five years or less and has already made significant contributions to the school library community,” per the NHSLMA. ....
Lost and found class ring reconnects old friends across the country By (0) Karen and Joe Brazas of Channel Islands Beach, Calif., said a New Hampshire high school class ring they found on a beach turned out to belong to Joe Castrogiovanni, a former family friend who moved away from the area. Photo by violey/Pixabay.com Feb. 1 (UPI) A California couple s discovery of a New Hampshire class ring on a beach led to their unexpectedly reconnecting with an old friend who turned out to be the ring s owner. Karen Brazas of Channel Islands Beach, Calif., said her husband, Joe, found the Portsmouth High School Class of 1962 ring while using his metal detector on a beach. ....
PORTSMOUTH Helped by a fervent local sleuth placing messages across America, a Portsmouth High School Class of 1962 ring found in California is being returned to its suspected rightful owner. Bruce Wesley Singleton, 76, born in the old Portsmouth Cottage Hospital and a former Portsmouth Herald delivery boy, was contacted over the weekend in Washington state about what is believed to be his ring. Wanda Fontaine, of Eliot, Maine, whose parents are part of the PHS Class of 1962, took an interest in the mystery of the ring, searching old PHS archives and tracking him down. “It stretches the imagination, but there’s no doubt in my mind that that’s my ring,” Singleton said Sunday. ....