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Driving change: York commits to Route 1 traffic study to curb speeding, accidents
YORK, Maine — A study of Route 1 will take place this year to guide future improvements of one of York’s most bustling roads. The town is collaborating with the Southern Maine Planning and Development Commission (SMPDC), the Kittery Area Comprehensive Transportation System (KACTS) and the Maine Department of Transportation on the study of Route 1. The study is expected to take place over the course of a year and will examine the stretch of Route 1 from the Kittery border up to Mountain Road.
Exeter's Supreme Pizza reopening after fire caused nearly 3-year hiatus
EXETER — Supreme Pizza & Seafood is reopening in May after it was shut down for nearly three years due to a devastating fire. Owner Panagiotis “Peter” Parkiotis said this week repair work is almost complete at the 134 Front Street pizzeria. “I’m hoping everybody is going...
Oar House restaurant celebrating 50 years on Portsmouth waterfront: 'It's just special'
PORTSMOUTH — Filled with local maritime history everywhere you turn, The Oar House restaurant is celebrating a historic milestone of its own in 2024. The upscale Ceres Street restaurant and bar is marking its 50th anniversary on the city's waterfront, a crowning achievement on a property with no shortage of stories.
Commentary: Our sweet and bittersweet relationship with vines
This column appears every other week in Foster’s Daily Democrat and the Tuskegee News. This week, Guy Trammell, an African American man from Tuskegee, Ala., and Amy Miller, a white woman from South Berwick, Maine, write about plant vines.By Amy Miller. Today I will be offering sci-fi. I won’t...
NH: Bill would reduce youth center lawsuits by paying victims more, expanding eligibility
New Hampshire is responding on two fronts to the hundreds of claims of sexual and physical abuse from individuals held as children at the former Youth Development Center: in a Brentwood courtroom, where it is defending itself against the first of what could be hundreds of costly lawsuits, and at the Legislature.
Late heroics by Hayden Schimoler rallies Exeter baseball past Portsmouth
PORTSMOUTH - Exeter High School baseball coach Bruce Joyce said it should be on SportsCenter, Blue Hawk first baseman Shea LaFleur said it was one of the most insane plays he's ever seen, and Portsmouth head coach Tim Hopley described it as Willie Mays style. Certainly high praise for Exeter's Hayden Schimoler who...
Seacoast, NH leaders must condemn antisemitism: Letters
Leaders have a responsibility to condemn antisemitism. Those of us on the Seacoast have lived through several recent antisemitic incidents, including the April 8 vandalism of two antique sconces at Temple Israel in Portsmouth – the first permanent Jewish house of worship in New Hampshire. These attacks are taking place in a larger landscape that has grown increasingly hostile to Jewish people.
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