Sun breaks boost tourism as Memorial Day weekend draws crowds
Tourists flood into Portsmouth and York Beach shops and eateries as sunny skies return after a rainy spell. Fat Belly’s Bar & Grill reports a busy weekend with crowded decks at Poco’s Bow Street Cantina and strong shopper activity at J.L. Coombs. York Beach’s Inn on the Blues notes day-trippers and live entertainment lifting weekend traffic. Gabby Sullivan’s managers report May sales up 20 percent from last year.
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Warrior softball earns Class L playoff berth in Hampton
The Warrior softball team clinches a spot in the Class L playoffs with a victory in Hampton as a stray shower drifts across the area.
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Portsmouth ceremony honors submariners lost at sea
In Albacore Park Portsmouth a memorial service remembered more than 3,500 submariners who died at sea during World War II. Eileen Foley and Mayor Evelyn Sirrell spoke as veterans and submarine veterans' children laid wreaths on four stones in the Memorial Garden.
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Memorial Day observances honor fallen soldiers along Seacoast
Seacoast towns from York Maine to Seabrook held parades and ceremonies to honor those who fought and died. In Portsmouth a memorial day observance at Emerson Hovey Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 168 drew about 50 attendees including Mayor Evelyn Sirrell and Portsmouth Goodwill attendees.
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Emerson Hovey Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 168
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Portsmouth
Shipyard braces for BRAC visit by Principi panel
PORTSMOUTH Members of the Base Realignment and Closure Commission will visit Portsmouth Naval Shipyard on Wednesday. Chairman Anthony Principi and commissioners James Bilbray Philip Coyle and Lloyd Newton will tour from 10 30 to 11 a.m. Maine and New Hampshire governors will join, according to the Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce.
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New Hampshire
Rally Time Now Earlier At Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
The rally to welcome base realignment and closure commissioners is moved to start by 10 a.m. on Wednesday. Public attendees should line Route 1 and Walker Street toward the shipyard main gate. Seacoast Shipyard Association urges flags and homemade Save our Shipyard signs as commissioners arrive.
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Principal to fight for job at hearing
Hampton Winnacunnet High School Principal Ruth Leveille seeks a public School Board hearing to explain why Superintendent James Gaylord will not renew her one year contract. The 6 p.m. session in the Winnacunnet library will reveal differing reasons cited by Gaylord and the board.
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Red faced boater rides flood to Great Bay in drift mission
A boater launches a 12 foot aluminum craft from Chapmans Landing as the Squamscott River floods the landing. The 1973 Eastwin outboard sputters and finally runs, pushing the boat toward Great Bay. He navigates rapids near the old B M Railroad bridge and enters an empty Great Bay in bright morning light.
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