🌱 Patch AM: How a police chase ended with a crash at Portsmouth airport

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In today's newsletter:

• How a police chase ended with a crash at Portsmouth airport
• How a Portsmouth art show turns water and AI into unease
• Where you can hear Portsmouth's Peace Treaty bells this September

Also on today's calendar: August 29/30 Seacoast Food Truck Festival ~ Kittery Premium Outlets and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: What gets bigger the more you take away? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

• Sunday: Some sun, then turning cloudy, with a high of 84 and low of 62 degrees.
• Monday: Partly sunny and pleasant, temps: high: 75, low: 61.
• Tuesday: Some rain and a thunderstorm, with a high of 73 and low of 60 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Suspect drives through fence, strikes plane at airport (wgal.com) — Police say a suspect trying to flee officers drove through a fence at Portsmouth International Airport and hit a parked, unoccupied small plane, prompting an active response on the airfield. Authorities haven't yet said where the pursuit began, whether anyone was injured, or if flights were disrupted, but crews remain on scene and more details are expected as the investigation continues.
   

• Visual Arts Review: Elsie Kagan's Uncanny Waters (artsfuse.org) — An immersive new exhibit at 3S Artspace on Vaughan Street in Portsmouth uses lush, AI-inflected paintings to explore water, climate anxiety, and our uneasy relationship with technology. The show, "the drop falls," runs through Sept. 27, inviting Seacoast residents to confront ecological collapse through unsettlingly beautiful, hyper-smooth canvases.
   

• Bells to ring for Portsmouth Peace Treaty Day (seacoastonline.com) — Bells across Portsmouth and nearby towns will ring at 3:47 p.m. on Sept. 5 to mark Portsmouth Peace Treaty Day, commemorating the 1905 signing that ended the Russo-Japanese War. A proclamation reading and remarks in Market Square kick off the celebration, with local churches, landmarks, and sister-city Nichinan joining in and a special exhibit at the John Paul Jones House Museum.
   

📸 Around Portsmouth

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Portsmouth

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Sunday August 30
• August 29/30 Seacoast Food Truck Festival ~ Kittery Premium Outlets →
  Kittery Trading Post, 301 US-1, Kittery
  11:00 am
Monday August 31
• Nichinan Nights Happy Hour →
  Greater Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce 15 Middle St. (inside Hotel Thaxter) Portsmouth, NH 03801
• FOOD & BEVERAGE: Happy Hour at Toscana
  Greater Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce 3 Pleasant Street, Portsmouth, NH
  4:00 pm
Tuesday September 1
• Nichinan Nights Happy Hour →
  Greater Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce 15 Middle St. (inside Hotel Thaxter) Portsmouth, NH 03801
• Junior Science: The Wonders of Water →
  Greater Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce 6 Washington Street Dover, NH 03820
  2:00 pm
• Public Service Industry Night
  Greater Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce Ore Nell's Barbecue Kittery, Maine
  4:00 pm
• FOOD & BEVERAGE: Happy Hour at Toscana
  Greater Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce 3 Pleasant Street, Portsmouth, NH
  4:00 pm
Wednesday September 2
• No-cost business growth education program for small businesses and non-profit leaders accepting applications now through November 27 →
  Greater Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce 500 Market St #16A, Portsmouth, NH 03801
Saturday September 5
• Sept 5/6 ~ Gluten Never Ever Expo - Milford, NH →
  The Hampshire Dome, 34 Emerson Rd, Milford
  10:00 am
Sunday September 6
• Sept 5/6 ~ Gluten Never Ever Expo - Milford, NH →
  The Hampshire Dome, 34 Emerson Rd, Milford
  10:00 am
Thursday September 10
• Seacoast Composite Squadron, OPEN HOUSE, 10 September 2026 →
  Service Credit Union, 3003 Lafayette Rd, Portsmouth
  6:30 pm
Saturday September 12
• Antique Show and Vintage Market →
  , Dover
  9:00 am

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• Friday's weather: Mostly sunny, humid, p.m. T-storm, high of 84 (inklink.news)

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: A hole (Thank you Netty W. for sending it in!)
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