🌱 Portsmouth Daily: Diner For Sale; Diamond Rings Disposed By Mistake

Up and at 'em, Portsmouth! It's Tony Schinella. Here's everything you need to know to get this Saturday started off right.

First, today's weather:

Cloudy with a few showers. High: 63 Low: 39.

Here are the top stories today in Portsmouth:

1. Portsmouth woman accidentally throws 4 diamond rings in trash (WMUR Manchester)
2. Schools announce new hires, Tech students head to Nationals: Seacoast education news (Seacoastonline.com)
3. Driver Abandons 100 Grams Of Fentanyl After Trooper Chase: PM Patch NH
4. Beloved Restored 1950s Diner in Portsmouth, NH, is for Sale (wokq.com)
5. Local gardener wins award, Girl Scouts visit police: Community news update (Seacoastonline.com)
6. Food, toys and donations needed: Ways to help in your community (Seacoastonline.com)
7. 5 Collaborative Of Greater Portsmouth: Broken Open, A Five-Artist Exhibition, Opens April 19 At Museum Of New Art (Portsmouth Patch)
8. Jimmy's Jazz & Blues Reinvents the Jazz Supper Club in Portsmouth (Northshore Magazine)
9. TEDxPortsmouth to examine 'Hidden in Plain Sight' theme: Here are 2022 speakers (Seacoastonline.com)
10. Seacoast Students for Sustainability invite community to Earth Day rally: Letters (Seacoastonline.com)
11. 'The Pearl' in Portsmouth sells for $1.4M. Vision for church where MLK spoke evolving (Seacoastonline.com)

Today in Portsmouth:

• Comedian Paul Nardizzi (8:00 PM)
• Paul Nardizzi (8:00 PM)
• Kevin Nealon (8:00 PM)

From my notebook:

• Seacoast Eat Local: "How does one go from growing up in Paris, France to becoming a poultry farmer in Danville, New Hampshire? Well, for Phil Nugent it all started with summers spent at an aunt’s farm in Northern France. 🐓 There, he helped care for the chic..." (Facebook)
• Seacoast Outright: "We see your true colors! Learn more about Seacoast Outright and what we do at https://www.seacoastoutright.o... . . . #YouBeYou #ISeeYourTrueColors #ColorsOfDiversity" (Facebook)
• HAVEN NH: "HAVEN is hiring! Join the Dream Team at HAVEN as the Manager of Client Services. Click the link to learn more and apply: https://www.nhnonprofits.org/view/job-listing/242386" (Facebook)
• Krempels Center: "Register by tonight (Friday, April 15) to receive your free commemorative 2022 Cisco Brewers Portsmouth 5K t-shirt! https://conta.cc/3EeUKRX #RunForBrainInjury #Cisco5K #PortsmouthNH #SeacoastNH #MoreThanMyBrainInjury #KrempelsCenter" (Facebook)
• Portsmouth Historical Society: "By J Dennis Robinson With a crew including men from the Piscataqua region, John Paul Jones waged what amounted to a one-ship war along the coast of Great Britain during the American Revolution. Although his guerilla raids aboard Ranger i..." (Facebook)
• Strawbery Banke Museum: "Need summer plans for your child ages 6-8? A few spaces remain for a hands-on, interactive experience at Victorian DIY Summer Camp, which runs August 1-5, 2022, 9 AM-3 PM. Life was changing at lightning speed during the 19th-century and ..." (Facebook)
• The Chamber Collaborative of Greater Portsmouth: "A celebration you're invited to help shape and salute! #CountUsIn Welcome, PortsmouthNH400, you've got enviable energy for a quad-centennial! Learn more at https://portsmouthchamber.org/... #PortsmouthNH #..." (Facebook)
• Seacoast Outright: "Happy Passover to our Jewish friends and neighbors. April 15-23, 2022 May you be blessed with peace and happiness. . . . #HappyPassover #Pesach" (Facebook)
• The Chamber Collaborative of Greater Portsmouth: "Barre & Soul is having a celebration! https://www.facebook.com/events/267082075633144/?ref=newsfeed" (Facebook)
• Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire: "“Katie lived with her grandmother on Portsmouth’s waterfront, where Mrs. Brown is believed to have taken in strangers seeking shelter as they escaped from slavery in the 1840s. Her husband was from Pennsylvania, where ships often embarke..." (Facebook)
• Cisco Brewers Portsmouth 5K: "Register by midnight tonight (Friday, April 15th) to receive your commemorative race tee! Sign-up here: www.krempelscenter.org/5K #Cisco5K #PortsmouthNH #KrempelsCenterr #RunForBrainInjury #SeacoastNH" (Facebook)
• Seacoast Rotary Club: "We are extremely saddened by the loss of our friend Scott Lombardo of V-MAT / Veterans Martial Arts Training. Scott passed away on April 6th. But we will celebrate his life and carry on his mission that 'Only Kindness Matters'. Scott was..." (Facebook)
• The Chamber Collaborative of Greater Portsmouth: "via Business NH Magazine "This new funding will support transit agencies to finance new buses and railcars, address repair backlogs, modernize fleets and transition to new technologies to address the climate crisis."" (Facebook)
• Seacoast Outright: "Portsmouth PRIDE Marketplace Vendors Wanted! We are looking for family-friendly vendors to join us on June 25th at Strawbery Banke. Vendor application can be found at https://www.seacoastoutright.org/pride. If you have any questions feel..." (Facebook)
• Seacoast Outright: "FRIDAY NIGHTS, 7PM, YOUTH GROUP Seacoast Outright in-person youth meets every Friday at 7 pm. 📍 South Church, 292 State St Portsmouth, NH 03801 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Middle/High School, ages 12-19 😷 COVID-19 protocols can be found on our website #Y..." (Facebook)

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— Tony Schinella

About me: Award-winning journalist and broadcaster for Patch.com in NH (off and on) since June 2011. Community coverage includes Concord, Hampton-North Hampton, Merrimack, Nashua, Portsmouth, and Salem. Reachable at tony.schinella@patch.com. Career highlights available on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/an...