🌱 Portsmouth Daily: Students Raising $10K For Tourneys; Nano-Brewery

Happy Friday, Portsmouth! It's Tony Schinella. Let's get you all caught up to start today off on an informed note.

First, today's weather:

A little morning rain. High: 62 Low: 40.

Here are the top stories today in Portsmouth:

1. NOVA joins Cyclyx effort (Waste Today Magazine)
2. Fugitive Found Hiding; Plea Coming For Harmony's Stepmom? PM Patch NH
3. New Hampshire Fugitive Found Stashed In Hidden Room: U.S. Marshals
4. PHS students need to raise $10,000 to compete in national tournaments (Seacoastonline.com)
5. Stepmom Of Missing NH Girl Offered Welfare Theft Charge Deal: Report
6. NH Joint Fugitive Task Force Arrests Massachusetts Child Rape Suspect
7. Portsmouth buying Community Campus without using federal funds. Here's the plan. (Seacoastonline.com)
8. Celebrating kids, leadership conferences and ribbon cuttings: Seacoast business news (Foster's Daily Democrat)
9. This Weekend's Portsmouth Area Events: Storytelling Fest; Comedy; More (Portsmouth Patch)
10. Portsmouth Weekend Weather Forecast (Portsmouth Patch)
11. Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Getting New Nano-Brewery (wokq.com)
12. Prescott Park Arts Festival unveils first dates of summer concert series. Here's who's playing (Seacoastonline.com)
13. Portsmouth: 5 Freshest Properties For Sale (Portsmouth Patch)
14. New Hampshire State Trooper Honored With Retirement Of Plate (Patch)
15. Pneuma Systems collaborates with West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. to improve the patient experience (PR Newswire)
16. Dolben Co. JV Breaks Ground on New Hampshire Community (Multi-Housing News)
17. Is crypto good for cities? (Tech Monitor)
18. SPLASH! The Art of Portsmouth’s Young People exhibit at Portsmouth Public Library this month (Seacoastonline.com)
19. Stages: Laughs aplenty in MCC’s ‘Rocky Horror Show’ (Sentinel & Enterprise)
20. 'Kilnerry' for a day, World Fusion Music and RiverRun Bookstore: 5 things to do this weekend (Seacoastonline.com)
21. Despite gerrymandering, Pappas, Kuster will be re-elected to Congress: Letters (Seacoastonline.com)
22. 'Share the excitement': Diversions Puzzle & Games of Portsmouth to open in Somersworth (Seacoastonline.com)

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Today in Portsmouth:

• Comedian Jim McCue (8:00 PM)
• McCues Comedy Club - Greater Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce (8:00 PM)
• 6th Annual Storytelling Festival--New Hampshire Theatre Project (8:00 PM)
• Comedian Jim McCue (8:00 PM)
• NHTP's 6th Annual Storytelling Festival (8:00 PM)
• NH Theatre Project's Annual Storytelling Festival (8:00 PM)

From my notebook:

• Prescott Park Arts Festival: "Next up in our first wave of announcements in The River House Restaurant Concert Series - It's the happy return of popular Providence-based roots rockers, Deer Tick! Don't miss them on Thursday, July 21st. https://linktr.ee/ppaf #DeerTic..." (Facebook)
• Prescott Park Arts Festival: "The Festival’s The River House Restaurant Concert Series has announced its first wave of concerts! The highly-anticipated season will be opened by be the prolific singer/songwriter, Josh Ritter! A Festival favorite, Ritter will return to..." (Facebook)
• Prescott Park Arts Festival: "Spring must be here because we are kicking off our first wave of announcements in The River House Restaurant Concert Series! That's right, this season we are revealing *new concerts each week* in a roll-out of what will be an unforgettab..." (Facebook)
• Seacoast Eat Local: "Happy April everyone! This Saturday, April 9th from 10:00-2:00 we are hosting the next winter farmers' market at the Cooperative Middle School in Stratham. Over 30 vendors will be attending with a wide range of seasonal food products to ..." (Facebook)
• Prescott Park Arts Festival: "The final concert we are divulging in this first wave of announcements in The River House Restaurant Concert Series is Miko Marks with Dwayne Haggins on Wednesday, August 10th. After a long overdue hiatus from music, Marks is eager to sp..." (Facebook)
• Prescott Park Arts Festival: "The second concert announced in the first wave of The River House Concert Series is Seattle-based seven piece, The Dip who deliver the kind of unbridled rhythm-and-blues that hits on every emotional level. Joined by the soulful and arres..." (Facebook)
• The Chamber Collaborative of Greater Portsmouth: "They’re tall, y’all. And they’re coming back to Portsmouth. Sail Portsmouth" (Facebook)
• Portsmouth Rotary Club: "This weeks speaker, Detective Rochelle Jones is shown with Club President Justin Finn." (Facebook)
• Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival: "PMFF News! The countdown to the 2022 Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival is underway! Read on for artists, volunteer opportunities, this Saturday’s shenanigans, pizza fundraiser, and more! PERFORMERS: Our headliners were announced last mon..." (Facebook)
• Strawbery Banke Museum: "Baby Animals: Heritage Breeds at the Banke returns to Strawbery Banke Museum from April 23-May 1, 2022. Learn about heritage-breed barnyard animals including lambs, kids, calves, piglets, and bunnies, their care, developmental needs, and..." (Facebook)
• Portsmouth High School Boys Basketball: "Congratulations to our own Carmine Zingariello and Jack Radcliffe🏀 https://www.seacoastonline.com/story/sports/high-school/sports-awards/2022/04/07/nominees-boys-basketball-seacoast-high-school-sports-awards/7249903001/" (Facebook)
• Portsmouth Rotary Club: "President Justin & Vice President Yvonne are shown with Carrie Barron the newest Paul Harris recipient." (Facebook)
• Strawbery Banke Museum: "As Strawbery Banke prepares for the opening of the historic house season on May 1, the Museum takes a moment to thank The Rowley Agency, Inc. on this #ThankYouThursday. The Rowley Agency believes in championing the neighborhoods and comm..." (Facebook)
• Seacoast Outright: "NOW IN-PERSON Seacoast Outright has resumed in-person youth meetings 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 #YouB..." (Facebook)
• Portsmouth Professional Firefighters Local 1313: "Please show your legislators that you support your local firefighters and police officers! Follow the link below to sign up in support!" (Facebook)
• Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire: "BHTNH is thrilled to be partnering again with St. John's Episcopal Church for a Good Friday walk. Please note, the in-person walk is now full. You can still join the virtual walk by registering on our website - blackheritagetrailnh.org" (Facebook)
• HAVEN NH: "Whether a sexual assault happened many years ago or maybe just recently... it's never too late to get the support you deserve. HAVEN is here for you. For free, confidential support 24/7 call 603.994.SAFE (7233) or connect with an advocat..." (Facebook)
• The Chamber Collaborative of Greater Portsmouth: "Welcome to... Kilnerry?! Love in Kilnerry" (Facebook)
• The Chamber Collaborative of Greater Portsmouth: "First concert names released! 🌊🌊🌊" (Facebook)
• The Chamber Collaborative of Greater Portsmouth: "𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒂𝒃𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒍𝒔 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒂𝒏𝒌𝒆! Peter Cook, guest curator, educates visitors about Gloucestershire Old Spot pigs at a previous Baby Animals: Heritage Breeds at the Banke event. (Photo courtesy David..." (Facebook)
• Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire: "April is #NationalPoetryMonth, and we want to pay homage to some of the great African American Poets who’ve helped shape our culture. On April 1st, Exeter LitFest celebrated the 200th Birthday of Exeter-born James Monroe Whitfield with a..." (Facebook)
• Seacoast Outright: "Help Bring History to Life at Strawbery Banke Museum. Our friends are hiring historical interpreters, role-players, and visitor services associates. Seasonal positions May - October. Please share. https://strawberybanke.org/people/jobs.c..." (Facebook)
• PPMtv - Portsmouth Public Media: "Wait! You didn’t know we had a professional podcasting booth ready for you? 🎙🎧" (Facebook)

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