Portsmouth has led before and will lead again. Not by repeating the past, but by carrying forward its courage and sense of ...

Friday: Cloudy with afternoon rain, with a high of 42 and low of 37 degrees.

For those who missed the 1970s, Bob Thoresen has written a very readable history of changes in Portsmouth's downtown.

“I was horrified,” said Greg Eatroff, curator of the local history and genealogy room at the Portsmouth Public Library. “It’s just such a historically important building. … It was architecturally ...