SOMC births
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April 24 Lisa Newman and Nicolas Browning of Portsmouth, son Steven Theiss and Jamie Clark of Garrison (Ky.), son April 25 Janet M. West of Portsmouth, daughter Taylor Jenkins and Brandy Sprouse of Ironton, son April 26 Meliss...

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Taking the bad with the good in 2013
Portia Williams PDT Staff Writer Grace and peace to all. We are on the thresh hold of a new year, of which, if G...
01:00 AM, Friday, January 04
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SOMC Births
Southern Ohio Medical Center births December 14 Travis and Kaleigh Baucom of Peebles, son December 16 Ch...
01:00 AM, Sunday, December 30
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Christmas on the Civil War battlefield
Chip Horr Contributing Columnist Part II: From the battlefield: “We got a Christmas dinner which arrived too...
01:00 AM, Sunday, December 30
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You know you are from Portsmouth if…
Trinity Methodist Church from the Bill Glockner collection submitted by Jim Detty Andy Lyles wrote: Likely the sam...
01:00 AM, Sunday, December 30
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Let’s Talk Poetry: Object Poems Redux
Neil Carpathios Contributing Columnist In my last column, I discussed and shared two poems about ordinary, every...
01:00 AM, Sunday, December 30
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Change the mindset
Frank Lewis PDT Staff Writer There is a thriving new business going on in our community and many people probably...
01:00 AM, Thursday, December 13
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Letter to the Editor
The staff at the Ohio River Valley Chapter of the American Red Cross would like to thank those of you who have so ge...
01:00 AM, Thursday, December 13
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You Know You’re From Portsmouth If …
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01:00 AM, Sunday, December 09
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You Know You’re From Portsmouth if…
Union Mission submitted by Karen Sue Wikoff Karen Sue Wikoff wrote: This building is at the corner of Court & Fr...
01:00 AM, Sunday, October 14
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Everyone has to be somewhere
Dudley Wooten Contributing Columnist We all talk about the world’s problems, but what are we doing about them? M...
01:00 AM, Sunday, October 14
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It’s what you didn’t do.
Loren Hardin Contributing Columnist David was a self employed business man; a logger and saw mill owner. He was ...
01:00 AM, Sunday, October 14
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Let’s Talk Poetry: Poetry Exercise
Here is a poetry exercise. Give it a try. It will challenge you to use proper rhyme, as well as to use vivid, sensor...
01:00 AM, Sunday, October 14
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The rules of war
Chip Horr Contributing Columnist At the beginning of the Civil War in 1861, few Americans had given much thought...
01:00 AM, Sunday, October 14
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SOMC Births
Oct. 1 Kara and Ryan Redoutey of McDermott, son Sarah Mitchell and Tom Newmann of West Portsmouth, daughter ...
01:00 AM, Sunday, October 14
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Letter to the editor
Dear Editor, I am the mother of Jennifer Holsinger. She is the mother of three children, and a widow as of July, 1...
03:10 PM, Saturday, October 13
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