Portsmouth Firefighters were kept busy throughout the evening last night responding homes and businesses that reported smelling natural gas fumes. “We’ve been out to numerous locations around town...
State Gives $4.3M To Scioto Teachers Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland and Ohio Department of Education ( ODE ) Superintendent of Public Instruction Deborah Delisle have announced that Ohio will receive $361,179,690 from the $10 billion Educa...
President Of Ohio AFL-CIO Coming To Portsmouth Ohio AFL - CIO President Joe Rugola will visit Portsmouth as he hits the Road for the “Keep Ohio Moving Forward” Labor Day Tour. The tour will include stops at Labor Day events in Portsmouth on ...
Mayor: Possible FEMA Trailers For PPD HQ? Portsmouth Mayor Jane Murray is suggesting the Portsmouth Police Department move into FEMA trailers. In an e-mail to Portsmouth Chief of Police Charles Horner, Murray wrote — “I mentioned this t...
City Schools Continue Trend Of Improvement Portsmouth City School Superintendent Scott Dutey said the district is very pleased with its performance on the 2009-10 Local Report Cards, released last week by the Ohio Department of Education. ...
New Program To Promote Tire Recycling The Lawrence-Scioto County Solid Waste District wants people to “do the right thing,” and bring their old tires to one of the three locations in Scioto County for the Tire Amnesty Program, Sept. 1...
Ethics Commission response comes to light Portsmouth Mayor Jane Murray and a group of Portsmouth Citizens have a pending lawsuit against the city of Portsmouth regarding flooding in her home and the homes of others. Murray came into offi...
In a letter to Fred Snell, Pretreatment Coordinator for the Division of Surface Water in the Southeast District Office of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, Leeann Sammons, Vice President of...
Attorney Corey Columbo of the McTigue Law Group, specifically McTigue and McGinnis, has filed a protest with the Scioto County Board of Elections concerning the petitions for the recall of Portsmou...
Dr. Tracy Murray did his part to put a smile on the faces of people who may not be able to afford dental work, with his third annual Free Services Day on Saturday. “It’s just our way to give back ...
The Kentucky Agricultural Development Board (KADB), chaired by Gov. Steve Beshear, approved $3,629,731 in 29 agricultural diversification projects across the Commonwealth during its August board me...
Buddy LaRosa and other members of the LaRosa family were in Portsmouth Friday to cut the ribbon at LaRosa’s Pizzaria on Gallia Street in Portsmouth. The restaurant had a special preview lunch for i...
Seven people were arrested Friday night and Saturday morning during the Ohio State Highway Patrol joined efforts with the Scioto County Sheriff’s Office to catch inebriated drivers passing through ...
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