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3 days ago | 
yahoo.com | Joseph Pratt
How often does someone carelessly toss trash out moving car on a scenic highway? Or get tired of seeing tires and trash on their own property and decide to discard it where they shouldn’t because it is convenient and free? Often enough for Friends of Scioto Brush Creek to take action year after year to clean portions of the watershed and stream to only scratch the surface of pollutants in this sensitive ecosystem.
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4 days ago | 
portsmouth-dailytimes.com | Joseph Pratt
How often does someone carelessly toss trash out moving car on a scenic highway? Or get tired of seeing tires and trash on their own property and decide to discard it where they shouldn’t because it is convenient and free? Often enough for Friends of Scioto Brush Creek to take action year after year to clean portions of the watershed and stream to only scratch the surface of pollutants in this sensitive ecosystem.
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4 days ago | 
portsmouth-dailytimes.com | Joseph Pratt
On Easter Sunday, Randy and Janie Nickles were getting comfortable in their loft on Fourth Street with their four-legged child, Ripley the chocolate labrador. They had just showered after a visit with family in Columbus and were on the couch when they heard a smoke alarm ringing in their historic building between the Boneyfiddle District and Chillicothe Street. The Nickles are fervent supporters of Friends of Portsmouth, a nonprofit that is a household name in the region for events and festivals.
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6 days ago | 
yahoo.com | Joseph Pratt
17 years ago, Portsmouth Area Ladies started their nonprofit group to benefit the community and improve the quality of life for the residents in the Portsmouth area. The premise for PALS was quite simple. The organization is a group of volunteers, all ladies, that carries out fundraising activities through events and then distributes that money to other organizations in the community for a variety of needs through grants.
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6 days ago | 
yahoo.com | Joseph Pratt
Sarah Redoutey is a community leader who knows the importance of networking and outreach. Redoutey has worked at a plethora of non-profits, has served on boards and has volunteered enough to know that a project can grind to a halt if you don’t have dedicated volunteers to make plans on paper manifest into realized gains.
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6 days ago | 
portsmouth-dailytimes.com | Joseph Pratt
Sarah Redoutey is a community leader who knows the importance of networking and outreach. Redoutey has worked at a plethora of non-profits, has served on boards and has volunteered enough to know that a project can grind to a halt if you don’t have dedicated volunteers to make plans on paper manifest into realized gains.
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1 week ago | 
portsmouth-dailytimes.com | Joseph Pratt
17 years ago, Portsmouth Area Ladies started their nonprofit group to benefit the community and improve the quality of life for the residents in the Portsmouth area. The premise for PALS was quite simple. The organization is a group of volunteers, all ladies, that carries out fundraising activities through events and then distributes that money to other organizations in the community for a variety of needs through grants.
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1 week ago | 
portsmouth-dailytimes.com | Joseph Pratt
For a second year in a row, Portsmouth City Councilman Andy Cole served his third ward constituents by providing them with an opportunity for a spring cleanup event that he organized and spent a weekend assisting with. The cleanup resulted after regular alleyway cleanups and requests made by residents for a place to dump trash in order to cut back on how much is dumped in the public right of way. Additionally, it helps people remove unwanted items at no cost.
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1 week ago | 
yahoo.com | Joseph Pratt
Dozens of community members spent time Saturday proving there is nothing more enjoyable than the tactile experience of removing a record from a sleeve, placing it on a turntable and dropping the needle with care, as the scratching sound of emptiness turns into music you love. These shoppers and connoisseurs of music were visiting Haskins House Records for Record Store Day to celebrate a hobby that has survived decades, despite the rise of cassettes, CDs, MP3s and streaming options.
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1 week ago | 
portsmouth-dailytimes.com | Joseph Pratt
Dozens of community members spent time Saturday proving there is nothing more enjoyable than the tactile experience of removing a record from a sleeve, placing it on a turntable and dropping the needle with care, as the scratching sound of emptiness turns into music you love. These shoppers and connoisseurs of music were visiting Haskins House Records for Record Store Day to celebrate a hobby that has survived decades, despite the rise of cassettes, CDs, MP3s and streaming options.
