Portsmouth Daily Times

3 days ago | portsmouth-dailytimes.com | Lori McNelly

A Portsmouth man has been sentenced to two to three years in prison after pleading guilty to a charge of pandering obscenity involving a minor or impaired person. Tarik Matthews, 22, of Portsmouth, was arrested last fall when Portsmouth detectives executed a search warrant at his home. The Portsmouth Police Department was contacted by Internet Crimes Against Children about child sex abuse material sent from an apartment on Thomas Avenue.

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.

4 days ago | portsmouth-dailytimes.com | Lori McNelly

Scioto County Commissioner Bryan Davis is decrying the standstill of economic development in the wake of the former director’s corruption indictment. At last week’s regular meeting of the county’s board of commissioners, Davis said economic development in the county has been “nonexistent for two months.”kAm“|J 4@?46C? :D H6 5@ ?@E 92G6 2 D9:A @C 2 42AE2:? 2?5 H6’C6 e_ 52JD :?[” 96 D2:5]k^AmkAmu@C>6C $4:@E@ r@F?EJ t4@?@>:4 s6G6=@A>6?E s:C64E@C #@36CE !] w@CE@? H2D :?5:4E65 @? 4@CCFAE:@?

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.

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.