Portsmouth to Celebrate Emancipation Day on September 22
Grand Jury returns 22 indictments
Jury returns 14 indictments
Man indicted in rape of girl, 10, who traveled for abortion
Justices side with doctors convicted in pain pill schemes
Latest Updates
- Happy Pot named business of the year - 2:21 pm
- Winter heating assistance available from AEP program - 1:55 pm
- Scioto Gives keeps giving - 1:41 pm
- Loretta Lynn, coal miner’s daughter and country queen, dies - 1:39 pm
- Dayton Man Arrested on Drug Charge - 1:31 pm
- Roadwork schedule - 1:55 pm
- SSU to host Career Fair - 2:40 pm
- Vern Riffe Center for the Arts to host “Legally Blonde, the Musical” - 2:39 pm
- Party in the Park set for Oct 8 - 2:33 pm
- Scioto Gives back - 2:32 pm
- House OKs bill to avert government shutdown, aid Ukraine - 2:20 pm
- Hurricane Ian heads for Carolinas after pounding Florida - 2:19 pm
- Brown addresses farm credit - 5:14 pm
- Salmons spreading fire awareness - 5:07 pm
- New SCCTC program changing lives - 2:18 pm
- Many trapped in Florida as Ian heads north - 2:13 pm
- Brown urges Biden to fill posts - 5:02 pm
- Quilt Festival a fabric of the community - 4:09 pm
- Glocktoberfest set for Sunday - 1:33 pm
- Wheelersburg Homecoming - 4:49 pm
- Chamber Announces new Burnside Award - 2:53 pm
- City Engineer proposes consolidating parks into massive new project - 2:52 pm
- TOSRV numbers improve - 4:03 pm
- Spears’ life celebrated - 4:01 pm
- Farming conferences scheduled - 11:27 am
NEWS
Scioto Gives back
PORTSMOUTH — Scioto Gives is an annual charity event run by the Scioto Foundation. They have been providing aid to local 501(C)3 nonprofits (NPO...
House OKs bill to avert government shutdown, aid Ukraine
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Democratic-led House passed a short-term spending bill on Friday that finances the federal government through mid-December...
Hurricane Ian heads for Carolinas after pounding Florida
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A revived Hurricane Ian threatened coastal South Carolina and the historic city of Charleston with severe flooding Frida...
Brown addresses farm credit
U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH), a member of the U.S. Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee, and U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA),...
Salmons spreading fire awareness
WHEELERSBURG — You only have minutes to react in a residential fire situation and local business owners and fire departments are spreading the w...
New SCCTC program changing lives
LUCASVILLE — One of the latest programs to join the impressive slate of offerings at the Scioto County Career and Technical Center (SCCTC) is th...
SPORTS
Heading away from home
SOUTH WEBSTER — The Minford boys soccer team entered Tuesday’s Southern Ohio Conference Division II contest versus South Webster needing a...
October 5th, 2022 updated: October 5th, 2022. |
SPORTS SCOREBOARD —October 4
SPORTS SCOREBOARD —October 4VolleyballSouth Webster 3, Minford 0 (25-13, 25-13, 25-11)Wheelersburg 3, Oak Hill 0 (25-9, 25-14, 25-11)Waverly 3, ...
Back to state: Valley’s Phillips win D-III district
McDERMOTT — The road back to state has been a year-long journey for Valley sophomore Cameron Phillips.During Monday’s Division III Southea...
October 5th, 2022 updated: October 5th, 2022. |
Reds avoid 100th loss with walk-off win
CINCINNATI (AP) — Spencer Steer doubled off Brandon Hughes in the ninth inning to score Stuart Fairchild, and the Cincinnati Reds avoided their ...
Putnam cruises to win in Portsmouth Invite
WEST PORTSMOUTH — By his own admission, and indeed his candor, Portsmouth High School junior and standout cross country runner Charles Putnam ha...
Pirates roll past Oaks in SOC II
WHEELERSBURG — From the opening kickoff on, it was all Wheelersburg during Friday night’s Southern Ohio Conference Division II meeting bet...
October 4th, 2022 updated: October 4th, 2022. |
LIFE
Prehistoric lecture continues Sept. 29
The Southern Ohio Museum and Cultural Center’s 2022 Prehistory Lecture Series continues on Thursday, September 29, at 6pm in the museum’s ...
September 26th, 2022 updated: September 26th, 2022. |
Another one dish, easy recipe
Hello! In the kitchen with Sharon is Patricia Nicholes with her Million Dollar Spaghetti Casserole. Wow this is an amazing recipe.I am making this ...
Vern Riffe Center for the Arts to host “Legally Blonde, the Musical” on Oct. 27
The Vern Riffe Center for the Arts (VRCFA) at Shawnee State University will host Broadway’s “Legally Blonde, the Musical” Thursday, ...
Native authors books
West Portsmouth native, Jeffery Evans, has come a long way since his days of playing on Stoney Run. Now, proudly decorated with two Masters degrees, a...
PPL recommends these books: Blood Sugar, The Measure and Yonder
The Portsmouth Public Library would like to recommend these book titles. Each title is available to borrow with your library card! For more book recom...
OPINION
September is Kinship Care month
In Ohio, over 200,000 children are living in kinship families. Research shows that when they must be apart from their parents, children do better with...
Now is the ideal time to restore your lawn
Column Head: Now is the Ideal Time to Restore Your LawnBlog Title: Lawn Restoration in FallEarly Fall is an ideal time to restore your lawn. There is ...
Sinking my teeth into the job
I spent a week eating my memories.A sub bun sliced horizontally, two slices of old-fashioned loaf, three or four slices of salami, provolone (should b...
Plant Bulbs Soon for Early Spring Color
Soon it will be the season to plant bulbs for early spring color. You can have a colorful garden very early next spring if you plant some bulbs right ...
Planters, Pots & Containers 3: Choosing the Right Potting Soil
The key to success in container gardening is having the right “soil”, or potting mix. The potting “soil” used to grow containe...
Letter to the EditorThe Pride display issue isn’t about protecting kids
A Pride display and a handful of kids’ books is an awfully small thing to get worked up about, but these are small-minded people. For about a mo...
