🌱 Home Prices Still Surging + Pride Back: Portsmouth A.M. Digest

Good morning, Portsmouth! It's Friday, so let's get you started with everything you need to know going on around town today.

First, today's weather:

Mostly sunny and delightful. High: 69 Low: 56.

Here are the top stories today in Portsmouth:

1. 'Chump change'? Two Portsmouth homes sell for combined $7.8 million in the same week (Seacoastonline.com)
2. PRIDE Is Back on The Seacoast At Portsmouth,NH March (Seacoast Current)
3. Kerr: Portsmouth's 'Pumpkin Church' patch benefits many (Seacoastonline.com)
4. 'Excellent approach': Expanded outdoor deck approved for Martingale Wharf in Portsmouth (Seacoastonline.com)

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Today in Portsmouth:

• Morning Mixer 2021 Presented by Service Credit Union Hosted By GoodWork (8:30 AM)
• Walking Tour: Historic Downtown Portsmouth (2:30 PM)
• Anjimile at 3S Artspace - Greater Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce (8:00 PM)
• Whose Live Anyway? (8:00 PM)

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— Jason Claffey

About me: I grew up in Massachusetts outside Boston and started my journalism career at 19 when I earned an internship in the sports department of The Boston Globe. I graduated from Boston University in 2007 and became a reporter at Foster's Daily Democrat in New Hampshire before joining Patch in 2010. I've covered three New Hampshire primaries and won awards for environmental reporting and Sunday staff excellence from the New England Newspaper & Press Association.

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