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🌱 Patch AM: City Of Portsmouth: City Announces Parking And Road Closure Details For First Night (Dec. 31, 2025)
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In today's newsletter:
- Plan your parking before Portsmouth’s First Night road closures hit downtown
- How Portsmouth figured into New Hampshire’s first recorded executions in 1739
Today's riddle: I’m trying to think of a new cloud joke. 🤔 (Answer below!)
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- Sunday: Not as cold, with a high of 34 and low of 30 degrees.
- Monday: A little morning rain; cloudy, temps: high: 46, low: 25.
- Tuesday: Very windy; much colder, with a high of 26 and low of 17 degrees. ⛄️ Brr!
📰 News we're reading
• City Of Portsmouth: City Announces Parking And Road Closure Details For First Night (Dec. 31, 2025) (patch.com) — Portsmouth residents are being alerted to specific parking and road closure plans for the city’s First Night celebration on December 31, 2025. The city’s announcement aims to help drivers and downtown visitors navigate safely and efficiently while enjoying New Year’s festivities in Portsmouth. 
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• Sat, Dec 27 (nhgazette.com) — Portsmouth appears here in a grim slice of New Hampshire history: the colony’s first recorded executions, when Sarah Simpson and Penelope Kenny were hanged for infanticide in 1739. The piece is a date-based roundup of dark historical moments, ranging from colonial violence against Indigenous people to notorious crimes and cultural controversies across the country.
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- Nichinan Nights Happy Hour
Greater Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce , 15 Middle St. , Portsmouth - 35th Annual GINGERBREAD House Contest and Exhibition
Portsmouth Historical Society , 10 Middle Street , Portsmouth
10:00 am - Cardboard City
Langdon Library , 328 Nimble Hill Road , Newington
2:30 pm - FOOD & BEVERAGE: Happy Hour at Toscana
Greater Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce , 3 Pleasant Street , Portsmouth
4:00 pm - Nichinan Nights Happy Hour
Hotel Thaxter , 15 Middle St. , Portsmouth - 35th Annual GINGERBREAD House Contest and Exhibition
Portsmouth Historical Society , 10 Middle Street , Portsmouth
10:00 am - Junior Science: The Wonders of Water
Children’s Museum of New Hampshire , 6 Washington Street , Dover
2:00 pm - Cardboard City
Langdon Library , 328 Nimble Hill Road , Newington
2:30 pm
Monday December 29
Tuesday December 30
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🗓 Events Nearby
- 35th Annual GINGERBREAD House Contest and Exhibition
Portsmouth Historical Society , 10 Middle Street , Portsmouth
10:00 am - Autumn’s End: A Musical Mystery
Upside Arts , 50 Fox Run Rd #9 , Newington
11:00 am - FOOD: Sunday Brunch at SALT
SALT Kitchen and Bar
11:00 am - Kids + Sound
Cinder And Sound , 216 Lafayette Rd , Rye
11:00 am
Sunday December 28
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🗞 Nearby News
Rye
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