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Holiday Lights, Festivals And Celebrations Fill The Portsmouth Calendar
Outside of religious and cultural celebrations, there are holiday light shows, parades, fairs, and festivals to attend.

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Outside of religious and cultural celebrations, there are holiday light shows, parades, fairs, and festivals to attend.

Also: Christmas tree lightings; Hobbit fest; play auditions; 3D workshop; winter lanterns; Oreo taste-test challenge; knit snowman workshop.
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The season will run from Monday, Jan. 5, through Saturday, Feb. 14.
Salem man arrested on assault charges; woman faces assault, child endangerment charges; cruelty to animals incidents at Concord Gardens.
National Weather Service forecasters have increased their snow totals for the Granite State — and say more snow is on the horizon.
See the latest announcement from the City of Portsmouth.
Update: A “hazardous weather outlook” alert was issued for the Granite State concerning the first significant snowfall of the season.
A driver in a RAV4 accused the driver of a Juke with Arkansas plates of punching him in the face and fleeing toward Pembroke Saturday.
Also: Crashes; fugitive sought; state rep faces nonconsensual dissemination charge; vehicle plunges into pond; Christmas happenings.
Hundreds of people, including Santa Claus, were downtown for the annual Christmas tree lighting at the Statehouse and Everett Arena.
Also: Car pulled out of pond; no one hurt in apartment fire; driver flees after turnpike crash; Powerball at $719M; fugitive sought.
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Last police contact with James Paul Andrews was in New Jersey, investigators say; he also has ties to Pennsylvania.
After sun on Saturday and rain and snow on Sunday, expect chilly temperatures and possibly a major storm on Tuesday, the NWS says.
Dover Road in Chichester was closed for several hours after an elderly driver crossed into oncoming traffic near Bailey Road on Thursday.
The Merrimack County Savings Bank on North Main Street was robbed on Friday. Cops quickly arrested Mark Hinton on Rumford Street.
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See the latest announcement from the City of Concord.
Plus: Crash on Pleasant Street in Concord sends one to the hospital while a car crashed into a hydrant in the city’s West End neighborhood.