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Portsmouth DPW Hosts Household Hazardous Waste Collection Day on April 13, 2024

March 18, 2024

The Portsmouth Department of Public Works will hold its biannual meeting on Household Hazardous Waste Collection Day on Saturday, April 13, 2024, at the Public Works facility at 680 Peverly Hill Road. Residents of Portsmouth, Greenland and Newington are encouraged to bring household chemicals for safe disposal between 8 am and 12 noon. Proof of residency is required.


Household hazardous waste collections help residents safely dispose of items that can harm their health, the environment and drinking water supplies.

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Hygge! Monday, March 18

March 6, 2024

Hygge for You-gge

Drop in between 10 AM-7 PM

hygge  /ˈho͞oɡə,ˈho͝oɡə/

noun: a quality of coziness and comfortable conviviality that engenders a feeling of contentment or well-being (regarded as a defining characteristic of Danish culture)."

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Film Screening: Oppenheimer, Thursday March 14

March 6, 2024

During World War II, Lt. Gen. Leslie Groves Jr. appoints physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer to work on the top-secret Manhattan Project. Oppenheimer and a team of scientists spend years developing and designing the atomic bomb.