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Residents urge cemetery repairs and expanded youth programming at Portsmouth City Council meeting
Summary
Public commenters asked council to repair the 1850s Oakrove/Portlock Cemetery wall and iron fencing and called for year-round youth engagement; council members directed staff to prepare options and highlighted Portsmith United programs for spring break.
Several Portsmouth residents used public comment on March 10 to raise neighborhood preservation and youth-programming concerns.
Lindseay Jones, a West Park View resident, urged the city to repair and preserve a brick wall that runs along Pennsylvania Avenue at Oakrove/Portlock Cemetery and to maintain iron fencing along London Boulevard. Jones said the wall — constructed in the 1850s — is deteriorating, has experienced dumping and vandalism, and provides a historic boundary and a sense of security for the neighborhood. "The wall at present…
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