I Love Portsmouth, VA

03/20/2025

RIP George Bell

ILPV sends our sincere condolences and prayers to George Bell’s family and loved ones. 🙏🏾🕊️

02/06/2025

08/18/2024

Your is needed!!

08/10/2024

seven Olympic athletes were born in Portsmouth, Virginia?

1. Mary Sears (Swimming) - 1939
2. John Cist (Track & Field) - 1954
3. Yogi Hightower - (Hockey) 1961
4. Latasha Colanda-Richardson (Track & Field) - 1976
5. Michael Douglass (Shooting) - 1976
6. LaShawn Merritt (Track & Field) - 1986
7. Kuanitra Hollingsworth (Basketball) - 1988

07/05/2024

Seeing Double No Trouble For This Couple

Title continues:... Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Gambrell, Jr., of 623 Jefferson St., Portsmouth, were all smiles as they posed with their brood - ever increasing by two’s. The young couple - he’s 25 and she’s 22 - can boast of four sets of twins. Floyd Dee and Fred Lee, Joyce Ann and Doris Ann (foreground), Kathleen Lavera and Katherine Lavern (seated with papa), and Carol Linda and Carl Leonard, only five weeks old. The two "singles" standing back of Floyd and Fred are John Marshall and Bobby Lewis Gambrell. John Marshall, the oldest, is seven. Papa Gambrell is privately employed at the Naval Base.

Photograph appeared in the column "Colored News" in the Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch and the Portsmouth Star newspaper, August 25, 1960. Part of the Lee F. Rodgers photograph collection housed in the Portsmouth Public Library.

Originally posted by Larry Jones on June 25, 2017 in I Love Portsmouth, VA’s group

06/20/2024

Applications are now being accepted for the 2024 Youth Fire Academy. Information below!

06/09/2024

PRHA TO OPEN THE HOUSING CHOICE VOUCHER-MAINSTREAM WAITLIST – June 10th Housing Choice Voucher Program (HCV) –

Criteria: Non-elderly persons (18 and not yet 62 years of age) with disabilities WHO ARE:

✅transitioning out of institutional or other segregated settings or at serious risk of institutionalization
✅currently experiencing homeless
✅previously experienced homelessness and currently a client in a permanent supportive housing or rapid rehousing project
✅at risk of being homeless.

⌨️📲Applications are available ONLINE ONLY and can be accessed by computer or smartphone at
https://prha.myhousing.com/?abandon=False

The waitlist will open Monday, June 10th, at 9 a.m.
The waitlist will close Monday, June 10th, at 7 p.m.
Duplicate applications will not be accepted.

Applicants meeting the specific criteria will be placed on the preliminary waitlist using the lottery system.

Applications will be assigned a number and the lottery system will randomly select applicants for placement on the preliminary list.

Upon acceptance of an application, applicants will be given a confirmation number. Please print or document this number as it will be used to identify your application.

Results from the lottery draw will be posted Thursday, June 20th, 2024.

05/31/2024

Sunset Thursdays Returns!

Location: Festival Park

Description: Enjoy Portsmouth's FREE after-work summer concert series sponsored by the Department of Parks and Recreation.
(Thursdays ONLY)

Time: 6:30pm- 9:00pm

*Sunset Thursdays Schedule*

June 13th Janitors
June 20th Revelation
June 27th The Original Rhondels
July 11th Better By Tuesdays
July 18th BrassWind
July 25th The Gentlemen and Their Lady
August 1st Hot Cakes
August 8th SynHERgi
August 15th People’s Choice Band
August 22nd Slapnation
August 29th 2nd Wynd

05/29/2024

Congratulations 🎉