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Portsmouth by the numbers

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City departments | Utilities | Water & Sewage | Libraries | Things to do | Traffic cameras | Schools | Hospitals | Courts | Tax rates | Important numbers | Other services

 

TAX RATES

(per $100 assessed value)

Vehicles, $5

Real estate, $1.21

 

ESSENTIAL NUMBERS

Emergency, 911

Non-emergency calls to police, fire and medical, 393-5300

Disaster preparation/emergency management office, 393-8551

 

 

HOSPITALS

Bon Secours Maryview Medical Center, 3636 High St.,398-2200

Portsmouth Naval Medical Center (active and retired military personnel and dependents), 953-5000

 

 

UTILITIES

Dominion Virginia Power: 1-888-667-3000

Columbia Gas: 1-800-543-8911

Cox Communications

  • Digital telephone, high-speed Internet and digital cable: 224-1111
  • Repairs: 224-2222

Verizon Communications

  • Telephone: 954-6222
  • Telephone repair: 1-800-275-2355
  • High-speed Internet sales and support:  1-800-567-6789
  • FiOS digital TV and FiOS Internet sales: 1-888-933-3331
  • FiOS digital TV and FiOS Internet support: 1-888-553-1555

 

WATER AND SEWERAGE

393-8524

Emergency water/sewage, all/after hours, 393-8561

Trash collection: 393-8663

Recycling: 393-5342

 

OTHER SERVICES

Pet license: 393-8651, 393-8199

Health Department, 1701 High St., 393-8585

Social Services,1701 High St.,405-1800

Voting information: 393-8644

Driver's license,  Division of Motor Vehicles: 1-800-435-5137

Public transportation Hampton Roads Transit:  222-6100

 

 

CITY GOVERNMENT

Web site: portsmouthva.gov

City manager

Kenneth L. Chandler, 393-8641

Contacting City Council

Mail: P.O. Box 820, Portsmouth, VA 23705

Phone, 393-8639

Fax, 393-5378

 

COURTS

General District Court

Civil:  393-8624

Criminal: 393-8681

Traffic:  393-8506

Juvenile & Domestic: 393-8851

Commonwealth's attorney: Earle C. Mobley, 393-8581

 

PUBLIC LIBRARIES

Web site: www.portsmouthpubliclibrary.org

Main library, 601 Court St., 393-8501

Branch libraries

Churchland, 3215 Academy Ave., 686-2538

Cradock, 28 Prospect Pkwy., 393-8759

Manor, 1401 Elmhurst Lane, 465-2916

 

 

SCHOOLS

Superintendent: Dr. David C. Stuckwisch, 393-8742

Clerk of the School Board 393-8200

 

ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS

Brighton, 393-8870

Churchland Academy, 686-2527

Churchland Elementary, 686-2523

Churchland Primary and Intermediate, 686-2519

Douglass Park,  393-8646

Hodges Manor, 465-2921

James Hurst, 558-2811

Lakeview, 465-2901

Olive Branch, 465-2926

Parkview,393-8647

Simonsdale, 465-2917

John Tyler, 393-8879

Victory, 393-8806

Westhaven, 393-8855

 

 

MIDDLE SCHOOLS

Churchland, 686-2512

Cradock, 393-8788

William E. Waters,  558-2813

 

 

HIGH SCHOOLS

Churchland, 686-2500

I.C. Norcom, 393-5442

Woodrow Wilson, 465-2907

 

 

SPECIALTY SCHOOLS

Cradock Career and Technical Center, 393-8822.

DAC Center for Learning, 393-8791

Mount Hermon Preschool Center, 393-8825

New Directions Center, 393-8728

Emily Spong Preschool Center, 393-5247

EXCEL Campus,  465-2958



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