GOOD MORNING, UPPER VALLEY!
And welcome to CoffeeBreak. This is the stand-in for Daybreak until Aug. 23—just a playful little diversion until the grownup version returns. Well, it's Friday, so obviously it's time for Lost Woods. I'll be as curious as you are to see what the crew's up to. In case you're a new reader, every week Lebanon author and illustrator DB Johnson (Henry Hikes to Fitchburg and other classics) chronicles the doings in Lost Woods. Scroll right to move on to the next panel or left to catch up on previous weeks. If you've missed a week (or more), check out the archive and synopsis behind the three little parallel lines at the top right.And it's also time for the News Quiz. Each Friday, Hanover's Kevin McCurdy and Bill Miles test your knowledge of what's gone on around the region that week—and ask your opinion on a burning question or two.And let's see.... Oh, right! A bald-eagle cold case, solved. This is beyond intriguing. Danielle D'Auria is a state wildlife biologist in Maine. In 2019, she got a call from a game warden who'd found a dead bald eagle floating in Highland Lake with what appeared to be a bullet wound. Her necropsy suggested otherwise, so she sent the eagle corpse off to the National Wildlife Health Center in WI for more thorough investigation. Sure enough: The eagle, which was found near a dead loon chick, had been stabbed to death by a loon. "You can use your imagination..." D'Auria writes in a blog post from last year.
Here's one that hasn't made it into Daybreak yet... Jane Marczweski is a 30-year-old vocalist who sings by the name of Nightbirde. She showed up on America's Got Talent earlier this year and pretty much blew both the judges and the audience away—in part because of the quality of her singing (and her original song, "It's Okay") and in part because of her personal circumstances: She's been fighting metastatic cancer. "It’s important that everyone knows that I’m so much more than the bad things that happen to me," she told the judges. "You can’t wait until life isn’t hard anymore before you decide to be happy." (Thanks, ML!)See you Monday.
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