AH IT'S YOU IS IT, FRIDAY?
Hot air's moving in from the south, and a moist air mass is setting up over us, and the result will be what the rest of the East has been experiencing for the last few days: It's going to be really hot and really humid for the next two days. Highs in the low 90s, but the humidity will make it feel like high 90s today, low 100s tomorrow. There's uncertainty in the models, but thunderstorms are possible in the late afternoon. Be careful out there, will ya?
The link is to a brief notice in the
Standard
; it promises more. The Woodstock PD notes
that Swanson was the father of Sgt. Joe Swanson, and that he "was a champion for our agency and always strongly supported our mission of public safety."
"I had just delivered some furniture on the corner and I punched in my next delivery on the GPS and it said 'Turn right here' and I thought 'Great! This is going to be easy'," the driver told Eric Francis. The truck was carrying 50-lb sacks of flour and crates of mail; it took Sabil & Sons three hours yesterday to clear things away. Francis has the story and plenty of pics.
As you'll remember, the hospital filed for bankruptcy in June. The governments wants a "patient care ombudsman" in place to monitor services while it works through proceedings. The hospital points out this would cost it up to $40,000 a month, and that the money should be spent on patient care. A court hearing's set for today in Rutland.
That's Eddie Moran, who owns Taco's Tacos, the little green food truck that sets up by Colburn Park, on one of the challenges of running a food truck in the Upper Valley. Kelly Burch has a piece on the ins and outs of the local food-truck scene, with lots from Moran and Brad Pirkey of Chef Brad's Crazyside, in
Enterprise
(no paywall). Did you know there've been food trucks around here since the 1940s
?
The federal agency is handing out $2.3 million to 21 small businesses around the country; Creare's one of only two in New England to land one. Its project is to create a wearable, low-weight, high accuracy, air-quality measurement tool to measure fire pollutants. It will be used to monitor firefighters' and downwind communities' exposure.
That's the gist of a big NHPR investigation. They wanted to follow how money's affecting public policy in the state. What they found are "systemic deficiencies in lobbyists’ financial disclosure statements, including multiple instances where lobbyists filed reports late or failed to file them at all." Name an interest, it's probably got a lobbyist: librarians, nurse anesthetists, snowmobilers, tax collectors, beer brewers, golf course superintendents, towns and cities....
Yes, the libraries in Leb and the Haven in WRJ will be open and air-conditioned. But the
Union Leader
has some other suggestions. It'll be close to 70 atop Mt. Washington (not far from its record high of 72, btw). There's Soleil's Salt Cave in Exeter, a balmy low 70s. Santa's Village in Jefferson has its water park. But for that psychological edge, don't you really have to head for the Polar Caves in Rumney?
They passed. The legislature's administrative rules committee approved them yesterday on a party-line vote, putting New Hampshire in the unusual position of leading the nation on an environmental issue: the first state to mandate that local water systems, landfills and wastewater plants test and treat for four PFAS chemicals, with stringent limits.
That's the gist of a profile of the Loon Preservation Committee in the
Concord Monitor
. Their most fearsome predator? Lead fishing tackle, which accounted for almost half of documented loon deaths over the last three decades, and which the committee has made its sworn enemy. The good news: 3 times as many loon pairs in the state as in 1975. The bad: still only half their historical level.
It's in
Slate
, and the sub-hed says it all: "On one side: a decorated literary writer. On the other: a retired dentist who wrote verse about sex with Condoleezza Rice. Guess whom the governor chose?" Longtime readers will remember that the literary writer, Jennifer Militello, was the choice of the Poetry Society, which traditionally taps the laureate. This year, Gov. Sununu has his own pick: retired dentist and former Suffolk Co, NY poet laureate Daniel Moran. Unclear how this is going to end.
IT'S A FRIDAY NIGHT, YOU DON'T HAVE A/C AT HOME, WHAT'CHA GOING TO DO?
Craven's kind of a one-man cultural force in the Northeast Kingdom, but he's best known for his films about North Country life through his adaptations of Howard Frank Mosher novels, including
Northern Borders
and
Where the Rivers Flow North
. His new film is sci-fi noir, set in a near future where people who are down on their luck can get genetically modified to do jobs no one else wants to do. So what happens when a couple of these "Mungos" go rogue? Craven will be there for a Q & A afterward. Starts at 7:30, in Spaulding.
It's the young performers in ArtisTree's musical theater summer camp, taking on the ambitious Sondheim fractured fairytale about wishes and choices and how they don't always turn out the way we'd hope. The show starts at 6 at the Grange Theater in S. Pomfret.
Russ Cohen will be talking (and showing) wild edibles at D'Acres of New Hampshire, in Dorchester. When he was a sophomore in high school in Weston, MA, Cohen took a mini-course on "Edible Botany" offered by the bio department. It became his calling: He's been teaching foraging and wild foods for 42 years. Here's your chance to learn what to snack on while you wander around outdoors (once it cools down). Runs from 7-9 pm.Or maybe just want to get in your air-conditioned car for an hour and then sit in air conditioned splendor listening to The Suitcase Junket. That's Matt Lorenz, who has somehow managed to turn dried animal bones, thrift store cutlery, gas cans, baby shoes, a suitcase, and a dumpster-dove guitar into a one-man band setup. Also, he throat sings. His new album, Mean Dog, Trampoline, was produced by Los Lobos sax player Steve Berlin. At the Capitol Center for the Arts in Concord, starts at 8.Whatever you do, just make it through the weekend. Temps cool Monday. See you then.
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