WELL HEY, UPPER VALLEY!
Just a heads up: Daybreak will be offline on Monday. Back on Tuesday, though... Oh, and while we're on housekeeping: I've gotten reports that the last couple of Daybreaks have wound up in some readers' junk/promotions folders. If you haven't already added Daybreak to your contacts list, that should help. Here's how in Gmail. Here's "classic" Yahoo and new Yahoo. But enough of that, let's get to the real stuff. Surface high pressure today should give us a beautiful day once the fog dissipates and the clouds clear out. That'll happen this morning, and then it's mostly sunny the rest of the day. Highs in the high 60s or low 70s, lows tonight into the 40s. New weather late tomorrow. Is it safe to say we've moved solidly into fall?Gabe Brison-Trezise beats 19-time Jeopardy winner, moves on to tonight. Brison-Trezise, who helmed the Hanover High Quiz Bowl team when he was there, last night unseated former rocket scientist and current math teacher Jason Zuffranieri. Zuffranieri had led throughout the show, but guessed wrong on Final Jeopardy. Brison-Trezise wagered all his winnings up to that point and nailed the "question" for: "'The Eighth Wonder,' by composer Alan Johnson and librettist Dennis Watkins, is about this building that opened in 1973."Boosts in ed funding, Westboro cleanup among local effects of new NH budget. Claremont, Canaan, Haverhill, and Lebanon will all see more school funding as a result of the two-year budget signed into law yesterday by Gov. Chris Sununu. Hanover, a property-rich town, will see a slight drop. The budget also sets aside funds to demolish the Westboro Rail Yard's bunkhouse, roundhouse, sandhouse and chimney, for which Lebanon city officials have been lobbying. (VN, sub reqd)Hops grown in Leb? Like, our Leb? NH Mag is out with a guide to craft beers around the state, and Croydon's Polyculture Brewing, barely a year old, is right there in the mix. As Michael Hauptly-Pierce puts it in his piece, "They truly embrace the concept of terroir, from the use of wild microbes to ingredients fresh (minutes) from the farm." Their last beer garden of the season is Saturday, and it'll feature four farmhouse beers, including one brewed from hops harvested in Lebanon.Windsor's Oak Knoll Dairy downsizing. Remember Wednesday's item about Jasper Hill making goat's milk cheese? There's a flip side to that expansion up north: The Hardwick goat dairy supplying the milk bought its 250-goat herd from Oak Knoll, and is about to add 150 more. That's because Oak Knoll founder-owners George Redick and Karen Lindbo are simplifying their lives. They'll keep 150 to 200 goats to provide wholesale milk, but are ending their bottling operation. “No more processing will free us up from a lot of time and consternation," Redick tells the VN's David Corriveau."Know that issues are hard. Don’t expect that there is a simple answer because it probably isn’t going to work the way you think it will." That's VT gubernatorial candidate Rebecca Holcombe of Norwich talking about life in politics with The Dartmouth. The former VT education secretary directed the college's Teacher Education Program for a stint, and sat down with the paper's Jennie Rhodes for an extended Q&A about Vermont's needs, education, and campaigning for office.NH only New England state to see spike in income inequality. The Census Bureau released data yesterday showing that income inequality across the US has hit its highest level since the agency started tracking it five decades ago. While income gaps are widest along both coasts, nine states in all saw spikes in inequality from 2017 to 2018, The Washington Post reports. NH joins Texas, California, Virginia, Alabama, Arkansas, Kansas, Nebraska, and New Mexico.Beloved Boston bookstore reborn in New Hampshire. For three decades, Avenue Victor Hugo, a sprawling shop specializing in rare and used books, drew bibliophiles to Boston's Newbury Street; it shut down in 2004 because of rising rents. Then, in 2016, owner Vincent McCaffrey's daughter and son-in-law bought a house with a large barn in Lee, NH (over by Durham). Now McCaffrey's re-opened, though smaller: 20,000 books instead of the 150,000 he once had. Did you know that Vermont has an aerospace corridor with Québec? Yeah, me neither. And here's what's interesting: It's just expanded to include Connecticut. No word on whether Massachusetts has to move out of the way.Brattleboro struggling with what to do about homelessness, panhandling, drug use. The issues grew more severe this summer. Now the town's added port-a-potties to the streets after police found human waste. It's launched a day-labor program paying homeless people $15 an hour -- which has drawn complaints from library employees who make less than that. Business owners who've spoken up about problems they've encountered have faced a backlash. VPR delves into a fraught, messy situation.Looking for things to do this weekend? NHPR's got a good list of ideas, including Jodi Picoult speaking in Newport and the Barbershop Harmony Society's "Everyone in Harmony" show Saturday at the Leb Opera House, emceed by Karen Liot Hill.Or you could just take to the road, check out the leaves, and visit Vermont's cider houses, breweries, and distilleries. Or, well, some of them. Stowe Today is up with a "Leaf Peeper Brew Route" that includes stops well off the usual beaten path, including Rock Art Brewery in Morrisville and Stowe Cider. Nothing south of Montpelier, though. Maybe they think the leaves don't change color down here?If you like Daybreak and want to help it keep going, here's how:
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It's a benefit dinner and show for JAG Productions, Jarvis Green's Upper Valley-born incubator that's blossomed as a force in nurturing African-American theater, playwrights, and actors. Tonight's southern home cooking by Piecemeal Pies and then performances by singer Tyla Collier, actor and singer Marcus Gladney Jr., and performing artist Stevie Walker-Webb. Tix are not cheap ($150), though they have a few cut-rate tickets available, see link above. Cocktails and dinner at 7 at Newberry Market, show at 8 at the Briggs.
This is seriously good music in a congenial atmosphere that's made for listeners. After two successful forays this summer, Adam Sorscher's effort to craft an ongoing venue in the Lebanon Congregational Church is back. Tonight: acoustic roots-inflected duo Richard Ruane and Beth Duquette; progressive bluegrass/folk/roots quartet Still Hill; and Wyoming-raised singer-songwriter Montey Crummer. Starts at 7:30.
Born in Sri Lanka, schooled at Juilliard, now living in Halifax, Nova Scotia, pianist and composer Wijeratne has performed with Yo Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble, and tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussein. His trio blends genres: classical, world, jazz. With Nick Halley on percussion and Jon Sutters on bass. Starts at 6:30 at the West Claremont Center for Music and the Arts.
Pfeifer (trumpet) and Zimpel (organ) have been on tour playing music by J S Bach, Handel, Sibelius, and Philip Glass. Both grew up in Leipzig, Germany. Pfeifer's now with the Saxon State Opera in Dresden; Zimpel is a Kantor in Markkleeberg-West near Leipzig and a lecturer at the Leipzig Academy of Music. Starts at 7.
Or maybe you don't want music at all, in which case, Science Night in Windsor is tackling human origins. Science Night is an ongoing series at the Windsor Farmers' Exchange in which scientists tell stories centered on a common theme. Tonight, it's how the earth was formed and humans evolved and came to spread over the globe. With Dartmouth profs Mukul Sharma (Earth Sciences), Jerry DeSilva (Anthropology), and Nathaniel Kitchel (Anthro); and grad student Kate Miller (bioanthropology). Starts at 7.
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