GOOD MORNING, UPPER VALLEY!
Still showery for a bit. There's low pressure sliding this way and a cold front on its way out, and the result—for today, at least—is cooler temps and a chance of showers into the afternoon. Highs today around 60, winds from the southeast, and we'll be down to around 40 as things clear out overnight.It's not just the leaves. The sky's had some pretty cool colors, too, as in this lovely iridescent cloud that Ka Rehm so over Hanover last week.Metered parking coming to downtown WRJ. That's after the Hartford Selectboard voted last week to use federal funds to buy and install 16 parking kiosks—like the ones used by Hanover—on a series of downtown streets and in the municipal lot across from the Coolidge block. The large lot behind Northern Stage will remain un-metered, the Valley News's Christina Dolan reports. The idea, town officials tell her, is to encourage turnover; there's a two-hour limit already in place, but it's unenforced. The town plans to install the kiosks next spring or summer.One dead in New London crash. Early yesterday morning, the NH State Police say in a press release, New London and Sunapee police responded to a report of a collision on Little Sunapee Road. They found a Hyundai Elantra had failed to negotiate a curve in the road, struck a utility trailer parked on the side of the road, and burst into flames. The driver, a 27-year-old from California, was taken to DHMC; his passenger, whose name is being withheld, died. "Better than any day care center." That's how Kirsten Teevens on Friday described the Dartmouth football stadium that now bears her late husband's name. "I would let my toddlers loose after practice each day and they were entertained by dozens of adorable and goofy college boys," she told a crowd of about 700 gathered to mark the stadium's naming for Buddy Teevens, the widely revered football coach who died last fall after a biking accident. Kirsten Teevens, college president Sian Beilock, senior linebacker Micah Green, and trustees chair Elizabeth Cahill Lempres all spoke. Here's the video.SPONSORED: Music lovers! Put this Sunday on your calendars for an unforgettable afternoon of harmony and melody! The Barbershop Harmony Society's Hanover chapter presents its 2024 showcase, "We're 'Still the One’ Bringing You Harmony". It features chapter choruses, The North Country Chordsmen, VoxStars, and the sensational 2024 International Silver Medalist Quartet, "FIRST TAKE.” Join us October 13, at 4 pm at Mascoma Valley Regional High School for a performance that will resonate in your hearts long after the final note. Sponsored by the Barbershop Harmony Society-Hanover.In Sharon, voters to weigh in on retail cannabis. It's kind of a rush job, Christina Dolan reports in the VN: Sean Trombly, a Chelsea cannabis grower who's hoping to turn the old Sandy's diner into a retail dispensary, got the question placed on the Oct. 15 ballot; towns in VT have to "opt in" to retail sales by public vote. The challenge: On Oct. 25, the state's Cannabis Control Board imposes a temporary halt to new retail licenses as it deals with over-saturation in the state's bigger markets. If Sharon voters back sales, Trombly says, he's confident he can meet the deadline. Selectboard info session tonight at 6.SPONSORED: Celebrate the Hood Museum of Art's Fall Exhibitions! The Hood's Fall Opening is this Thursday, October 10, 5:00–6:30 pm. Enjoy an evening of fine art, activities, prizes, live music, and refreshments. Come early to pick up a special voucher for a night out with one of our local dining partners while they last! Sponsored by the Hood Museum of Art.Moose freed after taking a dip in Bedford, NH pool. On Thursday morning, police and firefighters in Bedford were called out to a home for a report of a moose in a swimming pool. It was stuck under the pool cover—which officers removed. The moose walked out on its own and headed off to parts unknown. Video at the link.Feds allege drug suspect with NEK ties is behind four VT homicides. In the Calendonian-Record, Mike Donoghue lays out the complex case involving 25-year-old Jose Jusino, who appeared in US District Court in Burlington on Friday on cocaine and fentanyl distribution charges. Jusino allegedly used out-of-state juveniles—hosted by VT residents—to help distribute drugs in VT as part of a sprawling network based in Hartford, CT and Springfield, MA. He was arrested last week in CT. In a court filing, the US Atty's office linked four homicides to the conspiracy. One involved Kayla Wright of Derby, whose body was discovered in February; the other three victims are unnamed.When the VT legislature picks the governor. It doesn't happen often, writes Mark Bushnell in VTDigger, but if no candidate for the office (or any statewide office) receives more than 50 percent of the vote, then the choice gets turned over to lawmakers. That's happened 21 times over the course of the state's history, and in all but four of those cases, the legislature chose the top vote-getter. The first of the four was in 1789, when VT was an independent republic. The most partisan case came in 1853: Bushnell recounts weeks of politicking that unseated incumbent Gov. Erastus Fairbanks despite his plurality.Like a corn maze without the corn: three acres, 3 million seeds, and thousands of hours of weeding. It's the flower maze at Hoolie Flats Farm in E. Calais, filled with amaranth, sunflowers, cosmos, zinnias, and a large number of butterflies, hummingbirds, and bees. For VT Public, radio producer Erica Heilman stopped in to talk with Mike Betit, who along with Erlene Knapp owns Hoolie Flats, about how it all came about. After the hard knocks of farming over the past few years, Betit says, the maze is a "backstop." One visitor has a different word: "Magical."The Monday Jigsaw. It's a covered bridge. And it's what Route 5 used to pass through in the hamlet of Pompanoosuc, writes the Norwich Historical Society's Cam Cross. Though bridges had been on the site earlier, this one was built in 1866 and torn down in 1954, "after the Union Village Dam raised the river level dangerously close to the bridge deck," Cam writes. Here's a history of Pompanoosuc.
Heads Up
So, this is interesting. Windsor's public library got a $4K grant for a series of four workshops to give participants storytelling, writing, poetry and interviewing skills—and then to send them out to interview other Windsorites and collect their stories. Things get going tonight at 6:30 at the Windsor Welcome Center, led by storytellers and actors (and clown) Marv Klassen-Landis, Ham Gillett, and Michael Zerphy.
The Fully Celebrated Orchestra, which is based mostly in Boston, is kicking off a year-long Coast Jazz residency with a gig tonight at Sawtooth Kitchen in Hanover. The free-jazz quintet features saxophonist/composer Jim Hobbs, bassist Timo Shanko, cornetist (and Coast director) Taylor Ho Bynum, drummer Luther Gray, and guitarist Ian Ayers. 8 pm.
And kicking things off in this space this week...
For the last few years, Norwich singer-songwriter and local music teacher Lisa Piccirillo has been working on a new album,
Radiate
, a followup to her first album from over a decade and a half ago, before she took a detour through jobs, marriage, and motherhood. She's holding a release party at the Briggs on Oct. 19, and has just released the official lyrics video to one of the songs on the album, "Enough".
See you tomorrow.
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