WELL GOOD MORNING, UPPER VALLEY!
This light overnight snow? It's due to end right around the time you're reading this. It'll get sunnier throughout the day, high of 27 in mid-afternoon. Get outside a little, eh? Treat your body to some Vitamin D.Claremont public official who harassed resident on Facebook avoids censure. Back in December, city council member Jonathan Stone took to social media to attack Trish Killay and her husband for questioning the constitutionality of religious displays in a city park. His friends piled on. The council last night defeated a censure resolution.Hanover wants to give up control of Lebanon land. Did you know that Hanover has an easement on land on Indian Ridge, by DHMC... in Lebanon? Me neither. Now the Hanover Trails Committee wants to give it back. The kicker? Lebanon doesn't want it either. They're looking for a third party to take over.NH House agrees to allow schools to create gun-free zones. It passed comfortably, but not overwhelmingly. And things got heated. One gun-rights legislator's comment that the measure's backers will have blood on their hands drew a rebuke from the Speaker.While they were at it, NH state reps also backed recreational marijuana. And to boost education funding for struggling school districts. And a pile of other things.Bernie's campaign gets a shakeup. His chief DC ad operative was peeved that Sanders created an announcement video on his own. You know what this means? Campaign season has truly begun.Do you ever stop at Red Hen Baking Co. for, oh, something gooey on your way north toward Montpelier or Burlington? Of course you do. Did you know there are people out there who go for the hummus?"Working," the stage musical of Studs Terkel's oral history, opens at the Briggs tomorrow night. And David Corriveau dives deep into what We The People, the troupe behind it, is trying to say about the state of modern working life. (VN: Subscription required)"Science Pub" is moving to Salt Hill in West Leb. For seven years, it's been a monthly, no-jargon-needed gathering over pints to learn about the science behind everything from music to black holes. Tonight? Quantum tech and its applications. NEED OTHER PLANS TONIGHT?Ari Hest will be at the Flying Goose Pub in New London. The singer/songwriter is probably best known for his fruitful collaboration with Judy Collins, but he's a troubadour in his own right. You can decide if you like him here. He starts at 8, and you'll need reservations (603-526-6899).Buyer & Cellar at Northern Stage. Struggling actor takes job in Barbra Streisand's personal basement mini-mall. The play is fiction. The mini-mall is not. Starring Eric Love, who plays the actor, his boyfriend, Streisand, and any number of other characters. In previews tonight and tomorrow, no reviews yet. So you can boast to your friends, "Oh that? Saw it already."Have a lovely day out there! See you tomorrow.
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