WELL HI, UPPER VALLEY!
Sunny again today, though cooler. A weak cold front moved through yesterday evening "with little fanfare," the weather folks report. Now high pressure is stopping by, but just for today and tonight. We should see mostly sunny skies, highs in the mid/high 50s. Lows dropping to the mid/low 30s by around dawn tomorrow, below freezing in the valleys.Canaan crash kills one, injures three. The collision between a sedan and an SUV occurred on Route 118 a bit north of Cardigan Mountain Road yesterday. It shut the roadway down from 11:30 until around 4:30 yesterday afternoon. Details and names hadn't been released as of last night, and NH state police are investigating. (VN, sub reqd)AVA Gallery to get a new executive director. She's Heidi Reynolds, who has been exhibitions manager since June and will take over from interim (and former) director Bente Torjusen on Nov. 1. A photographer, Reynolds worked in development at both the Montshire and Northern Stage before AVA. "Heidi’s natural leadership qualities, her dedication to the role of the arts in the Upper Valley community and her commitment to the future of AVA made her the clear choice," the board says in its announcement.Windsor County State's Atty David Cahill opts to become stay-at-home dad. Cahill, who has two young daughters, will leave his high-profile prosecutorial role on Jan. 12; he notified Gov. Phil Scott on Friday. “It is very important to me to do my best job possible, both as a state’s attorney and a parent,” he tells the VN's Jordan Cuddemi. "I don’t want to have to make that choice.” So far three attorneys in the office — Ward Goodenough, Heidi Remick, and Karen Oelschlaeger — say they're interested in replacing Cahill.
A swimming otter? Nessie? Whatever, it's definitely not your humdrum old V. Herb Swanson, former Associated Press and Agence France-Presse photographer, sends in this pic of geese flying over Lyndonville, VT on their way south. It may be a still photo, but those geese are moving. Thanks, Herb!"Just twist the knife a little more on this line." Those were the directions Norwich resident Gordon Clapp got — for lots of lines — in his Broadway role as J. Edgar Hoover in The Great Society. The play opened Oct. 1 and is a densely packed, highly political history lesson about LBJ and his struggle to see the Civil Rights Act passed. The link takes you to a Yahoo! Build video of an interview with Clapp and fellow actor Marc Kudisch (Richard J. Daley). Two Broadway actors, steeped in politics, talking politics. (Thanks for the tip, CA!)Mars sedimentologist. That's Frances Rivera-Hernandez, a post-doc in Earth sciences at Dartmouth. "Most -ologists who study sediment spend their days wallowing in sand and silt and pebbles and rocks," the Monitor's David Brooks explains. "But Rivera-Hernandez’s study material is an average of 140 million miles away, so wallowing isn’t possible." Now she's developed a new method to study Mars's watery past using the Curiosity rover's laser.Norwich sees some of its money. As you no doubt remember, it lost $250,000 in an email scam. Now $80,000 of that has been recovered from a bank that "held the potential scammer's account," in the VN's words. The town is hoping to secure the remaining $170K from its insurer, the VT League of Cities and Towns. Cory Booker headed back to the area. It's been easy to feel ignored by the Dem presidential candidates of late, but the NJ senator and former Newark mayor will be at the Top of the Hop on Sunday at 6:30 pm.Meanwhile, Mark Sanford was at Dartmouth last week, and sat down with The Dartmouth. The former SC governor and US Rep is, of course, one of three Republicans challenging Pres. Trump for the nomination. "I think...we’re a better Republican Party if we have a robust debate of ideas, whether I’m the eventual nominee or someone else is," he says.Your window for finally getting around to the Aidron Duckworth Museum is closing. The museum in Meriden will shut its doors at the end of the month. Dedicated to the work of the British sculptor-turned-painter who moved to Meriden in 1976, it's holding one last exhibition of his work, along with "a sampling" of works by other artists who've exhibited there over the years.VT's only two sites with Native American petroglyphs are not that far downriver. They're on the shore of the Connecticut in Bellows Falls, and in Brattleboro, where the West and the Connecticut meet. The Brattleboro site was buried under 15 feet of water and 2 1/2 feet of sand and silt after the Vernon Dam was built, but VPR was there when archeologist Annette Spaulding led a group to the site.Some Vermont schools are watching what kids do online, in bid to prevent violence. VTDigger's Lola Duffort sent public records requests to all 52 school superintendents in the state asking whether they have contracts with social-media monitoring services. Most don't, but 13 use services that either scan social media or school-sponsored email. “Surveillance almost always begets more surveillance. It’s never enough, right?” says Amy Collier, associate provost for digital learning at Middlebury College. Farmhouse, party house, yoga studio, 100 apple trees, 21 acres: $3.65 million. Just some West Windsor for-sale eye candy... If you like Daybreak and want to help it keep going, here's how:
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. Co-founder of The American Prospect and of the Economic Policy Institute, longtime columnist for
Business Week
, one-time Washington editor for the
Village Voice
, progressive economic writer for too many pubs to name.... He'll be talking about his new book,
Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism?
Rockefeller 01 at Dartmouth, starting at 4:30.
Or you could finally give vent to your inner mixmaster and head to Claremont Makerspace for "Intro to Audio Mixing."
Kiel Alarcon, who co-founded Windsor's What Doth Life? (and spearheaded its recent local-music festival) will be showcasing tips and tricks to clean up live audio tracks, mix audio levels, and learn your way around a Digital Audio Workstation. It would help to have played around with Garage Band or Audacity. Runs from 6 to 8. There are also a couple of spots left in the
tonight.
Brownsville's Erik Boedtker's playing at Windsor Station, Jakob Breitbach's leading his weekly Tuesday acoustic jam at The Filling Station in WRJ, Anthony Santora's got his Irish traditional session going on Salt Hill Lebanon, it's open mic at Colatina Exit.... Link takes you to all those, plus what's going on the rest of this week.
Flee for the woods;go off to the mountains;wash out your mouth;go live in a cabin;touch the wet earthwith your bare hands;nourish your bodywith bitter roots;drink from the rocks;sleep on the frost;restore your clothswith water and salts;speak with the birdsand rise with dawn.
— From "You Want Me Daybreak" by Argentinean poet Alfonsina Storni
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