GOOD MORNING, UPPER VALLEY!
Heads up: No Daybreak tomorrow. Back on Thursday with a light, CoffeeBreak version.And also heads up: In case tees and tanks aren't cutting it for you as the temps drop, there's now seasonal swag in Strong Rabbit's Daybreak store: long-sleeve tees, hoodies, and sweatshirts. So you can be warm and cool.A near carbon copy of yesterday. Well, maybe it'll be a tad warmer today and there'll likely be fog at first, but still: Things start cold then warm into the low 60s. There will be high clouds around but we should still get some of that inviting fall sun. Down to the mid or upper 30s tonight before things start to warm up tomorrow.Two Ascutney views... both in the early-morning light.
This is the mountain from Tinkham Hill in Hartland, bathed in red, a small halo of cloud at its summit, by Neal Bastas. "No filter," he writes, "just nature."
And here's Al Keiller's shot from W. Windsor, Ascutney in the foreground, Sunapee way off in the distance.
WCAX story "spread a wildfire of bigotry and hatred." The mother of the transgender student at the center of the Randolph Union girls' volleyball team story spoke to VTDigger's Auditi Guha about the aftermath of WCAX's piece on events at the school. Her child and family have been bombarded on social media and in the news for what she contends is an inaccurate story: She tells Guha that far from making an "inappropriate comment" in the locker room, her child was bullied and the school district is investigating. Supt. Layne Millington says the locker room was shut down to "ensure student safety." WCAX's news director says he's "unaware of any factual errors."SPONSORED: You can improve someone's life right now! Hearts You Hold is a VT-based nonprofit that supports immigrants, migrants, and refugees in a concrete way. We believe that only the individuals themselves know what they want or need and that it is critical to take the time to ask them. Currently, there are many requests waiting to be funded, from winter coats to car seats to gas cards. Some are from folks in VT and NH, others from people all over the US. Hit the link above, pick an item (or more) to fund, and make a difference now! Sponsored by Hearts You Hold.A correction: In yesterday's item on Dartmouth's efforts to come to terms with a series of deaths, I gave a June date for Alex Simpson's death from cancer; she died in August. And while we're here, it's worth remembering that the college's recent deaths should not be lumped together, except as a reason for sadness and mourning. In all, two undergrads, a grad student, two recent alums, and two faculty or staff have died recently for a variety of reasons: cancer, a heart attack, an accident, "natural causes," suicide, and in one case, an unpublicized cause.Developers propose three-building, 162-unit complex for Enfield off Route 4. The one- and two-bedroom apartments would go up on the 77-acre Laramie Farms property on Route 4 and Maple Street, reports the Valley News's Liz Sauchelli. The land has been owned since 2005 by brothers John and Michael Dibitetto, and John Dibitetto is one of the developers behind this newest proposal, which could add some 500 residents to the 4,500-resident town, Sauchelli writes. The planning board, which met last week to hear about the project, has yet to see a formal application."A space where people can feel at home and everyone is welcome." When he was at Hanover High, Ian Struckhoff and his friends would "bounce from the Howe Library to the school art room to Dartmouth computer labs to Main Street, but never quite felt at home anywhere." That after-school experience planted the seed for The Fourth Place, the new café, gaming, and "geek culture" spot he's opening—he hopes by the end of this month— in Hanover Park. In Rose Terami's Q&A on GreaterUpperValley.com, Struckhoff explains what people who venture in will find, including Friday Night Magic.SPONSORED: God's Country at the Hop! Hanover-born director Julian Higgins’ first feature film, God’s Country, takes place in a remote college town. Sound familiar? In this riveting thriller, Thandiwe Newton is a Black professor who is drawn into an escalating battle of wills with two trespassing hunters. God’s Country is a race-conscious modern Western with gorgeous cinematography and astounding performances. The film is screening at the Hop on Friday, October 7 at 7 pm. A live, in-person discussion with the director follows. Sponsored by the Hop.Randolph convenience store robbed, state police looking for suspect. Early Saturday morning, a man wearing a black hoodie, red mask, and work boots entered The Barn convenience store just off the Randolph I-89 exit and demanded money from the register. Police released blurry surveillance footage yesterday. No one was injured during the robbery, the VSP press release says. This is the second early-morning robbery at the store in two weeks, and the VN reports that the VSP is investigating whether the robberies are connected."If you are this careless, if you show this blatant disregard for human safety, there’s a consequence for that." That's NH Fish & Game's Col. Kevin Jordan talking to the Boston Globe's Shannon Larson about the "horror show" of a rescue officers and volunteers had to carry out this summer to get an entirely unprepared hiker off a cliff face where he was trapped in the Whites. He and his companion had been so heedless and placed rescuers in such danger that Jordan decided to levy criminal charges. Larson details the rescue and the debate over how to respond to rising cases of irresponsible hiking the charges have sparked. (Paywall, Boston.com synopsis here.)NH says it has started offering interpretation services to professional license-seekers, but they "remain unreliable." Let's say you're NHPR reporter Gabriela Lozada, following up on this story about how language barriers make the state licensing process for barbers and others difficult, and the barber and apprentice you're reporting on ask your translation help because when they visit the state licensing office, there's no one else to translate. How would you report that? Lozada tells the story of Manchester barber Andres Rodriguez and his struggle to understand what the office needed from him.It’s like Titans vs. Olympians in this crazy lightning-storm photo. If you saw this scene with your own eyes, you’d swear the gods were locking horns. An amazing image though it is, according to My Modern Met’s Jessica Stewart, much of its otherworldly effect comes from the fact that it’s a composite of 400 photographs taken over a six-minute period. One evening while a storm raged, Spanish photographer Marc Sellés Llimós climbed a hill beyond his village overlooking the Pyrenees. By using long exposure speed, he was able to capture both the lightning show and a whooshing illusion called star trails.The Tuesday Vordle. There won't be a Daybreak tomorrow, but if you've signed up for the email reminder, you'll find it in your inbox bright and early.
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Lebanon High School is bringing back its Day of Work after a pandemic hiatus. If you're looking to hire students to rake leaves, stack wood, put your garden to bed, clean out your garage, or any of those other tasks you keep swearing you'll get to this weekend, dang it, you can hire them and help raise money for activities at the school. You don't have to live in Lebanon, though they'd prefer towns within about a 20-minute drive. You can request jobs here until Oct. 16. The day itself is Oct. 21.
Today at 1 in the Community Room at the Montshire, the Hanover Garden Club zooms in Marta McDowell for her talk, "Unearthing the Secret Garden." McDowell, who teaches landscape history and horticulture at the New York Botanical Garden, will explore author Frances Hodgson Burnett's life, work, and passion for gardening, as well as the ways in which The Secret Garden has inspired generations of gardeners. No charge.
This evening at 7, the Norwich Bookstore brings in writer and cultural historian Nancy Marie Brown, who lives in Vermont and writes about the history of the Vikings and of Iceland. Her new book, Looking for the Hidden Folk, looks to history, science, religion, and art to explore Icelanders' belief in elves and the ways in which those legends inform reverence for nature and contemporary environmentalism there.
Also at 7, the 2022 tour of "Nights of Grief and Mystery" rolls into Fable Farm in Royalton. It's a collaboration between author and storyteller Stephen Jenkinson, who early in his career worked extensively with dying people, and musician and bandleader Gregory Hoskins, both Candian, and it blends music, spoken word, and... But maybe it's best to let them describe it. "We aren’t poets, maybe, but the evenings are poetic. They are musical and grave and raucous and stilling, which probably means they are theatrical. They are nights in which love letters to life are written and read aloud. There’s some boldness in them. They have that tone." Or as the Portsmouth (UK) News put it a couple of months ago, "This is definitely not the kind of show where you can chat to your mate while the band plays on.
And the Tuesday poem...
is a field as long as the butterflies say it is a field with their flight it takes a long timeto see like light or sound or language to arriveand keep arriving we have morethan six sense dialect and iam still adjusting to time the distance and its permanence i have found my shortcuts and landmarks to place where i first took form in the field
—"the poem is a dream telling you its time" by Marwa Helal,
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