GOOD MORNING, UPPER VALLEY!
Why, yes, it does look like snow's on its way. A lot of places to our south and east are getting a mix, so let's count ourselves lucky. Here, 2 to 5 inches, depending on where you are. Temps in the mid- to high 20s, wind from the northeast in the afternoon. Things will end overnight, until an Arctic front moves in. But we can talk about that tomorrow.Still North Books and Bar to open on Thursday. It's been a year since the Dartmouth Bookstore shut its doors, leaving used bookstore Left Bank Books as the only game in Hanover. But after months of construction, says Susan Apel in her Artful blog, Allie Levy on Thursday will launch the books part of Still North, "a different kind of bookstore and community space in the UV...where people can browse and buy books while sharing a cup of coffee or a drink and snacks." Its entrance is on Allen Street. (Click "Let me read it first" at the link.)"To me, reading is a form of writing... I don't know what I would do if I couldn't read." That's novelist, short-story writer, and writing prof Peter Orner in a Dartmouth News profile. Orner's new collection, Maggie Brown & Others, is landing on all sorts of Best Of lists this month. "I always remind my students that this is about connecting to a reader as a storyteller. On the first day, students come in and say, 'I've never done this before.' I'm like, 'How many stories have you told today, before you walked in the door?'"Heroin bust inside WRJ courthouse. Yesterday, a Hartford Village man was picked up for driving with an expired license and outstanding warrants after a routine traffic stop at the Exit 12 off-ramp in Wilder. It got worse. When he was patted down at arraignment, the arresting state trooper found a cigarette pack with 74 wax heroin bags inside. That was a “not insignificant amount of drugs,” the judge said, and ordered him held.Leb to consider resettling refugees, but they may not come. You may remember that NH has "opted in" to refugee resettlement per a new Trump administration requirement, but has left it up to cities and towns whether to get on board. The Leb City Council will take up the issue tomorrow night. Even if it agrees, the state's refugee coordinator says the city is too far from the two nonprofits that coordinate resettlement in NH, and may lack the resources to be successful. (VN)Norwich stabbing suspect to plead guilty. Amanda Zanis, the Danbury, NH woman who was arrested on attempted murder charges after she stabbed her boyfriend in the home they shared on New Boston Road, will serve one to eight years in prison on one count of first degree aggravated domestic assault, according to a plea deal entered in Windsor County Court yesterday. She's also been charged with 90 counts of contempt for allegedly contacting the victim from jail, and may get a plea agreement on those, as well.Remember last week's story about winter surfing in New Hampshire? Here's what that looked like at Jenness Beach yesterday.NH is only state in Northeast with rising college enrollment. David Brooks, the Monitor's Granite Geek, reports that the 2019 enrollment numbers from the National Student Center show a 6 percent rise from 2017. Elsewhere the numbers are falling — including Vermont, which led the region (and was 5th in the country) with a 4.76 percent decline. Brooks suspects the NH numbers are fed by rising enrollment at national online powerhouse Southern NH University. Daybreak suspects the VT numbers are what you get when colleges close. More than 20 percent of voters in the NH primary will be new. That's from a report out of UNH's Carsey School of Public Policy, which concludes that the electorate is being reshaped by migrants and young voters. The state has one of the most mobile populations in the country; only a third of NH voters 25 and older were born there. They estimate that between 2016 and primary day in February, 160,000 US citizens of voting age will have moved to NH, while an additional 69,000 Granite Staters will have turned 18.NH men's prison fails kitchen inspection. Health inspectors at the prison in Concord found 12 separate violations, including damaged equipment, a crumbling ceiling and rodent droppings. NHPR has the story and the inspection report. The leaky ceiling has been a problem for over a decade.Does anyone in the Burlington PD not have a fake social media account? It was a whirlwind day in Vermont's biggest city yesterday. First, Chief Brandon del Pozo stepped down after admitting that he'd created an anonymous Twitter account back in July to troll a local political activist. Mayor Miro Weinberger then named Deputy Chief Jan Wright as acting chief... until she admitted she, too, had a fake Facebook account. So last night, Weinberger named Deputy Chief Jon Murad to be interim chief. And yes, to answer the question above: Murad confirmed he's "never engaged in anonymous social media posting."Yet another Vermont hemp shipment gets intercepted. You remember that shipment to NYC that got turned into the NYPD? Well, now Ganjapreneur.com (I know, how could I not cite it?) is reporting that a shipment from Hardwick's Big CBD to Harrisburg, PA was stopped by the US Postal Service. The company's in-house counsel says he is "confident" the contents will be returned once tests verify that it's hemp. Unlike the NY case, no one's been arrested.Efficiency Vermont wants to add reducing greenhouse gas emissions to its portfolio. The energy-efficiency utility has proposed a new six-year plan to regulators and, in addition to expanding its weatherization work, wants to focus more of its resources on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. This would include efforts like helping businesses manage refrigeration and stop refrigerant leakage, which is several thousand times more harmful than carbon dioxide in warming the atmosphere, Efficiency VT says.Three tropical trees play a crucial role in staving off climate collapse for the rest of us. This is much farther afield than usual, but this explainer by Vox is a stunningly lovely example of visual journalism. It looks at Brazil nut trees in the Amazon, mangroves on Borneo, and Afrormosia in Congo and how they contribute to the ecosystems around them, affect the weather, and sequester carbon. "It really does matter if the Amazon reaches the tipping point, if a stretch of Bornean mangrove gets razed..., or if a tall yellow giant in Congo goes extinct," the authors write. Check out that first pan up a Brazil nut tree.
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This Oscar-nominated British documentary follows four people — gorilla caregiver André Bauma, wardens Rodrigue Mugaruka Katembo and Emmanuel de Merode, and investigative journalist Mélanie Gouby — as they try to protect Congo's Virunga National Park from war, poaching, and oil exploration. "A work of heart-wrenching tenderness and heart-stopping suspense," the
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The community makerspace at Hanover High has been hosting "last-minute gift-making" nights, and tonight's your chance to cut and sew an eyeglass case for those loved ones — and you know who they are — who flagrantly put their glasses down willy-nilly. From 5 to 7: Drive around to the back and look for the door with the VW bus painted on it. Though really, if they were going for true last-minute, they'd be doing this
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