GOOD MORNING, UPPER VALLEY!
Another weak system moving in. There's a low moving up the Eastern Seaboard, bringing with it some moisture that may produce snow, freezing drizzle, and/or rain. But it's just a chance, and things will likely have moved along by late afternoon. Cloudy, temps into the mid 30s, then down into the mid 20s overnight.Deer stuck on river ice behind Common Man in downtown Claremont. She drew a crowd of onlookers yesterday, but NH Fish & Game decided against trying to rescue her, worried that the ice was unsafe and that rescuers getting too close might spook her. Officers decided to wait things out overnight. “Because she got out there, she can get back … but right now she’s panicked,” Col. Kevin Jordan told the VN. Lucky's goes national — but not happily. Tim Josephson, the Leb café's general manager, also happens to be a New Hampshire state rep and co-sponsor of a bill to limit high-capacity magazines. A few days ago the owner of Discreet Ballistics, a Plainfield ammunition manufacturer, called for a boycott of Lucky's, and ever since then its social media accounts have been hammered by pro-gun trolling. "We are not an anti gun coffee shop or a pro gun coffee shop," owner Deb Shinnlinger writes on their FB page. "We are a coffee shop."The Connecticut in winter. Jonathan Stallsmith sends along his drone video of the snow and ice — and the surroundings — above the frozen river around the rail bridge by the junction with the Ompompanoosuc.Winters in the northeast getting shorter, but snowfall increasing. That's per a new research brief by a nonprofit called Climate Central. From 1970 to 2019, the northeast (by which they mean Delaware to Maine) was the only region in the country showing increasing snowfall in two of the three potential snow seasons (winter and spring, but declining snow in the fall). Winter snowfall has increased in every New England city except Manchester. Sununu vetoes net metering bill. Again. The Republican governor on Monday said that the measure passed last month by the Democratic-controlled legislature — but sponsored by GOP Rep. Jeb Bradley — wasn't different enough from the bill he nixed last year. The bill aimed to expand the options for small-scale renewable energy generation.Those old optical-scan vote-counting machines in NH (and a lot of towns in VT) are aging workhorses. Yep, they have a long record of what Granite Geek columnist David Brooks calls "comforting reliability." And they're hard to hack. But... the software runs on Windows XP, which hasn't been supported by Microsoft since 2014. And since the machines aren't made any more, broken parts can only be replaced by parts cannibalized from other machines. The state's looking for a replacement, but hasn't found one it likes.Scott vetoes minimum wage bill. A few hours short of his midnight deadline last night, Vermont's Republican governor declared that the boost to $12.55 an hour by 2022 would unduly increase the cost of living in the state. The question now is whether the legislature can override — the measure passed the Senate handily, but in the House drew 93 votes, seven shy of the 100 it will need. Sound familiar? Last week the House failed by one vote to override Scott's family leave veto. Stay tuned.Kingdom Trails looks to expand by buying indicted businessman's property. Yesterday, VTDigger reports, the receiver charged with disposing of indicted former Jay Peak owner Ariel Quiros' property proposed selling 240 acres owned by Quiros in Lyndon to the Kingdom Trails Association. The association maintains a world-renowned network of mountain bike trails in the area, as well as 15 km of cross-country ski trails across the road from the Quiros property. The deal comes, Digger's Alan J. Keays notes, after a handful of landowners on the same road decided to close their land to mountain bikers. VT ag agency adopts hemp tracking system. The Agency of Agriculture wants to be able to monitor and track hemp grown in the state at every stage "from seed to sale." It's working with Trace, a Burlington company, which uses blockchain technology to track and verify hemp from growers to processors to buyers. It's rolling the program out for the 2020 Hemp Registration season."A beer and food lover's dream." That's NECN (New England Cable News) on Waterbury, VT. It hits the high points — Prohibition Pig, Blackback Pub — but also ventures to some places you might not have wandered into, like a branch of the Belmont, MA-based Craft Beer Cellar, and farm-to-table restaurant Hatchet and the Stone Corral Brewery up the road in Richmond. Just, you know, in case you need an excuse for a road trip.
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For the last year, Dartmouth senior Janice Chen has been studying dairying in the Upper Valley and beyond, going so far as to work on a dairy farm in Ontario. It began as a project with the UV Land Trust to
; it's become much more, generating more questions than answers (Q: Is milk a “local” food? A: Yes and no).Tonight, she lays out everything she's learned, followed by a panel on the future of dairying in these parts. 6 pm, Carson 060.
Conservation biologist Chris Schadler, who runs NH's Project Coyote, will be talking about the coyote's history and tenacity in the East. It's different from western coyotes in genetics and behavior, she says, "but with the same superior resilience and adaptability. It is smart, beneficial and by its presence, gives 'wild' back to our wild lands." 6:30 pm, Fairlee Town Hall.
Women have had the vote for 99 years and 6 months. But it took 80 years (from when Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were barred from the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London) to make it happen. Singer and historian Linda Radtke traces the movement through song and story, accompanied by pianist Arthur Zorn. 7 pm at the Chelsea Public Library.
Pianist Sally Hirsch and violinist Saul Bitrán are at the Hop with a program including three Latin American composers who frequented Paris — nuevo tango pioneer Astor Piazzolla, Brazilian great Heitor Villa-Lobos, and Mexican composer Manuel María Ponce Cuéllar — plus sonatas by Maurice Ravel and Gabriel Fauré, two of the French composers they hung out with. 7:30 pm in Spaulding.
I think we've gotta go with Piazzola, right? But with a twist.
Voices only. Dare you not to hum this on the way out the door.
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