GOOD MORNING, UPPER VALLEY!
A bit cooler than normal but with clearing skies. Nice day ahead later today! High pressure's building in, and it should be pretty sunny come afternoon, highs in the mid-30s by mid-afternoon. A perfect day to look out at snow and marvel at the slant of spring light. Woodstock students planning climate strike. They're taking a page from a movement in Sweden. On Friday morning they'll leave school, march through town, and rally on the green. "We are hovering at a tipping point,” says one. They aim to be back in school by 1:15.Let me get this straight: The guy lives in one town, but votes in two others? A resident of Warner, NH has been arrested on three wrongful voting charges for casting ballots in Grafton and Danbury. The towns are only 9 minutes apart, but still -- you've really gotta like voting...Documentary play about the lives of female veterans will get first reading at the WRJ VA. Deployed is by VN writer Nicola Smith and Yale Drama School researcher Samantha Lazar, who worked with Northern Stage -- which is bringing in NY actors to put the reading together later this month. The NY theater world is taking notice.Dartmouth astrophysicist lands on list of black women championing other black women in their fields. Keeping company with Oprah and Michele Obama: Jedidah Istler, who teaches physics and astronomy at the college and who started the STEM en Route to Change Foundation, which pushes for inclusivity in the STEM fields. Ever wonder why that friend of yours is obsessed with nordic skating? The UV is the birthplace in this country of strapping long blades onto xc ski boots and gliding across the ice. It hasn't been that great on Lake Morey this year. But you can get a vicarious fix in this new, brief film: Hardy Norwegians flying across lakes that look a lot like the ones around here. The filming and the scenery are stunning.And speaking of ice, Green Mountain Power has an experiment going on with a freezer at the Brattleboro Retreat. Ice is just a form of stored energy, which can be used on hot days to reduce cooling demands on the electric grid. The project "aims to demonstrate that storage capacity is all over," says the utility's chief of new product development. Hey, you could volunteer your fridge at times of peak demand!Vermont proposes deer-hunting overhaul. Fish & Wildlife wants to change the buck limit, extend archery season. "What we tend to have now more so than we had in the past is these pockets where we have too many deer,” says its deer project manager. There are about 130,000 white-tailed deer in the state.Vermont's low unemployment impeding economic growth. The state announced yesterday the rate is 2.5 percent, the lowest it's been since the US started keeping records in 1976. It's about half what's considered optimal.SO WHATCHA DOING TONIGHT?Well, the Montshire's talking space. As in the final frontier kind. All month, its Tuesday night talks are about space. Tonight, a panel on space in film with a physicist, a film studies prof, and a mathematician, moderated by the Hop's film programming manager, Johanna Evans.Or you could let loose your inner apiarist! There's a free beekeeping workshop at West Leb Feed and Supply. Troy Hall of Hall Apiaries will be talking about everything you need to do to get your own supply of honey going. There are just a few spots left, so if you're interested, call soon: 603-298-8600.Whatever you do, have a lovely day out there! See you tomorrow.
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