WELL, HERE WE ARE, UPPER VALLEY...
Did you catch that other-worldly light before dusk yesterday? It wasn't just a tease; it was the promise of clearing skies. Today may be our last day that's both sunny and in the 70s for a while (unless it turns out that rain and thunder don't actually materialize tomorrow). Things will start cloudy and probably foggy first thing, then get sunnier; temps into the mid-70s by late afternoon.Local cyclist Brendan Rhim caps breakout season with back-to-back wins. The 23-year-old Hanover High grad catapulted to the attention of the pro biking world in June when he won the Tour de Beauce in Quebec City. Last weekend he topped a field of almost 800 men and women in the Vermont Overland, a storied 44-mile race over dirt roads. And now, riding for his Arapahoe-Hincapie team, he's just won the four-day Green Mountain Stage Race, which draws riders from around the world and ended in Burlington yesterday. Oh, Hanover: Woody's closes before it opens, Pink Alligator to consolidate in West Leb. One of the three shops that was supposed to move into the old Dartmouth Bookstore space was a "mountain-lifestyle" clothing and provisions shop called Woody's. Its owner says construction has taken too long and she's pulling out. Meanwhile, the Glen Road Plaza beachhead that Ally Weiner-Sawyer opened last year for her consignment boutique, The Pink Alligator, is bigger than her Nugget Arcade location. And it comes with free parking. So after 10 years there, she's pulling out of Hanover. (VN, sub reqd)Two more flashing pedestrian lights for Norwich? They're on deck for installation next year by the Norwich Inn and between the Congregational church and the school. If, that is, town manager Herb Durfee thinks the new lights on Main Street are a "success" (his quotes). Blogger Chris Katucki suggests that light opponents who want to give crosswalk flags a go instead "will need to put together a detailed proposal."Goose hunt planned for Quechee golf course today. The club wants to keep its summertime population of Canada geese in check, and is allowing licensed hunters to shoot them starting today, before migrating geese start touching down. As you can imagine, Sunday's story in the VN (that's the link) has not gone down well, and irate UV residents have been peppering Quechee Lakes Landowners Association president Craig Allsopp with outraged emails. This seems like a good moment for a pic of Lake Morey at its absolute stillest. I mean, like glass. It just went up on Reddit. Maybe bookmark it so you've got it handy come November?The Telluride at Dartmouth lineup is out. Christian Bale and Matt Damon in Ford v Ferrari; Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver in Marriage Story; Ed Norton, Bruce Willis, Willem Dafoe, Alec Baldwin in Motherless Brooklyn; Beanpole, a Russian film that won big at Cannes... Tix go on sale to HOP members tomorrow and to the public on Thursday.Just a reminder to be aware out there: Hunting season's under way in VT and NH. Black bear and gray squirrel opened in both states on Sunday. Archery season opens in NH on Sept. 15 and in VT on Oct. 5. So.... Remember the escaped pigs? Now state police are looking for people who may have broken into the farm in Orange, VT. They've posted video of a man and woman who loaded items from Sugar Mountain Farm into a red SUV, another guy in a black diesel pickup with a bed cover, and yet a third truck with an extended cab that was also on the scene. Farmer Walter Jeffries says he's convinced the pig problem started with the burglary.Sunday was the 20th anniversary of the first loaf of bread sold by Red Hen. The bakery in Middlesex now turns out 2,000 loaves a day, half of them baguettes. And just behind the bakery, an outdoor bread oven is taking shape in preparation for this coming weekend's first-ever Great Vermont Bread Festival, which is being organized by the group Planetary Matters and will include longtime King Arthur Flour luminary Jeffrey Hamelman and Becca Reiger, a KAF instructor. "We just like being alive and we like to eat bread," says festival organizer Russ Bennett.Umm, New Hampshire? For the last dozen years, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress have been working with local grantees to digitize the country's newspaper archives. The project's called Chronicling America, and it gives us online access to history as it was covered from 1789 forward (and, soon, back to to 1690). Last week the effort added three new digitizing partners, bringing to 48 the number of states participating. The holdouts? NH and MA. (Thanks for the tip, JG!)If you like Daybreak and want to help it keep going, here's how:
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