GOOD MORNING, UPPER VALLEY!
They're calling it a "nor'easter," but really, by the time it affects us it'll be a "sou'easter." Most of today will be pleasant, with no real cloudiness until later in the day. Highs around 60 by mid-afternoon. The drama comes tonight and tomorrow. The forecast is for a "bomb cyclone" off the coast, with record low pressure for October. The models have been pushing its track westward, so we'll certainly see heavy rain and winds. The best breakdown for us ordinary people comes from the Washington Post's Capital Weather Gang.Pilot veers off runway at Leb Airport, walks away. Yesterday afternoon, an antique single-engine plane, built in 1947, landed, turned abruptly to the pilot's left, and skidded off the runway. The pilot was uninjured; the plane sustained some damage to its propeller and undercarriage. And speaking of Lebanon Airport, it may get a nanobrewery. David Albright, a Grantham contractor, is in talks with the city about leasing 2,000 square feet of the terminal for Bright Side Brewing, which will focus on pale ales, India pale ales and brown ales. Albright bought Seven Barrel Brewery's tanks after it closed its doors a few years back, and has been looking for a home for them ever since. (VN)Canaan crash victims identified. Rosalie Schmidt of Dorchester, who was 73, died after her Honda Pilot crossed the center line on Route 118 and collided with a car driven by Stephen Frost, of Concord. There were passengers in both cars, including a four-year-old in Schmidt's, who were all transported to DHMC with serious injuries.Sullivan County opens public cider press in Unity. It's the brainchild of Lionel Chute, the county's director of natural resources. “I lived for 35 years in Washington (N.H.) so I know well there are a lot of old apple trees all along the road and at people’s houses that just get wasted,” he says. "I want to increase local agriculture by supporting it and promoting it.” The press opened to all comers last week. (VN)The Second Greatest Show on Earth. That's a new NHPR podcast about what makes New Hampshire New Hampshire. The name? Apparently, PT Barnum once stood atop Mount Washington and declared it the "second greatest show on earth." The idea? Whatever you want to know — like, what's up with all those vanity plates? — they'll look into. "This collaboration takes us to places we never would have gone; to stories we would not have been able to find on our own," they say. But they need your questions, at the link.No-comment department: NH Council of Churches offers active shooter training for religious congregations. The organization, which represents 400 churches, is offering the training to any house of worship, including synagogues and mosques, that wants it. It aims to teach congregations how to spot trouble and intervene; it does not advise arming members. The training also covers more common situations, like dealing with fires and medical emergencies.Seven Days is up with profiles of seven Vermont tech businesses that are redefining their industries. Most of them are up around Burlington, places like Benchmark Space Systems, which makes small satellites. But the list also includes Bradford's Mobile Virtual Player, which makes robotic tackling dummies for football teams and a robotic target for live-fire military exercises.Remember the Vermont AG's decision to charge people for taking photographs of public records? Well, Gov. Phil Scott and Secy of State Jim Condos have come out against the idea. Attorney General TJ Donovan was responding to a supreme court ruling that agencies can charge for copies of records, but not for viewing them; Donovan argues that taking a photo is copying the record. Says Condos, "I don't think it's right to charge a member of the public for taking a picture of a public record with their device."When the fall air turns crisp, you just want to head for the fields to pick your own hemp, right? Apologies for missing this when it might have done you some good. Over the long weekend Baramu Farm in Stannard, up in the Northeast Kingdom, fenced off a section of its fields for visitors to gather hemp for home use. “The same way you pick your own apples, [or] you pick your own blueberries,” as the farm's Johanna Polsenberg said.
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Dartmouth grad Brenda Withers' dark comedy about identity theft in the internet age centers around a hacking incident and its ripples in the lives of Lara (Danielle Slavick, you might have seen her in
Last of the Red Hot Lovers)
and the men who surround her. It's "a play simultaneously about technology and the internet and our contemporary world, but also about what we want out of the people in our lives," says director Jess Chayes.
Ann and Jeff VanderMeer — she's a Hugo-winning speculative fiction editor, he's the bestselling author of the "Southern Reach Trilogy" — host an evening with rising spec-fic writers Peng Shepherd and Audrey Schulman. “Speculative fiction continues to inspire a wide range of creative voices whose extraordinary and imaginative work nudges – or sometimes forces – us to ponder the near future,” says Neukom director Dan Rockmore. In Dartmouth's Filene Auditorium at 5:30 pm.
It's been 54 years since Jim Lemkin headed to rural Mississippi as a volunteer photographer for SNCC, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. It was called Mississippi Freedom Christmas, and was aimed at getting black voters registered — many of them for the first time in their lives. Slides and discussion at the Bradford Public Library, starts at 6:30.
The Boston College sociologist for decades has studied the impact of work on Americans' lives (maybe you remember her first book,
The Overworked American
?). She'll be talking about "new economies of cooperation" as a way to reset our lifestyles in the face of climate change, tech change, and income inequality. Starts at 7.
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