GOOD MORNING, UPPER VALLEY!
Enjoy today — it'll be our last in the 60s for a bit. This morning's rain is brought to us courtesy of a front from the Great Lakes that moved in last night and seems to want to hang around for a bit. Still, it should clear out by midday as high pressure sets in. Low to mid 60s this afternoon, but dropping into the 50s by dusk and possible frost in spots by daybreak tomorrow.Dartmouth sees jump in rape cases, drops in burglaries and arrests for alcohol and drugs. The college yesterday released this year's Clery report, named for the federal law requiring colleges and universities to detail policies on security issues and to report crime stats for the past three years. In 2018, there were 34 rapes reported on and off campus, compared to 24 in 2017. Burglaries, on the other hand, dropped from 23 to 14, and arrests for liquor law violations from 46 to 37. Overall disciplinary referrals for liquor violations held steady at 272. Full report at the link, stats on p. 40.If you take Main Street through Norwich to get to work, just a reminder: Today's Bike to School day. Main St. will be shut down from 7:40 until 8:00 this morning. Just Bread hits shelves at The Haven, in stores. It's a "whole-wheat, kid-friendly sandwich loaf" developed by a collective involving King Arthur Flour's bakers, in collaboration with The Haven. The baking team set itself the task of using seven or fewer ingredients, at least 60 percent whole-wheat flour, and nothing artificial. The bread also had to have a five-day shelf life and "taste amazing," as head bread baker Carrie Brisson tells the VN's Sarah Earle, who's got the whole back story.Wilder peeping tom sentenced to probation, must live at home with ex-police-chief father. Robert Black of Wolfboro, NH, pled guilty yesterday to charges he'd spied on a Hemlock Ridge woman over four years; he's believed to have done the same with a half-dozen women there and dozens of others throughout the region. He was arrested two years ago, and has been in treatment ever since; Judge Elizabeth Mann "questioned the value of putting him behind bars and letting his work to date on addressing his underlying psychiatric issues 'unravel' in jail," writes Eric Francis. Dartmouth lands $4 million grant to study new opioid addiction treatment approaches. The money, part of a $945 million nationwide federal effort, will go to test the effectiveness of a new form of anti-withdrawal drug buprenorphine, study treatment in emergency rooms, and look at using tele-medicine. “There are lots of other places where there are opportunities to engage people and engage them in effective treatment - like in the justice system, like when they come to the emergency department," prof Lisa Marsch tells NHPR. Lebanon looks to allow ag sales in residential areas. Right now, people living in rural-zoned districts can grow vegetables, raise chickens, keep honeybees, and sell their products, while people living in residential districts closer to downtown Leb and West Leb cannot. Zoning Board member Jennifer Mercer hopes to change that for people with more than 5 acres in Lebanon’s residential districts. The city council takes up the measure tonight. (VN)Syrup by Valentine's Day? That's the prediction of David Lutz, an ecologist at Dartmouth who's co-authored a new report predicting that with climate change, maple sugaring season will shift forward a month by the end of the century. "We normally think about the beginning of the season happening during Town Meeting Day, which is in early March," he tells VPR, "and we can think of that as happening by 2100 closer to...the beginning of February."In departure from the norm, NH primary race is an actual race. PBS's NewsHour looks at the three-way contest that's emerged among Biden, Warren, and Sanders in the state. This is unlike 2008 and 2016, when frontrunners were clearly established by now. "There is intense pressure on all three. They all need to do very well,” Dem Party chair Raymond Buckley says. "This is really very much a jump ball.”NH among top states in country for college student debt, VT not far behind. The Institute for College Access & Success is out with a report on "Student Debt and the Class of 2018." If you were a New Hampshire graduate, you were more likely than graduates anywhere else in the country to graduate with debt: an average of $36,776. The average at Dartmouth was $18,903; at Franklin Pierce, $41,661. You can play with the interactive map at the link.Violent crime in VT falls, but rapes on the rise. In an echo of Dartmouth's Clery report, VTDigger notes that FBI stats show property crimes (except for motor vehicle thefts) on the decline in the state, along with robberies and aggravated assaults. But reported rapes, continuing a years-long trend, saw a 5 percent increase, from 254 in 2017 to 287 in 2018. Looking for a nice walk? Consider the Cornish-Windsor Covered Bridge. That's the website Only In Your State, calling the bridge "a part of one of the most lovely walks in the state." And yeah, judging from her pics out the windows of the bridge, with sweeping views up and down the river, she's very much got a point. And while we're on Only In Your State... The Vermont version's out with a list of 8 restaurants in the state that will "Serve You The Best Meal Of Your Life." Okay, maybe it's a little hyperbole. But if you're looking for a good meal, you could do worse than Black Krim in Randolph, Curtis's BBQ in Putney, Keeper's Country Café in Reading, Parker Pie in W. Glover... Okay, just sayin'... Over on the western side of VT, Julianne and Didier Murat, who used to run the Vergennes Laundry and now make candies and had a little café in the town, have just set up a popup bakery/café across from the Snake Mountain trailhead, with sweet and savory cakes, coffee, and hot cocoa. It's open during hiking hours on weekends through the end of October or "until it's too cold." Yo, Upper Valley bakers! We're looking at you...
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OKAY, YOU DIDN'T SNAG TIX TO LAKE STREET DIVE AT LOH. SO NOW WHAT?
The author of
Bel Canto
and
State of Wonder
is out with a new book,
The Dutch House
. She and NHPR's Peter Biello will be talking literature and the book itself, about the bonds between (effectively) motherless siblings, about nostalgia, and, yep, about real estate. Starts at 7, tix get you admission and a signed copy of the book.
One of the Dartmouth/CRREL scientists who'll be joining that expedition, Donald Perovich, will be talking about his research on how sunlight interacts with Arctic sea ice and snow, and affects the climate and climate change. It's an afternoon lecture, starting at 4:30, but just think how impressed your friends and colleagues will be.
Former Vermont poet laureate Sydney Lea will be at the Bradford Public Library reading from his new book, Here.
"[T]he ability to create believable regional voices and have them tell compelling tales has always been one of Lea’s great strengths,” fellow-poet R.S. Gwynn once wrote, and Lea fits comfortably in the tradition of New England poets who turn the natural world around us about to look at in fresh ways. Starts at 6.
The graphic novelist and Center for Cartoon Studies prof is probably best known for his 22-years-in-the-making
Berlin
trilogy, about the rise of fascism in Weimar Germany. Tonight, he'll be using that experience to talk about the process of conceiving, researching, writing and drawing a graphic novel. Starting at 6:30 at the town library.
It was Winston Churchill who first wrote about the "special relationship" between Britain and the US, and it extended to his wartime ties to FDR. Mark A. Stoler, emeritus historian at UVM, looks at WWII through the lens of the two allies' strategizing and partnership. 7 pm at the Norwich Congregational Church.
The trees’ puckered apples have gatheredA flock of birds, and as they alight,They’re full of unseasonable chatter,As if to say that all will be right.
-- From "Autumn," by Sydney Lea
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