SO GOOD TO SEE YOU, UPPER VALLEY!
Warming trend! You can feel it, right? Well, maybe not right at the moment. But up high there's an anticyclone--winds circulating clockwise around high pressure--moving eastward, setting up a southwesterly air flow over the region. It's bringing up warmer air today: temps in the mid-40s, sunny skies. Even warmer tomorrow (and wait! 60s on Saturday??!!) but things will become more unsettled. Meaning enjoy the sun and dryness while they last.Hanover zoning board changing its mind on Greensboro Road church. Back in December, the board voted to block Christ Redeemer Church from building a new 21,000-sq-foot facility. Now they appear ready to grant the request, with conditions that won't become clear until the board meets tomorrow. Neighbors will be upset. "I can’t imagine what conditions they would put on a project that size that is going to actually mitigate the negative impact on the character of the neighborhood," says one. (VN, subscription reqd.)After years as the wallflower at the broadband dance, EC Fiber emerging as model. The east-central VT consortium of towns spent years watching grants and attention go to glitzier projects. Now the legislature's looking at building on its approach, which is less costly than for-profit telecoms'. "I think frankly some of the estimates that are promulgated by incumbent telecoms is a scare tactic to prevent other entrants from coming in," says ValleyNet board chair Stan Williams.Leb biotech firm announces multi-million-dollar collaboration with Eli Lilly. ImmuNext, which is embedded at DHMC and specializes in immunotherapy to treat cancer and auto-immune diseases, has forged a research and licensing deal with the Indianapolis-based pharmaceutical giant. It's getting $40 million upfront, and could make hundreds of millions more.NH could lose millions in lottery revenues. The state's lottery director warned yesterday that unless the state prevails in a lawsuit challenging a Trump administration ruling that online betting violates federal law, it could affect lottery revenues in general, not just online lottery sales. That would mean a loss of $192 million or more over the next two years.Fight over abolishing death penalty in NH moves to Senate. The measure, to shift the sentence for capital murder to life imprisonment, passed the House earlier this month with a veto-proof majority. The Senate began debate yesterday.Vermont sues opioid distributors. The suit alleges Cardinal Health and McKesson Corporation were negligent, and "opened the gate, and let the flood of these pills come into this state," per AG TJ Donovan. The two pharma giants "normalized overprescribing," the state said in yesterday's legal filing.Meanwhile, NH eyes impact of huge Oklahoma settlement on OxyContin. In a settlement announced yesterday, Purdue Pharma agreed to pay Oklahoma $270 million as a result of its aggressive marketing of the opioid painkiller. NH and VT have also sued, as have seven individual counties in NH, including Grafton and Sullivan. Here's guessing things are going to get complicated.Scammer targeting Vermont justices of the peace. A man calling himself Michael Rivera books a JP's services for, say, a wedding, then mails a huge overpayment for the fee. He confesses his mistake and asks for most of it back--while the check he sent, of course, will bounce. Overall, says a JP who was a target, "a very complex scam involving activities in multiple states, stolen bank and FedEx account numbers, and email exchanges carried out for three months."Desert bird from out west shows up in NH backyard. It's a chukar, which normally lives in the high desert mountains of Oregon and Washington. You can imagine the excitement.And finally, if you're just going to be knocking around this summer, you could dive deep into cheese, fermentation, and mushrooms. Sterling College in Craftsbury, VT, just announced its New American Farmstead lineup. The program's in conjunction with WRJ's Chelsea Green Publishing, whose authors are the instructors. This means you get Sandor Katz on fermentation, David Asher (and the Cellars at Jasper Hill) on cheeses and cheesemaking, Tradd Cotter on mushroom farming... Foodies, swoon. Everyone else, look 'em up.SO, GOT PLANS TONIGHT? (IF YOU'RE NOT OUT BOILING SAP, THAT IS)You might go see Aquila Theatre's version of Frankenstein in St. J. The NY-based company, known for its adaptations of the classics, has chosen to adhere to Mary Shelley's original novel, giving it a chance to explore what it means to be human, what it means to be a parent and, two centuries before the term came into vogue, what it means to create artificial intelligence. The show succeeds "in bringing us the full complexity of Shelley’s articulate, tortured creature," a reviewer in DC wrote last fall.Want to be strong, persuasive, and inspiring when you stand up to speak? It's "Finding your voice: giving great talks and presentations" at Bethel U. Tonight, you get help preparing and then practicing a short TED-style talk. "Giving a great talk, testimonial, or presentation is a skill that will pay off over and over," say the instructors. Funny how it's as true in the digital age as it ever was.Speaking of the digital age, it's Intro to Arduino at Claremont's Makerspace. I know, they were in Daybreak yesterday, too, but this is cool. Arduino is an open-source platform that makes electronics accessible to hobbyists, artists, and anyone who wants to build digital and interactive devices. This class is for rank beginners: "We’ll blink some lights, turn some motors, read some sensors and make a little noise." Just imagine where you can go from there...But let's end with the very much not-digital. It's Ukulele Club at the Hartland Public Library. Every last Wednesday. Who knew? And now that you do, how could you not check it out?Sun. Warmth. Time to get outside! See you tomorrow.
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