HOW YOU DOIN', UPPER VALLEY?
Mostly cloudy this morning, then becoming sunny, high getting into the 50s. That's a deceptively simple forecast for a lot going on up there: an offshore low moving toward the Maritimes, a potent upper-layer disturbance delivering "a quick punch" of cold air down lower, a separate cold front moving through from the west. It all adds up to a wind advisory for the region from noon into the evening, with possible 40 mph gusts and a chance of isolated power outages. Hanover's Orient Restaurant to close. Hanover Park building owner Jim Rubens says it's due to a "mutual early termination" of the lease, but he's not saying why and VN reporter John Lippman's calls to the Orient are going unanswered. The restaurant did have ongoing inspection issues with the town. (VN, subscription reqd)Lebanon wants residents to keep single-use plastics out of the landfill. It's asking them to keep plastic water bottles, takeout containers (they're looking at you, coffee-drinkers) and shopping bags out of the trash stream. Maybe even find re-usable alternatives. It's labeled the "Refill NOT Landfill" campaign and is supposedly just for this month, but if it's good for April, why not May? And June? And July...?Heads up: There'll be a Quechee Gorge Bridge planning session at Hartford Town Hall on Monday. This is the public's last chance to weigh in on design elements before the Agency finalizes its rehab plans. They'll be talking sidewalks, railings, and barrier fencing options. The best part? The bridge appears to be located in England, if you look carefully at the image the agency provided for the town's FB post.Fairlee gets grant to improve walking, biking. It's one of three grants handed out by the state (Middlebury and Northfield got the others) to improve transportation options and boost economic vitality. The money will go to improve walking and biking infrastructure and better connect the village with the Connecticut River.Possibly rabid coyote attacks Vermont couple. The incident took place on their farm in Salisbury, which is just south of Middlebury. The farmer, George Gilman, 79, shot it, but not before he and his wife were bitten. Should the rabies test prove positive, this would be Vermont's first confirmed case of a rabid coyote, according to the state's Fish & Wildlife director.New database plumbs town-by-town health data for Granite State adults over 60. It's quite a thing. The report, which was funded by the Tufts Health Plan Foundation and released yesterday, gives town-level data on 166 different health indicators. Lebanon, for instance, fares better than average on cholesterol levels, but worse on depression and cataracts; Enfield has lower rates of dementia than the state average, but higher leukemia rates. Go in and play around.Meanwhile, Dartmouth has just launched a global menstrual health website. The International Menstrual Health Entrepreneurship Roundup aims to provide information about menstrual health education and products to organizations and people working on these issues around the world. "Knowing who is doing what and where, and which resources exist for others to use, has been a mystery for far too long," the group says. It builds on research being done by students. Vermont faces shortage of goat milk, dairy farmers ought to switch over... That was one piece of advice at the Northern Tier Dairy Summit yesterday. It came from Randolph's Miles Hooper, whose herd of 400 goats helps supply Vermont Creamery. It was also one of the more forward-looking suggestions at the summit, which was also filled with cow-dairy farmers advocating supply controls to boost milk prices. Hooper's point that “you can set up a goat dairy operation with a fraction of the cash outlay that it takes to set up a cow dairy” got a lot of interest from the farmers present.NH lawmakers are talking decorum again. This time it was in the House Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee, the site of the now-infamous pearl-a-palooza gun-control hearing. “People are coming here and talking about the worst thing that ever happened to them,” said the chair. “If we can’t set the example of making the Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee a safe space for victims of crime, who is going to?”SO... ABOUT TONIGHT...Marcelo Gleiser's going to be giving a First Wednesdays talk in Norwich. It's called "Physicists' Dream of a Theory of Everything," and the popular Dartmouth prof will look into how physicists and astronomers come to understand nature, and why their limits will always put a final theory out of reach. At the Congregational Church by the green, at 7 -- but you might want to get there early, because the guy just won the Templeton Prize and he's now an international celebrity and it's possible you're not the only one thinking of going. Meanwhile, Jo Knowles will be launching her latest book at a party at the Yankee Bookshop in Woodstock. The young-adult writer, who lives in Hartland, is kind of a celebrity herself in YA circles. Where the Heart Is, her eighth novel, officially published yesterday.And the Wet Paint Players, Leb High School's drama troupe, will be opening "Bright Star" at the Briggs. A musical written and composed by Steve Martin (yes, that one) and Edie Brickell. It's set in the Blue Ridge in 1945 and 1923, and "centered on lots of gothic Southern family secrets," as the Raleigh News & Observer once put it. Inspired by a true story -- a baby in a valise, found by a railroad track by a farmer out collecting lumber for a barn -- that was turned into a turn-of-the-century folk song, "The Ballad of the Iron Mountain Baby." Which closes with...This ends my song, my story I've toldI'll say, goodbye to all...See you tomorrow.
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