WE MEET AGAIN, UPPER VALLEY!
Think of these next few days as a transition. On the other side of it, temps will be getting solidly back into the 60s. But we're not there yet. Today there should be some breaks in the cloud cover, especially in the afternoon, highs in the 50s. Later in the day, what they call a "trough" -- an area of low pressure -- will be dropping by from eastern Ontario, bringing a chance of showers this evening and tonight. Lows overnight a much more seasonable 40s. College opposes anonymity for three students in sexual misconduct case. In a court filing yesterday, Dartmouth said that using pseudonyms for three of the nine current and former students suing over psych professors' misbehavior would hurt its ability to defend itself. The college says the students have "used publicity as a sword." One lawyer in sex abuse cases says the college's unusual move "certainly sends a message, whether they intend it or not, that [plaintiffs] better be ready for a rough ride.”Plea deal in fatal I-91 crash highlights roadside marijuana testing issue. Windsor County prosecutors had charged Leb resident Keith Cushman of pot-impaired driving when his truck rolled over last September, killing passenger TR Haley. But without evidence collected at the time, they couldn't make the charge stick. “It’s insane that the state of Vermont would legalize marijuana before they had any sort of roadside testing for it,” Haley's father told reporters afterward.Hartford's villages kick off potato-growing contest. It'll be a summer-long rivalry: Which of the five villages can produce the most spuds? Cool, but it's got a serious purpose -- getting people into gardening and building in some local food resiliency. “Potatoes are something everyone’s familiar with,” says one of the organizers. “The amazing thing about potatoes is it’s hard to keep them under control.” Stay tuned for the Hartford Potato Fest in September. (VN, subscription reqd)Gifford expands services at WRJ clinic. The Twin River Health Center downtown will add podiatry and physical therapy to the urology practice that's there now. To do this, Advance Physical Therapy will be moving from its current spot in Wilder.Hanover moves closer to 100 percent solar goal. In addition to approving the town budget yesterday, voters also gave their permission for the town to enter into electric power purchase agreements with solar developers. Solar companies could build and maintain solar systems on town-owned buildings or land, and the town could lock in a rate for years, even decades. The town's been weighing installing enough solar to cover municipal needs on land it owns next to the water filtration plant. (VN, subscription etc)D-H merger with Manchester's Catholic Medical Center draws opposition. New Hampshire Right to Life has decided to fight the proposed merger, since D-H performs abortions and trains doctors in how to do them. CMC officials counter that they'll retain their independence. "The way the structure is set forth, the bishop will have 100 percent say over our Catholicity,” the hospital's CEO said yesterday. Meanwhile, D-H broke ground on a $59 million expansion in Manchester that'll create an outpatient surgery center. Donald Hall's farmhouse to be preserved. The poet's farm and home in Wilmot, which figured prominently in his work, went on the market after his death. Alarmed, preservationist Lynne Monroe and her husband, Frank Whittemore, bought the property for $395,000, and over the last few weeks have put together a group to figure out how to memorialize Hall. "It's the heart of it. It's where it all happened. It’s where the story is,” Monroe says of the farm.Sununu to run for third term as guv. Not that it's a big surprise, but there'd been some speculation he might challenge Jeanne Shaheen for the Senate. Last night he declared he intends to stay put -- but couldn't keep from taking a swipe at his state's senior senator. “We all know that I would defeat Jeanne Shaheen, but others can too,” his statement said.Uh-oh! CNN's on to the whole "move to Vermont for 5,000 bucks" thing. The news network highlights the state's Remote Worker Grant program, and talks to two of the 33 grantees: one couple from Denver, the other from NYC. The deal, as you'll remember, is that you have to work remotely, and one of the Denverites kept her job in insurance. But she and her husband also just signed a lease for gallery space in Bennington. Give us your tired, your poor, your hip art-crazed masses...VT House, Senate remain at loggerheads over lead testing. At the beginning of the session, a move to mandate testing and remediation by school districts seemed a sure thing. But the two bodies cannot agree on how much lead is too much, nor on how the state would reimburse costs for districts forced to remediate. Conferees left yesterday's negotiating session visibly exasperated.Dairying not working out? Try shrimp! With turmoil in the milk industry, a dairying operation up in Charlotte, VT, has gotten rid of the cows and shifted into malt, sheep, turkeys, vegetables... and now shrimp. Pacific white leg jumbo shrimp, to be precise. "They grow fast. They grow well in these indoor dairy barn systems," says John Brawley, a marine ecologist and former oyster farmer who's creating Sweet Sound Aquaculture in Nordic Farms' old calf barn. Heady Topper's influence reaches New Zealand. "Why does my beer look like orange juice?" this Kiwi writer wondered. He traces the craze for hazy beer -- "a trend that started by accident, but has been accelerated by Instagram into an unstoppable beast" -- to Vermont, and The Alchemist, and Heady Topper in particular. Turns out there's a Vermonter down there, head brewer at a brewery called McLeod's, who's launched a line of hazy IPA's called... wait for it... 802.SO HERE WE ARE, IT'S MID-WEEK. GOT PLANS?Kendra Pierre-Louis, a reporter on The New York Times' climate team, will be talking about "Communicating Climate Change and Arctic Science." It's actually this afternoon, but still. Pierre-Louis joined the NYT in 2017, after a stint at Popular Science. Her most recent article for the paper is the profoundly depressing "Syrup Is as Canadian as a Maple Leaf. That Could Change With the Climate." Starts at 4:30 in Haldeman 41.Silversmithing basics at Claremont Makerspace. Well, really it's about making a silver ring. But along the way, you'll get a tutorial in how to work with, shape, solder, and polish silver. Runs from 5:30 to 8:30.This evening's the local version of the Ride of Silence, organized by Lebanon Rec and Parks. The third Wednesday of every May, all over the world, bicyclists gather to honor those injured or killed while riding on public roadways and to "raise the awareness of motorists, police and city officials that cyclists have a legal right to the public roadways." They ride slowly (no more than 12 mph) and, as the name suggests, in silence. Starts at 6:30 in front of Omer and Bob's on the Lebanon Mall.The passenger jet crash on Moose Mountain, 50 years on. The worst aviation disaster in NH history took place in 1969, when a Northeast Airlines flight came in too low on its approach to the Lebanon Airport and crashed into Moose Mountain, killing 32 people, including the pilot, John Rapsis, who was 52 at the time. Nine passengers and the flight attendant survived. Tonight, Jeff Rapsis, who directs the Aviation Museum of New Hampshire and is the son of that plane's pilot, will be at the Plainfield Historical Society to talk about the crash, its historical context, and the hike he led last year to the crash site. Starts at 7.Hmm. Still processing that one. See you tomorrow.
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