RISE AND SHINE, UPPER VALLEY!
Because check this out: Sunny, highs flirting with 70. There might be some high clouds filtering in during the afternoon, associated with some rain passing to our south, but hey, what's a little water vapor among friends?That loud noise you hear today at 3 pm? That'll be Dartmouth testing its emergency notification system. Sirens and speakers can be heard up to ten miles away. By the way, in its emergency protocols, the college advises that if you ever receive a phoned-in bomb threat, you should "listen to the voice to determine the sex, age, accents, lisps, tone, etc." Just thought you'd want to know.Lebanon plans to install solar panels around city. It's negotiating a power purchase agreement with ReVision, aimed at saving about $12,000 a year in electricity costs. Panels are slated for city hall, the public works garage, the Kilton library, the landfill’s recycling and maintenance facilities, the police station, and the wastewater treatment plant. Both Hanover and Hartford are also putting up solar on public facilities. (VN, subscription reqd)The Mascoma lunchroom story keeps evolving. Now Bonnie Kimball, the lunchroom worker who's become a national figure, is being accused of trying to cover up the food giveaway. The mother of the boy in question has shared Facebook messages between Kimball and her son. “I have three children, and they are all well-cared for and well-fed,” the boy's mother told the Union Leader. “She did not get fired for feeding a hungry child.” The district yesterday rescinded its request Kimball be rehired. Things are never simple, are they? DHMC suspicious death investigation was triggered by staff concern the patient had been "intentionally overdosed" by family. As you'll remember, police for months investigated the January death of a 67-year-old woman as a possible homicide, but when they announced in April that all was copacetic, they went into no further detail. The Valley News went after the records, and yesterday ran the blow-by-blow of how the investigation came about. (VN, sub still reqd, and don't get impatient, because there's one more...)Enfield Shaker Museum sets up herb CSA. Love this. The museum is doubling its already respectable gardens, but it's not offering the usual vegetables. Instead, it's creating a 10-week herb-and-berry CSA -- a weekly box of the usual culinary herbs plus things like black cohosh, St. John’s wort, lavender, lemon balm, and herbs for dyeing such as false indigo and dyer’s broom. Plus whatever berries are in season. Open to only 10 participants. It's all part of the museum's plans to expand its outreach. (Yup. VN)Federal criminal charges expected in Jay Peak case. U.S. Attorney Christina Nolan is holding a press conference this afternoon in Newport, VT, to announce charges "related to a major criminal fraud case." Her office wouldn't comment on the details, but VTDigger, which originally broke the story about charges that developers Ariel Quiros and Bill Stenger had bilked foreign investors, says they're the focus. Downtown Newport, of course, is home to the infamous "hole in the ground," left after buildings were razed for an office project that never went up.Vermont AG sues Sackler family for opioid crisis. The state had already sued Purdue Pharma, makers of OxyContin, last year. Yesterday, Attorney General TJ Donovan announced he's going after eight members of the family that owns the company, alleging that they minimized the health risks of opioids and promoted dangerous and addictive products.The New York Times is up with its reporters' moment-by-moment commentary on Pete Buttigieg's Claremont town hall last Sunday. The Fox News event, of course, has enjoyed an afterlife ever since Pres. Trump took out after the network for giving airtime to a Democrat. No fewer than four Times political reporters watched and analyzed and kibitzed as it was going on. "Can we all agree that New Hampshire town halls should be required to include Dunkin’ branding?" muses Jonathan Martin at the 7:04 pm mark.NH Magazine is out with its guide to summer theater in New Hampshire. The state, of course, practically drips with thespian flair once things warm up and the tourists descend, with drama, musicals, Shakespeare, opera and more wherever you look. The mag has the goods on what'll be happening at the New London Barn Playhouse, Opera North, the Peterborough Players, Concord's Hatbox Theater, and venues even farther afield. You might want to mark your calendar for Hatbox's "Absinthe and Opium Burlesque 'Once Upon a Time'" in June.HMM, WEDNESDAY... WHAT TO DO?For starters, you could hear Sevgil Musaieva, the editor-in-chief of Ukrayinskaya Pravda, on"Truth Is Our Math: How to Rebuild Trust in Media When the Society Is Polarized." Musaieva, who's from Crimea and is taking a year as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard, is interested in the media's role in an era when news organizations no longer have a monopoly on either the news or "the truth." She'll be speaking at Dartmouth's Rockefeller Center starting at 5 pm.Learn Xi'an-ese cooking. Serious local cooks know about the Co-op's "learning center," which offers an astounding array of classes both on cuisines and techniques. Tonight they're covering the food of Xi'an, China, one of the oldest cities in the country and the starting point for the Silk Road. You'll learn how to make Xi’an Bing (stuffed pancakes) and Xinjiang Uighur Dapanji, which they describe as a "big plate of chicken." It costs (less for Co-op members) but then, you do walk away with dinner. Starts at 5:30 at the Leb Co-op, and you'll need to register ahead of time.Tool sharpening basics at Claremont Makerspace. You know darn well if you need this -- those gouges and chisels that take more oomph than they should, planes that protest when you even just mention wood... Jeff Roberts, a master furniture maker and woodworker from Unity, NH, will be giving a free demo on how to keep hand-tool blades humming. Starts at 6.Oh, definitely enjoy this day! See you tomorrow.
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