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Cloudy this morning, but it'll all clear out. Though it'll also be getting more humid. Or as the weather folks put it, "On Wednesday we should see the triumphant return of humidity." Disdainful, maybe. Annoying, sure. But triumphant? Temps rising rapidly after 8 am, getting into the 80s by mid-afternoon. There's a chance of rain and thunder late in the day.New affordable housing opens in WRJ. The three-story, $9.8 million Wentworth Community Housing project on Sykes Mountain Avenue had its ribbon-cutting yesterday. It has 30 units for low- and moderate-income families, and another five for long-term housing for the homeless. A second phase will add townhomes next year.Dartmouth pays NH Fish & Game for Moosilauke rescue, may be on the hook for more. Fish & Game Col. Kevin Jordan told the VN yesterday that its rescue effort cost about $19,000, which the college has paid. The Air National Guard may still bill the agency $40,000 for use of its helicopter, which would also be passed along to the college. “I was very impressed with the way the college responded to this,” Jordan says. (VN, sub reqd)Parking rates in Hanover going up for employee parkers, and they're not happy. Starting July 1, it'll cost 50 cents an hour -- up from $.35 -- for employees of the town's businesses to park in its 10-hour lots, and $6/day in the garage. Town spaces at Thompson Arena will still be free. The FB crowd is steamed. "I have been working in this town off and on since the late 70’s and they are pushing business owners and their employees out," says one. After more than a century in Lebanon, Kleen closes its commercial operation, too. The laundry service, which shuttered its retail dry cleaners 10 days ago, has been unable to get hospitals to pay more to process their linens, and told its roughly 100 employees Monday it could no longer afford to operate. The decision leaves some 20 hospitals in VT and NH scrambling for linen service from providers as far away as NY and Canada. (VN, sub reqd)Sununu vetoes bill to replace state vehicles with zero-emissions cars, trucks. The measure, which passed the NH legislature along party lines earlier this year, would have blocked the state from buying conventional vehicles after 2026. Sununu cited the bill's $28 million cost for his veto.Oracle/Dyn lays off workers. The Manchester company, which offers internet domain registration services and products to optimize online infrastructure, was one of NH's highest-flying internet startups when Oracle acquired it in 2016. Dozens of employees learned yesterday that they'll be losing their jobs as the company axes its sales and marketing department. Oracle's been laying off worldwide. “Dyn was a family,” says a worker. "Oracle is all corporate."There are 54 covered bridges left out of almost 400 in NH. That's one of the fine little pieces of trivia in an NH Business Review Q&A with Elizabeth Muzzey, the state's outgoing historic preservation director. Covered bridges' biggest enemies? Fire and flooding. Muzzye's office oversees resources from 12,000-year-old "Paleo-Indian" sites to the Albacore, a 50's-era research submarine in Portsmouth."To get to the garden, we had to go on the Meditation Trail. It’s a path where we had to stay quiet, and enjoy the nature and silence." Just couldn't resist this. It's a writeup by a 6th grader from the South Shore of Long Island about his class trip to Spring Brook Farm in Reading, VT. The farm runs a Farms for City Kids program, and as part of a Newsday "Kidsday" feature, Frank Hernandez writes about the few days his class spent there. "I want to go back so bad," he says. "My classmates and I talk about the trip all the time."Speaking of the outdoors, VT State Parks are launching a campfire-cooking extravaganza. It'll feature recipes that can be prepared with minimal equipment using local ingredients -- sort of a "farm-to-picnic-table" movement, as parks director Craig Whipple puts it. There'll also be cooking videos, blogs, and classes at some of the parks. At the end of the season it'll all get put together into a Vermont State Parks Campfire Cookbook.VT brewers using wild yeasts... and lichens, sumac, yarrow, juniper tips, even mushrooms. Seven Days has an intriguing look at two brewers -- including Hill Farmstead's Vasilios Gletsos, who's got a side project called Wunderkammer Bier -- to experiment with wild yeasts and foraged materials as they search for depth of flavor. "The most interesting beers are the ones where I try to not mess up what the farmer did," says Hermit Thrush's Christophe Gagné. "How do you...allow the yeast to reach its potential?"Just as I was beginning to wonder when some wildlife footage would surface again... Here's a bear swimming across Joe's Pond up in Danville, VT last weekend. The bear seems calm. The video-taker, not so much. Help sustain Daybreak. This newsletter has been an adventure, thanks to you -- your readership, your emails, your enthusiasm -- and I wouldn't trade the experience for anything. But it needs to earn its keep. If you like getting Daybreak, I hope you'll help support it: Hit the "Sustain" button below or the link at the top of this item and I'll explain why I do this and how you can help keep it going. And for those of you who asked for PayPal as an option: You got it! AND NOW... WHAT TO DO TONIGHT?Well, for starters you could head over to Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller for "Mission Monarch: State of the Butterfly." This is a joint workshop run by the park, the VT Center for Ecostudies, and Montreal's Insectarium to prep you with everything you'll need to participate in the 2019 International Monarch Monitoring Blitz. That's a one-week, North America-wide effort in July/Aug to monitor milkweed plants and help researchers identify priority areas for monarch conservation.Meanwhile, over at Kimball Union Academy, there's a swing dance with Interplay Jazz & Arts. Interplay faculty and students will be playing big band classics, as well as vocal renditions of danceable jazz tunes. Starts at 8 pm.Hartford Parks & Rec's got Carter Glass at Lyman Point Park. Yeah, sure, they're young, but they can do it all: pop, rock, soul, country, hip-hop. Starts at 6:30.And the Norwich Bookstore is hosting Abi Maxwell, reading from her second novel, The Den. This is the New Hampshire-based writer's second novel, about two young women who find themselves ostracized by the same small New England community for the same reasons — 150 years apart. Starts at 7 pm. As always, a good idea to email [email protected] to reserve a spot.And as thanks for getting all the way to here, here's the opening of Longfellow's poem, "Daybreak":A wind came up out of the sea,And said, "O mists, make room for me." It hailed the ships, and cried, "Sail on,Ye mariners, the night is gone." And hurried landward far away,Crying, "Awake! it is the day." See you tomorrow.
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