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My earliest education in presidential campaigns began with the 1952 contest between Dwight D. Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson.

Bumper stickers were just becoming commonplace, so, regardless of my family’s political preference, I stuck an “I like Ike” decal on the back of my bicycle basket. I was 8 at the time.

The rules of our household were strict ones.

Even when only the four of us were together, conversations regarding politics were guarded lest they get testy. But what I most recall was my parents’ agreement – despite their different political affiliations – that “both candidates were gentlemen who could be trusted.” Of course, even by that age, I had a sense of what “trust” meant: telling the truth, not cheating, being a friend, able to take on responsibility.

There were no televised debates them – we didn’t even have a TV – so any drama associated with a presidential campaign was limited to newspaper and radio ads and the very rare in-person appearance of a candidate. Still, “character” was much talked about, just as it was at school where the nuns would tell us that the presidency of the United States was the most important office in the world. (The pope was in a different realm.) And it was to the Oval Office that all of us were challenged to prepare so that we might try to aspire to it someday.

What halcyon days of innocence those now seem. Since then, beginning with the Kennedy/ Nixon televised debate, the media outlets have multiplied and the decorum attending debates has changed from what it once was. Yes, there were always questions about or accusations against an opponent’s character, but these were secondary to policy priorities and strategic objectives. And even if the televised debate were between an incumbent president and his opponent, more than a modicum of respect was accorded the dignity of the office.

“Modicum of respect” this time ‘round seems less than a quaint affectation and more an unthinkable characteristic as the presidential debates descend to locker room gossip, rude – and sometimes crude – interruptions, and the reach for truth a long stretch. Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s dictum that “People are entitled to their own opinions but not their own facts,” has been overlaid by sound and fury, anger, and riposte.

How are we to teach civility, respect, honor, and dignity of office in the face of such 24-hour media coverage of the spectacle? What does it tell us when some parents keep their children from watching the current debates because of the content of the exchanges? I think often these days of the tag line of the National Endowment for the Arts, namely, “A great country deserves great art.”

Our great country deserves better and especially do our children.

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NEWS & NOTES Rallies

Hillary Clinton returned to New Hampshire on Monday, Oct. 24, and gave a speech outside Saint Anselm College. The AP reported she was joined by Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts. This was Clinton’s third trip to New Hampshire since July, and her opponent Donald Trump has visited the state nearly weekly this fall. WMUR reported Goffstown police counted roughly 3,000 people in attendance at Clinton’s rally. Gov. Maggie Hassan also spoke at the event.

On Oct. 21, Trump’s running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, stopped in Exeter to rally support for Trump. NHPR reported he argued the choice in this election is about national security and prosperity and defended Trump’s “rigged election” claims by saying voter fraud is real.

And Vice President Joe Biden appeared in New Hampshire to campaign for Clinton the day before with a rally at Nashua Community College, where he highlighted Clinton’s plans for college affordability and paid family leave. He also endorsed Gov. Maggie Hassan, who was present, in her run for Senate and took aim at Trump’s claims that the election is rigged, calling them an attack on the “very essence” of democracy.

by turning over information about a state contract with DartmouthHitchcock Medical Center. The Union Leader reported the suit is being filed with the Merrimack County Superior Court because the files turned over had more than 100 pages of redactions, according to the GOP’s lawyer, which they suspect are covering up damaging information. At issue are redactions on documents from certain state agency heads. While the governor has “executive privilege” from Right-to-Know requests, the GOP contends this should not be extended to state commissioners.

Sununu: ban ‘pink’

During a press conference, gubernatorial GOP nominee Chris Sununu outlined his priorities for combating the drug crisis in New Hampshire. NHPR reported Sununu took a hard line on drug dealers with talk about possible minimum sentences and enhanced penalties. He also called on banning a rarely seen synthetic opioid known as U-47700, or “pink.” It’s similar to fentanyl but not as potent, though it’s caused one death in New Hampshire this year. Pink is about six to eight times more potent than morphine.

Sununu’s opponent, Colin Van Ostern, wants to make expanded Medicaid permanent as part of his strategy for tackling the drug crisis, which he released earlier this Lawrence owes taxes The GOP candidate for Con- year, but Sununu has said he’s not gress in the 2nd Congressional in favor of that.

District, Jim Lawrence, owes more than $15,000 in taxes to Job fairs the town of Hudson, the ConThe state’s workforce shortage cord Monitor reported. Lawrence is evident in few places more than has not paid taxes on his home local job fairs. The Union Leader valued at $289,100 since 2013. reported a job fair in Manchester Records show his last payment of this past June featured employ$5,313.80 in April 2015 bounced. ers needing to fill 1,215 job A lien was placed on his home a openings but only 337 job seekmonth later. His total delinquent ers showed up. Another recent amount is $15,614.90. His oppo- job fair in Rochester saw only 84 nent, Democrat Ann Kuster, was people show up where 74 differrepeatedly behind on her taxes ent employers were offering to fill according to a WMUR story in 1,307 jobs. There were more than 2013 but paid them immediate- 20,300 job postings in the state ly after the story broke. Kuster is between Aug. 22 and mid-Octocurrently up to date on her prop- ber. It’s a sign the economy has erty taxes. turned a corner, especially when comparing the Manchester job fair to a similar one in 2013 that Hassan lawsuit The state GOP is suing Gov. saw 800 job seekers. Employers Maggie Hassan for not comply- are slowly starting to raise wages ing with a Right-to-Know request to attract more workers HIPPO | OCTOBER 27 - NOVEMBER 2, 2016 | PAGE 4

Union senator?

State Senate candidate Scott McGilvray said he would not step down as president of the state teachers union, NEA-New Hampshire, if elected. NHPR reported McGilvray, of Hooksett, does not believe it will be a conflict of interest because he has stopped lobbying. His Republican opponent, Joseph Duarte, argues McGilvray would still have to recuse himself from too many votes. The two are vying to fill the seat vacated by Republican Sen. David Boutin. District 16 is considered a swing district and it’s still a close race.

DCYF lawsuit

The Division of Children, Youth and Families is facing a new challenge now that the grandparents of two sexually abused toddlers are suing the agency for not doing enough to protect the children. The Union Leader reported the two girls, now 5 and 7, were abused by their own parents and some of the worst abuse happened during an unsupervised visitation after the children were placed in the custody of the grandparents, according to their lawyer, Rus Rilee. The parents are now in prison serving 25 years to life. Rilee is also the lawyer representing families of Brielle Gage in Nashua and Sadence Willott in Manchester, two children who died of abuse while their cases were under DCYF supervision.

Lawsuits in those cases will be filed after criminal proceedings are complete.

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The New Hampshire Pumpkin Festival in Laconia didn’t come close to breaking the record of more than 30,000 pumpkins set in 2013 when the event was held in Keene. WMUR reported only about 5,500 pumpkins were counted, which is roughly half of what they had last year.

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A legislative task force is recommending the state spend $25 million to retrofit government buildings in Concord from steam heat to natural gas from Liberty Utilities. The Concord Monitor reported the task force recommends the appropriations be expedited since Concord Steam is slated to close in May.

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rimack River was determined to be that of a teenager who is believed to have slipped into an open storm drain in Nashua during the flash flood rains Derry of Oct. 21, the Union Leader Merrimack reported. Authorities continue to investigate why the storm Londonderry drain was open.

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State lawmakers acknowledged the warehousing of the dangerously mentally ill in a secure unit of the state prison is a practice that should change. NHPR reported lawmakers said during a committee hearing that the use of the Secure Psychiatric Unit at the New Hampshire State Prison for people who have severe mental illness but are not convicted of any

New Hampshire’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate dipped back down to 2.9 percent for the month of September. NHPR reported the state added 620 new jobs last month. Economists at the New Hampshire Department of Employment Security say the gains occurred across the board and not just in one or two industry sectors. The state has among the lowest unemployment rates in the country; the national unemployment rate is about 5 percent. Economists say the low numbers actually point to a workforce shortage. There are more jobs than can be readily filled by the available workers and other states in the region are doing better at attracting talent with competitive wages.

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crime will be addressed in the next legislative session. Twice before, legislative studies concluded the practice should stop, but a bill that would require that population be treated at the state mental hospital or out of state was killed in the House. Democratic state Rep. Renny Cushing sponsored that bill and he filed a complaint with the federal civil rights bureau, which is investigating the case.

Manchester internet infrastructure company Dyn was hit by a distributed-denial-of-service attack that interrupted access to major websites the company provides its service to, such as Twitter and Spotify. The Union Leader reported the attack was unprecedented in its scale and sophistication. DDoS attacks are done with malware that slaves internet-connected devices and uses them to send a flood of traffic to the Dyn servers. Webcams, thermostats, TVs and smartphones were used, creating an attack that was tens of millions of IP addresses strong. A Dyn executive compared it to sending a flash mob into the lobby of the building so the elevators couldn’t be accessed. The attacks came in three waves starting in the morning of Oct. 21.

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In the weeks leading up to the general election, the Hippo is speaking with the major party nominees for the state’s gubernatorial and congressional races about the issues — and how they take their coffee. The interviews here have been edited and condensed, but you can find longer versions of each week’s interview transcripts at hippopress.com.

Jim Lawrence Republican CD2 Nominee

Congress in 2014.

Jim Lawrence is a former three-term state representative and an Air Force veteran. He started a Nashua consulting firm and left the company shortly before an unsuccessful run for

What experience do you think makes you most qualified to represent the 2nd Congressional District?

I served three terms in the New Hampshire Statehouse as a New Hampshire state rep. I’m also an Air Force veteran, a proud graduate of the United States Air Force Academy, something that I think is really critical because right now we’re at one of the all-time lows in terms of veteran participation in Congress.

And with all these things that are going on in the world right now, from our failed foreign

Ann McLane Kuster Democratic CD2 nominee Ann McLane Kuster is an incumbent Congresswoman for the state’s 2nd District. She was elected in 2012 and is serving her second term. Previously, Kuster worked as a community activist and an adoption lawyer.

What are some of the accomplishments from your time in Congress that have helped the people of New Hampshire?

My primary focus ... has been jobs and the economy and including workforce development and giving people opportunity. So I’ve been very focused on the community colleges and giving support to expand taxes to training programs. In particular, I’m very excited to report that we helped to open a brand new campus of River Valley Community College in Lebanon, New Hampshire. And that will serve hundreds of students in health care and advanced manufacturing in the Upper Valley and the North Country. I also helped Nashua Community College get the funding for an advanced manufacturing program that is very successful in giving great opportunities

fight ISIS and other terrorist organizations around the world, and also reverse the tide of the trend that’s resulted in an unfortunate situation where our allies don’t feel like they can depend on us and our enemies don’t fear us.

I also think it’s important to fix a lot of internal issues like our Social Security crisis. …

As an Air Force veteran, I want to target some of the issues we have with our VA health system. I think it’s unfortunate that we promised our veterans a choice program card that’s not working effectively now.

because it’s connected to a lot of other problems that we see surfacing. We’ve seen a rise in violence because of this. … There’s also a component of this that feeds into our drug crisis. ... We need to do everything we possibly can to stave off this drug crisis now, and a part of that is providing for enough support for mental health, especially this early intervention piece that I think is so vital.

into sober living and community supports including recovery coaches to make sure that people that do experience substance misuse disorder get the support that they need for lifelong recovery. In terms of the funding …

I’m going to be involved — I tried to get $6 million in emergency funding in the CARA, the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act. That was not successful. The Republicans opposed that, but we will be working in November and December to get the funding necessary to fully fund the grant programs to expand treatment.

low-income housing, again through the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development program, preserving low-income housing to make sure that it stays affordable. I also am very focused on paycheck fairness, to make sure that women are paid their full wages. … In this day and age, women are still only receiving 79 cents on the dollar compared to male earners, even for the same work. … And so we need them to be paid their fair wage for the work that they do. And then, finally, I want to make sure that the earned income tax credit and the child tax credit are permanent.

The cost of living is high in New Hampshire and it’s driven by a lot of things, not least of which are rent and childcare. Those things impact people with low incomes the hardest. What would you do to help the working people in the state pay their bills?

I’ve put out a working families agenda that starts with paid family leave and sick leave, because we’re the only industrialized country in the world that does not offer paid leave when someone has a child or is caring for a sick loved one. But beyond that, I want to strengthen the child tax credits so that we can help working families afford child care and rent and other expenses. I’ve been a very strong supporter of Head Start, which is a subsidized program for low-income families for childcare, and I’ve worked on subsidized

What is your approach to being an effective Democratic lawmaker in a Republican-controlled House?

First of all, I should say I think there is a shot that the Democrats will win back the House and I’m certainly working very hard to hold onto this seat and make sure we elect Carol Shea-Porter back to the House. … My approach from the beginning has always been very bipartisan. I like to say I was born bipartisan. I was raised in a Republican family and I knew from the beginning that, to deal with the gridlock, building relationships across the aisle was going to be very important to getting the job done. ... I think our work on the heroin task force is the best example to get 85 members of Congress working together on a 7 common goal.

policies to a lot of the tension that we see rising to the threat of terrorist organizations like ISIS who would do us harm, I really think it’s a very, very important thing to have people who have that kind of experience and background down in Washington, D.C. I’m also a small business man, but the most important piece is that I’m a proud family man and a parent of eight wonderful children. I believe How would you ensure that New Hampall these experiences make me in tune with shire has the resources to build up its mental just about every facet of the voters from the health and addiction treatment delivery sys2nd Congressional District. tems, given the waitlists and high demand?

This is a very important issue. Even going What initiatives would you prioritize if back two years ago, I started talking about elected? how the current administration, very early on, My things that I want to push for I believe for some reason, stripped a lot of the mental are the things that are very important to the health support, particularly for early intervoters right now — things like getting our vention. Not a lot was talked about it back stale and stagnant economy moving again then, not a lot of people were even aware of so that people can have good-paying jobs it. But unfortunately, I think we see the negathat they need to provide for their fami- tive impact of that decision now because we ly, dealing with our national debt crisis and don’t have the mental health resources that our fiscal spending problem in Washington, we need, especially when it comes to early D.C., working to put pressure to have good intervention. And this is pervasive. I mean, foreign policy and a national defense posture this issue doesn’t just impact a small subthat will help keep us safe, will enable us to set of our population. It impacts all of us, to people in technology and manufacturing. … I also was involved in a $200 million loan to New Hampshire for transportation and infrastructure ... to complete the Interstate 93 infrastructure project and to repair and replace 23 red-line bridges and also pave highways and roads around the state. ... I do a lot of work with veterans, on the VA committee, and with farmers with my work on the Agriculture Committee. And then, I’ve done some work in affordable housing and health care, particularly in Lebanon and Bristol. … And then lastly … I’ve been very, very involved in bringing people together in Congress. I’m the founder and co-chair of the Bipartisan Task Force to Combat the Heroin Epidemic.

We have a great demand for mental health and addiction treatment services here in New Hampshire. What would you do to build up those delivery systems?

Part of our role with the task force has been educating members. … We now know that four out of five heroin users have a co-occurring, often undetected or untreated, mental health issue. It may be trauma or anxiety or PTSD for the veterans, or traumatic brain injury, sexual assault, for many of the heroin users. So I want to make sure that we direct funding to mental health services and increase access to affordable treatment in New Hampshire, and then long-term recovery, looking

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The cost of living in New Hampshire is very high, driven by factors including high rent and childcare costs. And those things in particular hurt low-income people the hardest. What would you do to help the working families of the state to pay their bills?

Well, the first thing that I can do to help working-class families help pay their bills is to make sure we have a strong economy. Unfortunately, over the past eight years, we’ve had the slowest economic recovery or the slowest economic growth of any eightyear period in the history of this country. I mean, our largest GDP growth year was 3 percent. We have to, we must do better than that. And unfortunately, our government has made the problem worse through a system of over-regulation and over-taxation, particularly targeting small businesses, which we know are the economic engine of our great nation.

We need to pull back some of this over- 7

After the Access Hollywood tape came out in which Donald Trump talked about groping women, did you consider dis6

The Affordable Care Act has come under some renewed criticism lately, even from major Democrats like Bill Clinton, because of rising premiums for the middle class. As a vocal supporter of Obamacare, how do you respond to these criticisms?

Let’s start by saying no legislation is perfect from the start, but you can’t deny the incredible advances from the Affordable Care Act. … I have voted for a number of amendments ... most notably one called the “family glitch,” which was something I was very involved in trying to fix, to make sure that when a person has a family plan that they get the advantage ... of the subsidy to hold onto that family plan. And there’s been any number of amendments that I’ve voted [for] to support small businesses be able to afford coverage for their employees. So, overall, I don’t think the law is perfect, but I absolutely don’t think that we should repeal it because of all of the people that would lose health insurance completely if we did.

What initiatives would you prioritize?

Number one is the funding for the heroin legislation and making sure that we increase access to education and prevention, especially for increasing access to treatment and long-term recovery. I’ll also be working with the insurance companies to make sure that

In a recent NHPR story, they had trouble finding records of your company, Lawrence Battelle, and some of the questions asked to you then and since, you’ve deferred to the company itself. The story indicated the firm seems to have been dissolved. Can you tell me, is Lawrence Battelle still an active company?

Well, what I can tell you is — and I’ve said this from, going back two years ago — I stepped aside from Lawrence Battelle prior to 2013 and I was no longer an active they are covering these services. … And then, generally working for supporting veterans and making sure they have access to health care. … We opened a new clinic in Littleton, New Hampshire, and we continue to work on access in the North Country as well as the southern tier. And supporting seniors, supporting Social Security and Medicare and then the work that I’m doing on the Agriculture Committee for farmers and access to healthy food and nutrition programs.

You’ve said recently that your personal experiences with sexual assault mirrors what is being described in the Access Hollywood video. Can you talk about that?

Sure. I was shocked when I heard the words “...and when you’re a star, you get away with it.” And it triggered in me a reflection and a memory of an incident when I was just 23 years old, coincidentally working on Capitol Hill, I was working for a member of Congress. And a distinguished guest of the United States Congress had touched me in an inappropriate way during a meeting that, at that age I was very honored to be included in the meeting, and I was so shocked when this happened. But I had never told anyone. I had never talked about it and I realized that, in a sense, our silence — and I say this collectively because so many women over the past 40 years have been inappropriately touched

What are the biggest differences between you and your opponent?

I have specific plans to move the American economy forward to address our national debt crisis, to solve Social Security insolvency, to have a strong foreign policy and a national defense. My opponent has served two terms in Congress and she’s been relatively silent on most of those issues to date.

And I believe that I have the experience and the proper plan to move America forward, that if I’m elected to Congress, I will be able to go down in Washington, D.C., and affect those kinds of changes.

How do you order your coffee at the drive-thru?

When I do order coffee at the drive-thru, I order it black. No frills, no nonsense.

— Ryan Lessard or sexually assaulted — that our collective silence has led to this environment where this continues to happen. And so I wanted to use this as an opportunity to speak up and be an advocate to change behavior and change perceptions of this issue.

What are the major differences, as you see it, between you and your opponent?

My opponent’s voting record in the New Hampshire Statehouse was extreme. The positions that he has taken on a number of issues [are] I think following the sort of the Tea Party agenda, but even more extreme.

And, in my view, his voting record does not reflect the views of the voters of the 2nd Congressional District. … He’s voted that abortion is murder. … I support women’s access to reproductive health and that most voters in the 2nd District believe there should be less government interference in women’s access to reproductive health. He’s opposed ... civil unions and I feel very strongly that most voters in New Hampshire, again, [favor] less government interference. ... And there are more examples, certainly.

How do you order your coffee at the drive-thru?

We make the coffee at home [using] an AeroPress. It’s delicious coffee, and I have it with half and half. — Ryan Lessard

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I’m very proud of the fact that I was able to accomplish that during my tenure there. I don’t think it’s really relevant to talk about what Lawrence Battelle is doing now, first and foremost because I’m not a participant in that, and it really doesn’t have anything to do with what I want to do for the voters of New Hampshire.

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Would you work across the aisle to pass legislation that you think is important to the people of New Hampshire?

Absolutely. ... I don’t believe that any particular party has a monopoly on good ideas, nor do I believe that members of either party fail to understand the significant challenges that we face. My focus is squarely on going to Washington and being effective at promoting the things that I think need to be done to move America forward. I think everybody can acknowledge that our economy needs to be strengthened. We need to allow our economy to grow faster so that we can have good paying jobs for New Hampshire citizens. I think everybody can identify that our veterans deserve the benefits that were promised them and that we can come up with a bipartisan solution to fix that. I think everybody can understand that we’re facing a drug crisis right now and we need to do everything in our power to make sure that state and local government officials have the resources to target this drug crisis and fix it and … provide solutions for the citizens of New Hampshire.

avowing Trump, as many of your fellow Republicans have done?

Well, I gave statements the day after that tape came out and they were pretty strong statements and I still have those strong feelings. I mean, I’m a parent. I’m a father of four daughters. The statements were horrible. I don’t think anyone in their right mind could look at those statements and say that they would agree that that’s an appropriate statement for someone to make, so I look at it as something that happened. I don’t agree with it, but I’m still focused on my priorities to move America forward for the voters of New Hampshire. So, that’s my duty and as I look at that duty, in order for me to accomplish that, I need somebody in the White House that’s going to be a partner in moving those things forward. I don’t condone the statements that he made, but it doesn’t change my resolve to serve the people of New Hampshire.

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Though this summer was one of the driest on record for southern New Hampshire, it’s been a top-notch foliage season — the weather in the summer actually has little to do with the foliage in the fall — but we’re not out of the woods yet.

Long-term climate change and volatile weather variations may hurt our foliage seasons in the future. “[Good foliage] has much more to do with the weather during the foliage season.

If we have cool nights and we have warm sunny days, that tends to make the colors show,” said Dave Anderson, a naturalist with the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests.

He said while some individual trees living in particularly dry soils and urban areas with limited hydration might have suffered to the point of dropping their leaves early, they are generally the exception to the rule this year.

In addition to that, the tree species that inhabit different parts of the state play a significant role. The hardwood trees with the best foliage, such as the beech, red maple and yellow birch — what Anderson calls the “holy trinity” — are predominant in the radial swath that extends from the Monadnock region up to the Upper Valley, through the Lakes Region and White Mountains.

“The part of the state that is well-known for its foliage and famous for its foliage wasn’t nearly as affected by the drought as coastal, southeastern and southern New Hampshire,” Anderson said.

North of that is populated mostly by spruce and fir and the southern tier most affected by the drought is largely populated by oak and pine, which are better adapted to sandier, drier soil.

“The area that got hit hardest by the drought is probably the most droughtadapted, tough, tenacious forest in New Hampshire for that condition,” Anderson said.

The dryness doesn’t affect the color of the leaves as much as whether they are still hanging come autumn.

“A tree that’s distressed is going to change early, it’s going to shut down early. The trees that … are under stress because of the site that they’re on are the last to leaf out in the spring and the first to lose leaves in the fall,” Anderson said.

In fact, having too much rainfall can have a greater effect on leaf color as a surplus of moisture can invite molds and fungi

that can cause the leaves to be duller or browner.

Karen Bennett, a professor and forest resource specialist at the UNH Cooperative Extension, said heavy rainfall during autumn can also cause the leaves to fall off faster. So, in a sense, the continuing lack of rain might in some way extend peak foliage season later than usual.

This year, Bennett said the foliage season started late because the cold nights came later than usual and is lasting longer. Peak foliage in southern New Hampshire is typically around Columbus Day weekend, but it’s closer to late October this year.

But so long as fall continues to provide longer, colder nights and shorter warm, sunny days, the chemical process that changes leaf color will remain unchanged.

That’s because, for the leaves that turn yellow and orange, those pigments are already in the leaf before the green pigment, the chlorophyll, breaks down. This change is triggered more by the reduction in daylight than temperature. Once the chlorophyll is gone, the xanthophyll (for yellow) and carotenoids (for orange) remain.

The process differs for the leaves that turn red. The pigment that makes leaves red or purple, known as anthocyanins, are produced when trees like red maple have stores of sugar trapped in the leaves and sunlight reacts with the sugar to produce the pigment. While daylight patterns start off this change, colder temperatures trap the sugars.

So how might climate change have an effect in the long term?

“As weather changes over time, we might see changes with our foliage,” Bennett said.

She said increasingly warmer climates may mean fewer reds or less bright oranges.

And, over the course of centuries, the northern species that provide the best displays may push further northward.

“When these trees die and are regenerated, they may be replaced by trees that have less brilliant foliage,” Bennett said. “So if those species are replaced by those that are more southern … you’re going to have a different suite of colors out there.”

In the short term, one year of extreme drought is not likely to trigger such a massive change. But Anderson said if the weather becomes more extreme and variable, that could cause other problems.

“These wild fluctuations in weather … stress trees out,” Anderson said.

In New Hampshire, foliage season attracts about 9.5 million tourists and $1.42 billion in tourist spending each year.

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After about two decades of hard work and tenacity — particularly

by Dave Topham, who spearheaded the $1.3 million project — construction for the 1.1-mile first phase in Salem’s rail trail is completed, and nearly 60 people gathered there Oct. 21 for an opening celebration.

According to the Eagle Tribune, state Department of Transportation grants helped fund 75 percent of the work, while the nonprofit Friends of the Salem Bike-Ped Corridor raised the rest. Work on the second phase of the two-mile paved pedestrian and bike path will start next year, with expected costs around $408,000.

QOL Score: +1 Comment: QOL has been tracking this project for years and is happy to see this milestone. When finished, the rail trail will connect to Windham’s rail trail and extend to Derry’s, as part of the 115-mile Granite State Rail Trail from Lawrence, Mass., to Lebanon.

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Seen any bald eagles lately?

QOL wouldn’t be surprised if you have. New Hampshire wildlife officials are proposing to remove the bald eagle from their threatened species list, according to the Associated Press, because of its steady Granite State comeback. Today, the New Hampshire Audubon Society reports there are 56 territorial pairs that have produced 51 eaglets, the highest number of newborns ever documented.

QOL Score: +1 Comment: Chris Martin, senior biologist at New Hampshire’s Audubon Society, credited eagle activity monitoring, nest protection and outreach to landowners. A public hearing on revisions to the list is scheduled for Nov. 3 at department headquarters in Concord.

N.H. still has highest student debt

The latest annual study by the Project on Student Debt found that New Hampshire has more student debt than any other state. With 76 percent of four-year graduates holding debt, the Granite State earned the No. 1 spot. The average debt load was $36,101. Keene State College topped the public university list with an average debt of $38,971 for 2015 graduates and Southern New Hampshire University had the most among private universities with $38,574. But 78 percent of SNHU students left with debt as opposed to 85 percent of Keene State students.

QOL Score: -1 Comment: This is not the first time New Hampshire topped a list like this. The reasons include high public university tuition due to low state subsidies, high cost of living, and the fact that unlike other states New Hampshire allows communities to levy property taxes on private nonprofit universities.

In good college news...

The federal government awarded a $1.2 million grant to the Community College System of New Hampshire to help fund a program aimed at training more than 130 people from underrepresented populations such as women, veterans, people with low incomes and people who have disabilities or limited English proficiency. The AP reported ApprenticeshipUSA - New Hampshire is partnering with the governor’s office, Velcro USA, GE Aviation, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and the state Department of Labor.

QOL Score: +1 Comment: New Hampshire has a serious workforce shortage and experts says job training is one way to help fix that.

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Why can’t we get guys like that?

With the Chicago Cubs and Cleveland Indians two games in, we have a pretty historic World Series on our hands. Though it would have been historic-er if LeBron James’ Cavs could have waited one more year to win that NBA title. Because then we’d have one with a team whose city last won a title of any kind 52 years ago vs. one that hadn’t been to the World Series for 71 years. For the mathematically challenged that means 1945, when the Cubs of course lost to Hank Greenberg and Detroit.

Instead, it’s between ancient MLB franchises dating back to the beginning of the last century, where one team, the Indians, has been in the Series just once in 62 years (since 1954) and last won 68 years ago (1948) and the other last won when Teddy Roosevelt was president, an astonishing 108 years ago in 1908, a record that’s so lovably unbelievable I’m almost rooting against them just because the streak is so incredible you almost don’t want it to end. But either Chicago’s historic ineptitude will end, or greedy Cleveland will follow up 52 long years of not winning anything with back-to- back titles. Such is the weirdness of life.

But since everything always comes back to us, it’s also the all-time “Why Can’t We Get Guys Like That” World Series, since no fewer than eight Red Sox alums have been integral in getting there. That gives all the secondguessers around here ample fodder to kvetch about all the mistakes the brass made letting them leave Fenway for greener pastures.

Thus get ready for Trump-ian exaggerations over just how good they were then. So to set the record straight before the revisionism gets started, here’s what was happening in real time as they were dispatched elsewhere.

Indians: Coco Crisp – correct move.

Dynamic Jacoby Ellsbury was ready in center field and he was traded for Ramon Ramirez, who was decent in 2009.

Being there is why we’re here.

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Cubs: Anthony Rizzo – a whopper mistake. This is like Sox manager Ed Barrow bolting to become Yankees GM after objecting to Harry Frazee selling the Babe to the Yanks — only in reverse. That’s to say, after being traded with other prospects for Adrian Gonzalez because Theo loved his stat geek numbers, he was the first guy Theo traded for after landing in Chicago. More patience would have given the Sox a 26-year-old first baseman with three straight 30-plus-homer seasons, leaving Hanley Ramirez to replace David Ortiz. Not to mention saving the $158 million spent on A-Gone.

Cubs: David Ross – not significant. Given that Doug Mirabelli once got a police escort and a hero’s welcome at Fenway upon returning from San Diego because folks thought he was the only guy who could possibly catch Tim Wakefield’s knuckler just because his replacement couldn’t, it’s safe to say Boston overdoes it on catchers. Thus a guy who played in 36 games in 2013 while hitting .216 was deemed irreplaceable because Jarrod Saltalamacchia and Will Middlebrooks blew a big bang-bang in the Series. Truth is he was a valued coach on the field kind of a guy, but totally interchangeable.

Indians: Mike Napoli – right might. Free agency loomed with his average and homers tending down (.248-.224-.207 and 23-17-13) when he was traded. So who saw 34 and 101 in 2016? Plus with Ramirez going for 30 and 111 where would he play?

Cubs: Jon Lester – a wash. The first year in Chicago wasn’t close to David Price’s in Boston. Plus they were in last place and he was a free agent when traded for Yoenis Cespedes at the 2014 deadline. But since he was 19-5 with a 2.44 ERA and 2013-esque so far in the playoffs, Year 2 is a different story. Plus the price tag is $60 million less than that of Price, who’s — yikes! — 0-8 as a playoff starter. But since Cespedes was flipped for Rick Porcello, who was 22-4 for $80 million less, it worked out fine.

Cubs: John Lackey – mostly correct. He

was solid in the 2013 playoffs and has pitched well since. But while the 2015 starting pitching was awful, the 2014 hitting was worse, so the deal made sense. The problem was getting Allan Craig and the maddeningly inconsistent Joe Kelly back.

Orioles: Andrew Miller The First Time – right move. They got Eduardo Rodriguez and he was a free-agent-to-be on a last-place team and they could still get him back.

Indians: Andrew Miller The Second Time – really bad. He’s become virtually unhittable while striking out an absurd 16.7 batters per nine innings as Tito’s used him in every conceivable situation. They lost him because they wouldn’t go up from $9 million to $10 million per year to match the Yankees’ offer. As Julia Roberts said in Pretty Woman, “big mistake — huge!”

Indians: Tito Francona – correct. I admire Mother Francona for the kind of guy he appears to be and know no one was a better guy for Manny Ramirez’ lunacy. But getting stabbed in the back by Lester, Lackey and Josh Beckett in the Chicken and Beer fiasco showed there’s a shelf life for “player’s managers” and it was time to go.

Cubs: Theo Epstein – complicated. Like in Chicago, he developed a great pipeline of inexpensive future stars like Ellsbury, Ramirez, Lester, Clay Buchholz, Jonathan Papelbon and Dustin Pedroia. But with Adrian Gonzalez an expensive mistake, Carl Crawford a $144 million disaster and many other expensive free agents not living up to expectations, he spent like a drunken sailor on shore leave, which along with the revolving door at shortstop was his Waterloo.

But he also made the gutsy/correct Nomar trade, got Curt Schilling for pennies on the dollar, took David Ortiz off the scrap heap and won twice, which is a pretty good legacy. At the time it seemed like he needed to get out from under and they needed a new leader.

But on balance, patience might have led to a better ending.

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Field hockey finals coming The Big Story: The fall playoff season got under way last week with the Field Hockey State Tournament. Bedford was a 2-1 winner over Nashua North in the opening round but was knocked out by two-time defending champion Winnacunnet in a 2-0 Round 2 loss. Central moved to Tuesday’s (Oct. 25) semi-final game vs. Timberlane by virtue of an opening-round bye and a 3-0 win over Exeter. The winner will play in the Final at Bedford High School on Sunday at 5 p.m.

Sports 101: Despite his being the oldest starting quarterback in the NFL, four active QBs have more than the 150 interceptions Tom Brady has thrown. How many of them can you name?

Identical Twins of the Week: It was the identical 5-0 wins by the Goffstown girls and boys of the West soccer teams on Tuesday.

For the girls five different scorers — Alyssa Bourque, Alexa Skinner, Lilly Proulx, Sydney Gagne and Mandi Dovas — paved the way, while the boys got three scores from high forward/placekicker Sam Heidenreich.

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4 – saves by Jake Statires as Bedford soccer moved to 14-1-1 with a 3-1 win over Alvirne when his brother Charlie, Ryan Sledjeski and Alex Quinones scored the goals.

10 – football games in progress suspended on Friday because of torrential rains.

10.1 – seconds remaining when wideout Charles Keith caught the game-

upcoming boys Division I soccer tournament between Bedford and Timberlane. Each came into the game at 13-1-0 and left at 13-1-1 after a great game that ended in a 1-1 tie. Devon Garrett got the lone goal for the Bulldogs off a feed from Mark Keiffer.

Sports 101 Answer: The active QBs with more interceptions than Tom Brady are Drew Brees (209), Eli Manning (205), Carson Palmer (171) and Ben Roethlisberger (153). Brady’s 150 incidentally ranks just 56th on the all-time list and is a full 101 more than Peyton Manning’s 251 and 183 behind all-time leader Brett Favre’s 336.

On This Date – Oct. 27: 1986 – NY Mets (gulp) beat the Red Sox after the famous Bill Buckner 10th-inning meltdown in Game 6 to win the World Series. 2004 – After 86 excruciatingly grueling years the heartbreak is over in New England as the Boston Red Sox win their first World Series since 1918 with a sweep of the St. Louis Cardinals when Manny Ramirez is MVP. 2006 – Local lad Chris Carpenter helps the St. Louis Cardinals finish off Detroit four games to one to win the World Series

winning TD pass to give Goffstown the win in the battle of 6-1 teams in a 39-35 shootout over Salem when QB Nik Moquin threw for 363 yards and three TDs and Joshua Sibanda ran for 250 yards and two scores.

22 – goals scored vs. zero allowed by the Bedford girls after beating Alvirne 4-0 for a seventh straight win when the goals came from (mama) Mia Roy, Gabby DeAngelis, and the usu-

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al suspects of (hey) Saylor Clark and “double Mac” MacKenzie MacEachern.

33 – TD passes thrown on the year by Merrimack’s Justin Grassini after throwing three more in Merrimack’s 32-9 win over Timberlane.

50 – year anniversary marked last week of Bobby Orr’s first game with the Boston Bruins as an 18-year-old rookie out of Parry Sound, Ontario.

Hank Greenberg: Baseball’s first great Jewish ballplayer and eventual Hall of Famer who faced virulent anti-Semitism long before Jackie Robinson got to Brooklyn, starring for Detroit in the 1930s. Had 100 RBI at mid-season, but still didn’t make the 1937 All-Star Game (wonder why), hit 58 homers in 1938, and drove in 100-plus seven times in 13 seasons, including an AL record 184 in ’37, before a bad back forced his retirement in 1946.

1908 Chicago Cubs: Won 97 games, had the famed double play trio of Tinker to Evers to Chance and a 29-game winner with one of the great nicknames ever, “Three Fingers” Mordecai Brown.

1948 Cleveland Indians: They owned Boston that fall, beating the Sox in a playoff game to get to the World Series and the Spahn and Sain and two days of rain Boston Braves to win it. They had .355-hitting player-manager and AL-MVP Lou Boudreau and six Hall of Famers overall, including 42-year-old Negro League legend Satchel Paige, who went 6-1.

1954 Cleveland Indians: They won 111 games, had five guys win 13 plus, four Hall of Fame pitchers — Bob Feller, Bob Lemon, Early Wynn and Hal Newhouser — and slugging Larry Doby made it five overall. But they got swept by the NY Giants in a series made famous by Willie Mays’ over-the-shoulder catch approximately 2.5 miles from home in cavernous dead center at the Polo Grounds. And, oh by the way Cleveland’s GM was a feller, ah, fella named Greenberg, Hank.

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HOW TO VOTE IN NH If you want to vote on Nov. 8, go to your town or city’s website or ask your town or city clerk to find your polling location.

Arrive at the polls and, if you’re already registered to vote, you’ll only need a government issued photo ID, like a driver’s license. If you are not yet registered, New Hampshire has same-day registration. Just bring additional evidence, like a utility bill, showing your address if you moved recently and your address hasn’t been updated on your ID, and you will be able to register at the polling station right before voting.

For more info, visit sos. nh.gov, where you can see sample ballots, figure out if you’re registered, find out who the electors are for each candidate and see a list of all the independent candidates.

Hassan vs. Ayotte: a fair fight?

Illustration by Tony Luongo.

A traditional NH battle over independents colored by outside influences The matchup between Democratic Gov. Maggie Hassan and Republican incumbent Sen. Kelly Ayotte has been seen as one of the few swing-state races that could determine which party controls the U.S. Senate. And big money has followed suit; outside spending exceeds $70 million so far.

But what has been a close race for months between two popular candidates, with epic stakes and aggressive campaigning on both sides, has been fought otherwise as a traditional New Hampshire race, with both candidates trying to appeal to independent voters.

In the end, however, it is likely the presi-

dential race will determine its outcome. And, as with other state races, it’s not thanks to Democrats riding Hillary Clinton’s coattails so much as Republicans going down with a sinking Donald Trump ship (see graph on p. 15). That’s based on recent polls showing Hassan leading the race by about 8 points, though Ayotte may be able to take advantage of “ballot-splitters” willing to vote for Clinton at the top and Republicans down ticket.

Safe strategy

Ayotte and Hassan have been trying to outbipartisan each other since this race began

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last fall — arguably before it began, since a Hassan candidacy was long-expected by insiders and Ayotte announced her re-election bid unusually early, in July 2015.

“You have to work across the aisle if you want to get things done. And that's why I’ve done that because if you want to get results, you’ve got to work with other people and find the common ground so that we can solve our problems,” Ayotte said during her campaign launch event in a West Side Manchester function hall.

And this language has continued throughout the campaign. As recently as Oct. 22, the

Ayotte campaign sent out a press release with the headline “ICYMI: Keene Sentinel: Kelly Highlights "Her Ability To Work Across The Aisle".”

Hassan has made similar overtures to independents by highlighting the work she’s done as governor to propose bipartisan legislation addressing the drug crisis. And to the chagrin of GOP legislators, she even points to the state budget compromise, following her budget veto, as an example of reaching across the aisle.

But in a year when Democrats were expected to do better in the state and, 18

Help or harm from above?

The way presidential races tend to affect state races down the ballot is often described as a tidal force; generally, a solid candidate performance is a rising tide that lifts all boats.

But the inverse is true as well, and analysts say 2016 is probably going to be the best example of that in modern memory.

The flood

Dante Scala, a political science professor at the University of New Hampshire, compares the problems in the Republican party to a flood. And floods like these are more of a risk in swing states like New Hampshire, which has a roughly even balance between Republican and Democrat voters.

“If you [have] a case where one side for whatever reason is more powerful, more unified, one particular year than the other, it’s not like there are levees or barriers to the floods that are all that strong. It’s easy for the other side to get flooded out,” Scala said.

In this case, it’s the Republicans who are getting flooded out, and Scala says it’s Donald Trump who caused it. It can even affect smaller races in the state House and Senate as popular incumbents or reliably Republican districts can no longer take the safety of those seats for granted.

“That’s a concern for Republicans today is how high will the flood waters get? How many candidates through no fault of their own are just kind of the victims of the flood?”

Scala said.

Just how bad things have gotten for the Republican party this election was made more evident by a UNH poll released Oct. 19 that shows Hillary Clinton leading Trump by 15 points. Subsequent UNH polls of state races that had previously been too close to

call showed a statistically significant lead for Democratic candidates.

“Republicans, I think, are just not happy with Donald Trump,” said Andy Smith at the UNH Survey Center.

The relative unpopularity of both candidates has been a constant factor throughout the election season, but Smith says Trump’s unpopularity in New Hampshire is more far-reaching than Clinton’s. He said Trump needs about 95 percent of state Republicans to vote for him to win New Hampshire, but he only has about 75 percent. Clinton has 87 percent of Democrats.

In a normal election year, pundits would be paying closer attention to demographics like age, education level and gender and which candidate is doing better among independent voters, but that’s assuming each party’s base will provide virtually full support to their party’s nominee. Those factors matter less this time around; still, Clinton has an edge among independents with 36 percent to Trump’s 24 percent.

Likewise, Trump is very unpopular among women, who are a majority in the state. Clinton is leading among women in the state 57 percent to 30 percent, and she holds a 12 point lead among women nationally according to an Oct. 25 CNN poll.

“You can’t underestimate the importance of female voters in New Hampshire. And the way the gender gap is playing out so far nationally, you can’t help but think that’s going to resonate here in New Hampshire,” Scala said.

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Quick Q&As with Executive Council candidates To paint a brief picture of who is running for the Executive Council, the Hippo sent each candidate a short questionnaire:

District 1 Republican Joseph Kenney 1. Yes or no, do you support building a commuter rail line that connects Boston to southern New Hampshire?

Yes, if there is a public/private partnership.

2. Yes or no, do you support funding for Planned Parenthood?

No. 3. Yes or no, do you support solar energy projects that aren’t funded by state taxes?

Yes, if there is a public/private partnership that reduces energy costs.

4. What general approach would you take to awarding contracts?

First approach is that I read the contract. I look for a competitive bid process and I look at that scoring and then I evaluate the merits of the Request for Proposal (RFP), the proposed award and then I determine the type of service and value being provided. I hate sole source contracts and major contracts awards to vendors out of side. We should keep the work and employment here in New Hampshire.

5. What will you look for when considering nominees for the courts and state agency heads?

I look for someone who [is] from New Hampshire who knows the people, participates in community, non-profit and state activities and who has the respect of his or her peers. I expect them to be educated, have the appropriate degrees within their profession, diversified work experience and close understanding of New Hampshire statutes.

I also try to understand what their management style is and legal philosophy to better understand what type of manager or judge they might be.

6. How do you order your coffee at the drive-thru?

Hot mocha with cream, every time.

Democrat Mike Cryans 1. Yes or no, do you support building a commuter rail line that connects Boston to southern New Hampshire?

Yes, if it’s part of a comprehensive infrastructure package.

2. Yes or no, do you support funding for Planned Parenthood?

Yes. 3. Yes or no, do you support solar energy projects that aren’t funded by state taxes?

Yes. 4. What general approach would you

take to awarding contracts?

In awarding contracts it is important to listen to experts and constituents, including those with dissenting opinions, and decide based on the best interests of the state and its citizens. I will try to award contracts whenever possible to in-state groups.

5. What will you look for when considering nominees for the courts and state agency heads?

When considering nominees for the courts, I will look for highly qualified candidates with awareness and knowledge of alternative programs regarding substance abuse like Drug Courts to try to curb the opioid epidemic. I will do my best to be an advocate for qualified nominees from District 1 for state agency heads.

6. How do you order your coffee at the drive-thru?

I am not a coffee drinker.

District 2 Republican Sam Cataldo 1. Yes or no, do you support building a commuter rail line that connects Boston to southern New Hampshire?

Yes, if the rail company pays all of the cost.

2. Yes or no, do you support funding for Planned Parenthood?

No. 3. Yes or no, do you support solar energy projects that aren’t funded by state taxes?

Yes. 4. What general approach would you take to awarding contracts?

For someone who worked as a contractor for over 20 years the following may apply: to provide the best solution; the value and address the requirements as addressed in the contract requirement, to assure the work standards are fully comprehensible to the work as outlined with the worker experience, and that they meet State requirements and contacts that comply also with federal requirements, and consumer protection shall be adhered in all contracts.

5. What will you look for when considering nominees for the courts and state agency heads?

Experience in the state and federal system will be a plus. Education, background in business, that they are all responsible and accountable to the citizens of New Hampshire only, and that all will be administers of the affairs of the state as defined in the New Hampshire constitution, and New Hampshire statutes.

6. How do you order your coffee at the drive-thru?

I never order coffee at any drive-thru. I walk in and order orange juice, bottled only, or a soda with no ice.

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Democrat Andru Volinsky 1. Yes or no, do you support building a commuter rail line that connects Boston to southern New Hampshire?

Yes.

5. What will you look for when considering nominees for the courts and state agency heads?

Integrity, character, demonstrated experience serving others.

2. Yes or no, do you support funding for Planned Parenthood?

Yes.

6. How do you order your coffee at the drive-thru?

Changes day by day.

3. Yes or no, do you support solar energy projects that aren’t funded by state taxes?

Yes. 4. What general approach would you take to awarding contracts?

I would like our procedures to be streamlined and efficient. I want to understand the context in which the contract will exist before the Council approves the deal so as to avoid a situation like Dartmouth-Hitchcock’s announcement of economic troubles and layoffs right after winning a contract. I want the state’s spending on its contracts to favor local businesses, favor businesses that take care of their employees by way of livable wages and decent benefits and to favor businesses that believe climate change is real and that are doing something about it.

5. What will you look for when considering nominees for the courts and state agency heads?

I will look for nominees that are from diverse backgrounds. While all nominees must be well qualified by education and experience, I especially want nominees who are intellectually curious and creative. I want good people working in our agencies and in our courts who understand that we serve the people of the state and who seek innovative ways to provide that service.

6. How do you order your coffee at the drive-thru?

I don’t. My favorite three coffee shops are [Cafe] La Reine, the Works and True Brew.

None have a drive-through!

District 3 Republican Russell Prescott 1. Yes or no, do you support building a commuter rail line that connects Boston to southern New Hampshire?

No. 2. Yes or no, do you support funding for Planned Parenthood?

Depends on their merits.

3. Yes or no, do you support solar energy projects that aren’t funded by state taxes?

Yes, with local control.

4. What general approach would you take to awarding contracts?

An open bid process to find the most affordable provider to serve the people of New Hampshire with the highest quality and best service.

Democrat Beth Roth 1. Yes or no, do you support building a commuter rail line that connects Boston to southern New Hampshire?

Yes.

2. Yes or no, do you support funding for Planned Parenthood?

Yes.

3. Yes or no, do you support solar energy projects that aren’t funded by state taxes?

Yes.

4. What general approach would you take to awarding contracts?

I draw up contracts daily in my business law practice. The Executive Council evaluates contracts to ensure an appropriation made by the legislature is spent for the intended purpose. That process should happen in the most efficient way possible.

Holding up contracts for frivolous or partisan reasons, such as we saw with Planned Parenthood’s, is a grave disservice to the people of New Hampshire.

5. What will you look for when considering nominees for the courts and state agency heads?

As an attorney and mental health counselor, I have been in courtrooms where I felt the judge was misassigned. It’s important to evaluate nominees based on demonstrated competency and interest in the specific area to which they’re nominated. For instance, a judicial nominee for Drug Court needs to demonstrate an understanding and interest in mental health issues and show fairness and compassion.

6. How do you order your coffee at the drive-thru?

Two creams, no sugar.

District 4 Republican Joe Kelly Levasseur 1. Yes or no, do you support building a commuter rail line that connects Boston to southern New Hampshire?

No.

2. Yes or no, do you support funding for Planned Parenthood?

No.

3. Yes or no, do you support solar energy projects that aren’t funded by state taxes?

Yes.

The money game

Where is all the outside money coming from?

Spending has ramped up in the U.S. Senate race between Kelly Ayotte and Maggie Hassan in recent months, mostly with outside money from super PACs and so-called “dark money” advocacy groups.

Dark money groups are organizations that, unlike PACs, are not required to disclose its donors, but they’re not allowed to explicitly support a candidate. Super PACs and other independent spending groups are allowed to raise unlimited money with no contribution restrictions so long as they don’t coordinate with candidate campaigns, but they can coordinate with one another.

Robert Boatright, a professor of political science at Clark University in Worcester, Mass., has been following the money game closely. He said that by August, spending had already passed the $20 million mark.

By mid-September it reached $50 million, and now, toward the end of October, it has exceeded $70 million, according to OpenSecrets.org.

“By the time the election’s over, this is going to be by far not only the most expensive election that New Hampshire has seen, but probably arguably among the four or five most expensive Senate elections the U.S. has seen … in terms of outside money,” Boatright said.

As far as candidate money goes, it’s only a fraction of that. An analysis by OpenSecrets

4. What general approach would you take to awarding contracts?

Read each contract thoroughly so as not to have instances like the crisis we have with Dartmouth-Hitchcock Hospital and the Drug Crisis Contracts that my opponent recently voted for. I expect open and honest bidding with contracts being awarded on merit, not familiarity.

shows Ayotte’s campaign has raised money from industries like real estate, law firms, insurance, oil and gas and pharmaceuticals.

Hassan’s campaign has raised money from law firms, women’s issues groups, nonprofits and the education sector.

According to available data online, outside money has dominated with more than $38.7 million in spending on behalf of Ayotte and more than $33.4 million on behalf of Hassan.

One of the biggest players on the proAyotte side is a PAC called Granite State Solutions, Boatright said. It has spent more than $18.6 million for attack ads against Hassan, according to OpenSecrets. In Hassan’s corner is the Senate Majority PAC, which spent $11.3 million in ads supporting Hassan and attacking Ayotte. Behind Granite State Solutions are a number of out-of-state donors, the largest of which is Sheldon Adelson. While that PAC’s money is being spent entirely to help Ayotte’s race, the Senate Majority PAC is used for several races nationwide. Among the biggest donors to that PAC are George Soros, his son Alexander Soros and media mogul Fred Eychaner.

The second largest PACs, in terms of spending, on both sides are the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee ($7.6 million) and the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee ($6.8 million).

One “dark money” group (501c4) called

Yes. 2. Yes or no, do you support funding for Planned Parenthood?

Yes. 3. Yes or no, do you support solar energy projects that aren’t funded by state taxes?

Yes.

5. What will you look for when considering nominees for the courts and state agency heads?

Judges must have a patient temperament. Both judges and agency heads must be extremely hard-working, ethical people, have a thorough understanding of our state and federal constitutions and real-world experience in the courtroom or department they seek to administer.

4. What general approach would you take to awarding contracts?

I use a number of criteria to evaluate contracts including: how the vendor was selected to ensure it was a fair, competitive process; the vendor's ability to do the work and meet the time frame; how the contract fits with laws and policies adopted by the state; and most importantly whether the contract is the best use of taxpayer dollars.

6. How do you order your coffee at the drive-thru?

Black, always and only.

5. What will you look for when considering nominees for the courts and state agency heads?

During the confirmation process for major appointments, I focus on an individual's professional experience, community work, leadership qualities, temperament, and understanding of and vision for the role. Politics should play no role whatsoever in how nominees are chosen or in terms

Democrat Chris Pappas 1. Yes or no, do you support building a commuter rail line that connects Boston to southern New Hampshire?

Political signs in Manchester. Photo by Ryan Lessard.

One Nation, which has connections to former George W. Bush advisor Karl Rove, spent money attacking Hassan early in the campaign. It got the attention of Hassan and her backers for invoking the drug crisis and laying blame at Hassan’s feet for hampering the state’s response by vetoing the last budget. Critics called this “politicization” of a tragic situation, and even Ayotte openly denounced the ads.

“I never wanted these ads to be up there in the first place. That’s why I said, let’s do the People’s Pledge,” Ayotte said in a recent phone interview. “The thing with it is that

[outside groups and billionaires] try to get these false negative ads out there, but the candidates do still control what they stand for. But it does flood the airwaves, no doubt.”

Controlling the tone and message of one’s campaign is still possible, she contends, but these super PAC and advocacy group ads act independently of a campaign and can muddy the waters.

Early in the race, Ayotte proposed the candidates sign a People’s Pledge, which would try to limit outside spending. Hassan rejoined with her own modified People’s Pledge that added a cap to 20

of how nominees will conduct themselves in the position.

New Hampshire contractors are encouraged to apply. I will then approve "best-value" contracts which take into account price, quality, expertise, and past performance (including labor and environmental standards) in order to maximize long-term ROI for the taxpayers.

6. How do you order your coffee at the drive-thru?

I am not a coffee drinker, but I make myself tea (black) every morning at my restaurant.

District 5 Democrat Daniel Weeks 1. Yes or no, do you support building a commuter rail line that connects Boston to southern New Hampshire?

Yes. 2. Yes or no, do you support funding for Planned Parenthood?

Yes. 3. Yes or no, do you support solar energy projects that aren’t funded by state taxes?

Yes. 4. What general approach would you take to awarding contracts?

I will work with state commissioners to ensure all contracts are the result of a competitive bidding process and that qualified

5. What will you look for when considering nominees for the courts and state agency heads?

I believe individuals in appointive leadership should be capable public servants who broadly reflect New Hampshire's population. I will seek out and recommend highly qualified individuals who bring the experience, independence, and sound judgment necessary to succeed at their role, as well as a demonstrated commitment to public service and increased diversity. I do not believe in partisan/ideological tests.

6. How do you order your coffee at the drive-thru?

Sorry, Dunkin’, my wife has turned me on to tea. Or anything that’s served with New Hampshire maple syrup.

Note: Republican District 5 candidate David Wheeler did not respond by press time.

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14, HASSAN VS. AYOTTE according to political analysts, a chunk of the Republican base is now seeming less likely to turn out to vote, Ayotte needs independents more than ever to win.

“She needs three groups of people to support her to get reelected,” Saint Anselm College political science professor Chris Galdieri said.

Galdieri said Ayotte needs Trump supporters, moderate Republicans and crossover votes from independent and even Democratic voters.

And for much of this race, this strategy of aiming toward the middle of the electorate has seemed to work. From the beginning, Ayotte and Hassan were neck and neck in nearly every poll. Ayotte even pulled out a respectable 6-point lead in a Suffolk University poll in early October.

Political analyst Dean Spiliotes said that when you ignore the TV ads and just listen to the candidates, what you hear is very familiar to Granite Staters.

“I’ve talked to a lot of people about this and we all kind of sense that it feels like a fairly traditional New Hampshire-style context where there’s a lot of focus on independent voters and talking about bipartisanship and working across the aisle and putting New

Recreational pot in New England?

Though a bill to legalize and tax marijuana in New Hampshire was killed last February, the state could be bordered by one or two states with legalized marijuana after this election. Ballot measures in Massachusetts and Maine would legalize and tax the recreational use of cannabis for adults 21+.

In Massachusetts, eligible adults would be able to possess up to 1 ounce in public or 9 ounces under lock at home. It would be permissible to grow the plant outside for personal or commercial use as long as it’s not visible to the public. In Maine, a small amount would be legal to possess for personal use and people would be allowed to grow it. A proposed 10-percent tax on the plant is projected to bring in an additional $15 million in state revenue.

Recent polls show a majority in favor in both states. A WBUR poll on Oct. 19 showed a 15-point edge, with 55 percent of those in favor and 40 percent against. A late September UNH poll commissioned by the Portland Press Herald found that 53 percent of Maine respondents favored legalization over 38 percent who opposed it.

Matt Simon, New England director of the Marijuana Policy Project, said Maine and Massachusetts are the only two states in the region that can legalize pot via ballot measure.

“For that reason alone, those two states are most likely to serve as pioneers for legalization in the region,” Simon said.

A UNH poll in 2015 showed a majority of Granite Staters (54 percent) support legalization while 36 percent oppose it.

Hampshire first even when it deviates from party considerations,” Spiliotes said.

Unlike Hassan, Ayotte faced a primary challenger, former state Sen. Jim Rubens, who was partly buoyed by a conservative faction that was frustrated with all her aislereaching. While Rubens didn’t give much chase, it showed the underlying risks of crossing elements of her base.

As the non-endorsement of Trump showed earlier this year, toeing a line that didn’t alienate Trump supporters was always a consideration. Trump did win the New Hampshire primary, after all.

But the Republican candidate didn’t make it easy for Ayotte as each week seemed to bring with it some new comment or action that Trump supporters like Ayotte had to reckon with.

This came to a head during a debate between Ayotte and Hassan where Ayotte was asked if she would point to Trump as a good role model for children. Clearly struggling with the question, she settled on “absolutely” she would.

Later that night, she changed that answer by saying in a written statement that she misspoke and that neither nominee for president is a good role model.

Days later, the infamous Access Hollywood tape was released. That was the last straw.

Throwing out half measures, Ayotte announced on Oct. 8 that she would not vote for Trump, but would write in the name of Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence.

The latest poll, taken Oct. 11 to 17, shows Hassan leading with 48 percent of voters, including undecided voters pressed to choose, against Ayotte’s 39 percent — though Ayotte still has the support of Trump voters.

New reality

Over the course of the race, Hassan and Ayotte have traded barbs about women’s health care, abortion, outside spending, the drug crisis and foreign policy.

Hassan had her own problems in this campaign. In January, she gave her first full-length interview with a national news organization, Politico, and it did not go well.

In the article, the reporter noted that Hassan repeated 10 times some version of a sentence saying the race was between special interests and the people of New Hampshire.

To local reporters, Hassan’s scripted responses are old hat, but critics latched on to the awkward interview as an example of Hassan playing tee-ball in the big leagues.

This came back to haunt her again in August when, in a CNN interview, she repeatedly avoided directly answering whether she thinks Hillary Clinton is honest and trustworthy. Instead of simply saying yes as some commentators have said would have been simpler, she complimented Clinton’s record, experience and commitment and hewed to a

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number of go-to talking points about her race.

Hassan’s campaign later sent a statement clarifying that she thinks Clinton is trustworthy, but the damage was done. Video of the exchange was used by Trump surrogates at New Hampshire rallies to fire up Republican Trump supporters.

But all of that is now a distant memory. A new TV ad this month from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce makes the case for re-electing Ayotte as a check on Clinton. “Just imagine,” the ad narrator says, “what [Hassan] would do unchecked in Washington with a new president.”

This last-ditch effort to pull out a victory for Ayotte might have a chance at working if Republican turnout isn’t going to be as low as experts predict it will be. One thing working in her favor is a recent analysis that shows New Hampshire has the highest share of registered voters (10 percent according to Bloomberg) who are likely willing to split their ballot between Clinton and Republicans down ticket.

But Galdieri said cutting loose from a sinking ship this late in the game might be too little too late.

“They’ve cut loose from the ship but the ship might still drag their lifeboat along in its wake,” Galdieri said.

Red flags

There were early indicators that the presidential race, particularly the nomination of Trump, would weigh Ayotte down in this election.

And it was already going to be an uphill battle even without Trump at the top of the ticket.

“Kelly Ayotte … was in a tough position from Day 1, just because it’s a presidential election year in a state that tends to vote Democratic [in presidential years],” Galdieri said.

Ayotte, who is a close ally to South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, a presidential candidate early in the primary season, chose

to stay on the sidelines during the primary.

Ayotte may have preferred the ultimate nomination of Graham — who was a longshot — or one of the establishment Republican candidates with more moderate positions on the issues like former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie or Ohio Gov. John Kasich.

When Trump became the nominee, Ayotte was pressed to weigh in. She had said for months that she would support the Republican nominee, whoever that would be. Then in May, she said she wouldn’t endorse Trump, but she would vote for him.

“Ayotte’s had a very tough time navigating having Trump as the nominee. She didn’t endorse anybody in the primary and then, once he became the nominee, she took this supportbut-not-endorse position,” Galdieri said.

Then, Trump made disparaging remarks about a Gold Star family who spoke at the Democratic National Convention. In early August, Ayotte, who is married to a veteran, serves on the Senate Armed Services Committee and often champions veteran issues, didn’t let the comments go unanswered.

The day after Ayotte said she was “appalled” that Trump had the “gall” to compare his sacrifices to that of a family who lost a son in the Iraq war, Trump publicly criticized Ayotte for not endorsing him.

“We need loyal people in this country,” Trump told the Washington Post at the time.

“We need fighters in this country. We don’t need weak people. We have enough of them.

We need fighters in this country. But Kelly Ayotte has given me zero support, and I’m doing great in New Hampshire.”

Three days later, in an effort to show more party unity, Trump offered his endorsements of Ayotte, Arizona Sen. John McCain and House Speaker Paul Ryan.

Campaign signs in Goffstown. Ryan Lessard photo.

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In New Hampshire, Trump leads among voters with a high school education or less (47 percent to 32 percent) while Clinton is doing better with college educated voters (47 percent to 30 percent).

These factors are working against Trump, but the story the polls tell is more directly related to recent events. In particular, analysts point to the 2005 tape of Trump on the set of Access Hollywood talking in lewd detail about groping women.

While many of Trump’s past comments shocked and awed, they were easily dismissed as aspects of his bombastic personality. These comments, though, have been dubbed by media commentators and politicians on both sides of the aisle as descriptions of “sexual assault.”

The fallout was immediate, with major Republicans who supported him in the past — including New Hampshire’s own Sen. Kelly Ayotte — withdrawing support and announcing their intention to vote for someone else in the election.

It was poorly timed for Trump as the tapes were released just before the second debate.

After denying when asked by moderators if he had ever done the things he described to women, Trump faced allegations from multiple women who emerged to accuse him of sexually assaulting them in the past.

Early state polls that came out soon after showed little effect among voters; in fact, a WBUR/MassInc poll showed the race in New Hampshire tightening between Trump and Hillary with a difference of 3 percentage points. But Smith said that’s not too surprising, since it usually takes about two weeks for an election event like this to sink in with voters. The more recent UNH polls, Smith said, reflects the fallout of those comments for Trump and other GOP candidates in New Hampshire. Clinton, who already led in the state by 9 points in August, gained another 6 after the video.

Riptide year

The party of Lincoln seems to be in dire straits, with some columnists already writing its obituary. This started during the Republican National Convention and continued after Trump called House Speaker Paul Ryan —

the highest-ranking elected official in the GOP — a “weak and ineffective leader” on Twitter.

Saint Anselm College political science professor Chris Galdieri said these developments are historic.

“I think what we’re seeing on the presidential side is a Republican party that just does not know what to do with itself. You’ve never had a situation where you have so many people within the party explicitly rejecting their party’s nominee,” Galdieri said. “Even if you go back to past blowouts like Barry Goldwater in 1964, what you saw were a lot of Republicans who would not want to talk about it, or just decline to say who they were going to vote for. … This is just literally unprecedented, what we’re seeing.”

Scala said this affects the New Hampshire GOP as well.

“New Hampshire Republicans going forward would face some difficulties if they become kind of identified as the party of ‘angry white voters,’” Scala said. “That’s an identity problem that the Republicans need to solve.”

Assuming this year is going to be a big success for Democrats in New Hampshire and beyond, how would that compare to past “wave” years?

Spiliotes said the 2006 Democratic takeover and the 2010 Tea Party wave were both reactions to unpopular incumbents, presidential administrations from the opposite party and frustrations over current events (like the war in Iraq for 2006 and the recession in 2010). They were also both midterm elections. The 2008 election, which saw Barack Obama get elected (then a junior Senator who seemed like the outsider in the primary against Hillary Clinton) and Democrats keeping their majorities in the House and Senate.

But that is not a wave year in the strictest definition, Spiliotes said.

How does all this compare to 2016? If the predictions of a Democratic takeover in New Hampshire — and to a lesser extent in Congress — become a reality, it will be thanks to forces that behave like the opposite of a wave.

“It’s almost like in the reverse direction. … It’s sort of the reverse of the normal 20

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dynamics of a wave election,” Spiliotes said.

Rather than Democrats being propped up by a swell of support for their nominee or united by a common enemy in the form of an unpopular incumbent, war or economic woes, Spiliotes said Republicans might be pulled out to sea by a riptide.

Key to all of this is party unity. While divisions are clear at the national level, they’ve also played a part in New Hampshire.

Republicans are not campaigning as a team.

Some major GOP candidates like Ayotte and gubernatorial candidate Chris Sununu called on Republican Congressional District 1 Congressman Frank Guinta to resign last year over his campaign finance problems. Some candidates support Trump unapologetically while others hedge or don’t support him at all. Ayotte and Guinta, both incumbents, faced primary challengers, while their opponents ultimately did not.

New Hampshire Democratic Party Chair Raymond Buckley says GOP candidates are fighting like it’s every man for themselves.

Meanwhile, he says Democratic candidates are running as a team from the top down.

“The real big difference is we have a ticket that is united and working together,” he said.

It’s also well funded compared to past elections. Buckley said thanks to an aggressive fundraising campaign that started last year, they had a stronger grassroots infrastructure. In 2012, they had about 110 to 120 field workers and about 18 offices. This year, they have about 150 field workers and 27 offices. And if you’ve seen a lot of mailers from the NHDP, Buckley said they’ve spent

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campaign spending.

“In general, it’s hard to enforce those sorts Campaign finance numbers Total outside spending Kelly Ayotte: $38,715,064 Maggie Hassan: $33,447,281 Top super PACs • Granite State Solutions Super PAC Conservative $18,657,191 • Senate Majority PAC Super PAC Liberal $11,369,239 • Democratic Senatorial Campaign Cmte PAC Liberal $7,614,170 • National Republican Senatorial Cmte PAC Conservative $6,807,167 Source: OpenSecrets.org

“a couple million” on that this year.

Down ticket

As recently as Oct. 6, Sen. Kelly Ayotte was running ahead of Trump, apparently not getting bogged down by the negative associations with the top of her party’s ticket, when a Suffolk University poll showed her leading Gov. Maggie Hassan in the U.S. Senate race by 6 percentage points.

Now, the tables have turned. Ayotte is trailing Hassan by 8 points among likely voters and 9 points when undecided voters are pressed to make a choice, according to an Oct. 20 UNH poll.

The 2nd Congressional District is considered safe for Democrats either way, so political analysts like Dean Spiliotes predict incumbent Ann Kuster will handily defeat her Republican challenger, Jim Lawrence.

“The district has, in the years that I’ve lived in New Hampshire, I’ve watched it gradually shift to the left. That doesn’t seem to be changing,” Spiliotes said.

He said even before recent events Democrats were considered to have an edge in House races, but the 1st Congressional District (between Republican Frank Guinta and Democrat Carol Shea-Porter) would probably have been tight if Clinton’s unpopularity were to depress Democratic and independent turnout.

While turnout seems to favor Democrats based on more recent polls, Spiliotes said another wild card is independent candidate Shawn O’Connor, who originally ran as a Democrat in the primary. O’Connor’s campaign has outspent Shea-Porter’s but hasn’t raised as much.

of things in a race featuring an incumbent, because incumbents are able to raise money much more easily from political action committees, which tend to be from outside of the state. So, for the most part, outside spending tends to advantage non-incumbents,” Boatright said.

Ayotte hedges when asked about campaign finance reform that includes overturning Citizens United, the Supreme Court ruling that opened the floodgates of outside spending, saying she wants to be careful not to infringe on First Amendment rights.

Hassan says she wants to overturn it.

“That’s why I consistently work for campaign finance reform, first in the New Hampshire state Senate. Right after Citizens United was passed, I worked on a state-level disclosure bill. Then and now I support overturning Citizens United,” Hassan said in a phone interview.

Some of the trends with spending for the presidential race are having some impact now on the Senate race. Boatright said Republican donors were holding back on giving to Trump. Now that many are seeing his chances as a bad bet, they’re focusing on Congressional races.

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In another UNH poll released Oct. 20, Democrat Colin Van Ostern came out ahead of Republican Chris Sununu in the governor’s race, 41 to 35 percent. When undecided voters are included, the gap shortens to 44 to 38 percent. However, a majority of voters are still undecided and Sununu leads slightly among independent voters with 35 percent to Van Ostern’s 31 percent. Just weeks before, Sununu was ahead of Van Ostern in a Suffolk poll by 4 points.

Many of the rosier scenarios for state Republican candidates hinge on a narrow victory for Clinton, according to Scala.

“If Trump loses by 4 points in New Hampshire, then that’s not so bad. Because maybe Ayotte wins narrowly, maybe Sununu wins narrowly and maybe Republicans keep their majority in the state legislature,” Scala said.

“But if it’s not 4 points, if it’s 7 or 10, that’s another order of magnitude of difficulty that down-ticket Republicans face.”

So Clinton’s 15-point lead in the most recent poll could mean a virtual Democratic takeover. This is mostly to do with turnout trends.

While Republican voters may not have anything against the Republican candidates down the ticket, their disenchantment with Trump may demotivate them from going to the voting booth.

“When that happens … when the leaders of a party are in disarray and renouncing the party’s nominee or distancing themselves, you probably get a lot of people who just get disgusted and stay home,” Galdieri said.

Smith says that besides the 75 percent GOP support for Trump (see page 15), there are some signs in the polling process that might lend credence to the likelihood of low Republican turnout. He points to something called the Spiral of Silence theory.

“If people perceive their candidate to be ... unpopular, a candidate who’s not socially acceptable, they’re less likely to put a yard sign in their yard or a bumper sticker on their car, they’re less likely to talk to their neighbors at cocktail parties and so forth about their support for a candidate and they’re also less likely to talk with pollsters about it,” Smith said.

While conducting the UNH polls, Smith found it harder than usual to get Republicans on the phone. That, he says, tends to correspond to low turnout.

Recent polls also showed a strong Democratic advantage in the New Hampshire House, Senate and Executive Council.

The balance of power in New Hampshire is precarious and easily swayed, but to understand just how overwhelming a force the election year is expected to be, one need only look at what’s happening with the U.S. House, which before the Access Hollywood tape came out was expected by all to continue to have a Republican majority. Now even that safety is in doubt.

And if there isn’t a divided government — or even if there’s a less divided government — at the federal level, experts say chances are the Granite State won’t have a divided government either. That will be a change of pace we haven’t seen since before the 2010 midterms.

“Clinton has a huge financial advantage over Trump. In terms of her own money, it’s been more like three to one,” Boatright said.

“Trump has not been effective at raising money. He’s not managed to motivate traditional Republican donors. People who contribute to super PACs have looked more and more at the Senate. So there’s a huge difference.”

This might have given Ayotte a slight boost in recent weeks. Boatright said a conservative super PAC that formed seemingly overnight called Senate Leadership Fund has disclosed more than $50 million in independent expenditures, with more than $20 million from casino tycoon Sheldon Adelson. It’s planning on spending more than $20 million in six battleground states including New Hampshire, but we won’t fully know how much they’ve spent in the state until after the election.

But this year Republican ad spending has been divided and decentralized overall.

Boatright said this is a symptom of an ideological split within the party, despite efforts by some like Rove to set himself up as the go-to central fundraiser for Republican candidates. Other folks like South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint have raised money from other

factions within the party.

Meanwhile, Democratic groups are working together to make sure spending in New Hampshire is coordinated in support of Hassan.

“These groups can talk to each other about what they are doing, so there’s clearly a coordinated strategy to spend money on behalf of Hassan and to have everybody effectively take their turn so that nobody’s stomping over everybody else,” Boatright said.

So one week you’ll see ads funded by Planned Parenthood and the next week ads by the League of Conservation Voters.

In the end, however, it’s likely all the ad spending will amount to an arms race that keeps all things equal, since spending on each side is about equal.

Political analyst Dean Spiliotes says the spending outcome will likely be a wash and the race will depend on the larger forces of the presidential race. The big winners from all this spending will be the TV stations. In retrospect, this may leave big donors and PACs to reevaluate their strategies.

“I think this is something that will be researched for many years to come,” Spiliotes said.

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MAILERS AND WHO PAYS FOR THEM Because of the way super PAC and dark money group spending is tracked, finding out how much they spend on the printed fliers you get in the mail is not easy to trace back. TV ads are still the biggest expenditure and it’s not only a line item on federal disclosures but is further itemized by the TV stations that make the receipts publicly available.

Looking at the federal disclosures, spending on a media consulting firm does not clarify whether it is for printed mailers, something else or some mix that includes mailers.

We examined some of the fliers we got in the mail recently to find out who is paying for them.

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The source: One Nation, a 501c4 “dark money” group co-founded by Karl Rove. This mailer bashes Gov. Maggie Hassan for supporting the Iran nuclear deal. One Nation is focusing its spending on propping up GOP incumbents in battleground states. As an issue advocacy group, it cannot openly support a candidate as long as it wants to avoid filing with the FEC, so it usually creates attack ads against their opponents.

The source: New Hampshire Democratic Party. This takes jabs at Sen. Kelly Ayotte for receiving “millions” in campaign donations from the Koch brothers and big corporations.

The NHDP has spent money supporting their own candidates and attacking GOP opponents.

The source: Republican National Committee. This flier takes aim at Hillary Clinton by claiming she will fill the Supreme Court with liberal judges. The RNC has propped up Trump’s campaign infrastructure in a way that hasn’t been seen with past presidential nominees, according to Clark professor Robert Boatright.

The source: Live Free PAC, a Washington, D.C., PAC. This ad attempts to paint Democratic gubernatorial nominee Colin Van Ostern as a D.C., insider. The Live Free PAC appears to be fairly new, having registered with the state on Aug. 10, according to the Secretary of State website.

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Call 224-2183 or visit nhyogacenter.com to sign up.

Join the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen’s Nashua Fine Craft Gallery (98 Main St.) for an autumnthemed Zentangle workshop from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Learn to create Zentangle Inspired Art and take home a leaf-motif piece to decorate your house for the fall. Previous experience is suggested but not required. The cost is $22 for tuition and a $10 fee for materials. Call 595-8233 or visit nashua.nhcrafts.org.

EAT: a gluten-free Thanksgiving meal

Learn to make gluten-free winter quinoa, cornbread muffins made into a corn bread stuffing, a pumpkin jelly roll with cream cheese filling and more at a Thanksgiving-themed cooking demo at Milford Town Hall (1 Union Square).

The class will be taught by award-winning TV chef and author Oonagh Williams and will be held on Thursday, Oct. 27, from 7 to 9 p.m.

The cost is $45 for Milford residents and $50 for non-residents. Call 424-6412 ir visit milford.nh.gov for more details.

Sunday, Oct. 30

Grammy Award-winning folk rock duo Indigo Girls will perform at the Capitol Center for the Arts (44 S. Main St., Concord) at 7:30 p.m. Singer-songwriters Amy Ray and Emily Sailers experienced commercial success and critical acclaim from their 1989 self-titled release, which includes the hit single “Closer to Fine.” Tickets are $45. Call 225-1111 or visit ccanh.com to buy tickets.

DRINK: wine from Fulchino Vineyard

Learn about some of the most popular wines from around the Fulchino Vineyard at a wine tasting at Extra Touch Gourmet Cafe (4 Hawthorne Drive, Bedford) on Thursday, Oct. 27, from 6 to 8 p.m. Hors d’oeuvres and wine are included in the cost of the ticket, which starts at $15. Call 4886620 or visit extratouchgourmet.com.

Wednesday, Nov. 2

NHTI (31 College Drive, Concord) will hold its annual fall open house from 4 to 6:30 p.m. in the Wellness Center Gym. The event is an opportunity for prospective students to learn about the college’s 90 academic programs, meet current and former students and tour the campus. Drop-in campus tours are also available weekly on Tuesdays. Admission is free. Call 230-4011 or visit nhti.edu for more details.

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Don’t miss the second annual Queen City Art and Craft Festival at the Radisson (700 Elm St., Manchester) on Friday, Oct. 28, from 2 to 7 p.m.; Saturday, Oct. 29, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Sunday, Oct. 30, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. More than 100 art, craft and food vendors will be on hand to offer food sampling, craft demonstrations and much more. The cost is $8 for adults and free for children for the entire weekend. Visit craftproducers.com for more details.

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N is for New Hampshire shows off New Hampshire in a way you probably haven’t seen before.

The alphabet book was written by Rebecca Rule with photos by Scott Snyder, and it’s dedicated to the Old Man of the Mountain. Islandport Press releases it this November, with a book launch at MainStreet BookEnds Sunday, Oct. 30, at 2 p.m.

The assignment gave Rule, of Northwood, and Snyder, of Henniker, a place to unleash photos and stories that have been waiting for eyes and ears.

“All my books, really, are receptacles for storytelling. And I’ve been telling stories for a long, long time,” said Rule, a New Hampshire storyteller and author of many books, including three by Islandport Press: The Iciest, Diciest, Scariest Sled Ride Ever!, Live Free and Eat Pie! A Storyteller’s Guide to New Hampshire and Headin’ for the Rhubarb: A New Hampshire Dictionary (well, kinda). “I have so many stories and nowhere to put them.

There’s a lot to write about in New Hampshire. … If you live here long enough, you get to learn a lot about it.”

With each letter in the book is a rhyme, photo and 200-word New Hampshire story. “F is for Fairs” is illustrated with a nighttime scene at the Hopkinton State N is for New Hampshire book launch Where: MainStreet BookEnds, 16 E. Main St., Warner When: Sunday, Oct. 30, at 2 p.m.

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An image from N is for New Hampshire. Photo by Scott Snyder.

Fair. A blue and white carousel stands in the back, and up front are giant slides and games under carnival lights. The “M is for Maple Syrup” page describes how the sweet stuff is made, and it sits alongside a photo of the Heritage Farm Pancake House in Sanbornton.

Some tell a bit of history, like “L is for Lilac,” which details how the first lilacs in the country were planted by Benning Wentworth in the mid 1700s. Or “C is for Chinook,” New Hampshire’s state dog, first bred in 1917. (It was named after a real dog named Chinook, who led the first dog team up Mount Washington and embarked on a South Pole expedition with explorer Admiral Richard Byrd at age 12, only to walk off into the Antarctic and disappear.)

But Rule said her favorites are the whimsical pages, like “X marks the spot,” which sits along a bright, sunny picture

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from Star Island and is accompanied by a legend about the Isles of Shoals — the same place, supposedly, where Blackbeard stashed his pirate treasure.

For some letters, she looked to her library of New Hampshirethemed books.

Others use tales she’s heard or told before. Some original ideas made the cut and some didn’t, like the yellow snow in her “S is for Snow” rhyme and her “U is for UFO” page. (“I wanted to do ‘B is for Betty and Barney Hill,’ or ‘U is for UFO,’ but we couldn’t seem to get any UFO pictures,” Rule said, laughing.)

On the cover is the image for “J is for Jacob’s Ladder,” about Sylvester Marsh and his quest to build the “impossible railway” from the base to the summit of Mount Washington. Snyder rode the railway in the middle of the summer to get the photos, and when he got to the top, a couple inches of snow sat on the ground.

By the afternoon it had melted, and it was 60 degrees the rest of the day.

Other topics include the African Burial Ground in Portsmouth, the 100-plus waterfalls in the Granite State, the tides of Great Bay, the Kancamagus Highway and the Ocean Born Mary, a legendary red-headed ghost whose gravestone (Mary Wallace) stands in Henniker, not far from Snyder’s home.

These new tales startled and delighted Snyder, who traveled from the coast to the Canadian border to photograph. The rest come from his landscape photography portfolio.

“To be able to repurpose those photos to be part of the book was really great,” he said. “The assignment was awesome for me. I don’t often get an assignment where I get to shoot what I want. The only restriction I had was we needed to have things in by deadline. …

There were things I had no idea about, even in my hometown.”

Which, Rule said, was one of her goals in creating the book’s text.

“I hope these are stories that will surprise people,” Rule said.

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• Winter holiday season approaching: After Halloween, a couple art centers jump right into the winter shopping season. One is Studio 550, at 550 Elm St., Manchester, which hosts two shows: its 4th Annual Cup Sale, on view Nov. 4 through Jan. 6, and the Women’s Caucus for Art New Hampshire 6x6 art show, composed of 6-inch by 6-inch panels designed by dozens of artists from around the state, up during the same period. Openings for both are Friday, Nov. 4, from 5 to 7 p.m. Visit 550arts.com or call 232-5597.

In Hollis, the Wild Salamander Creative Arts Center’s (30 Ash St., Hollis, 465-9453, wildsalamander.com) annual “Good Things Come in Small Packages” art show runs Nov. 4 through Dec. 23 and features work by local and regional artists who’ve created small, dynamic and affordable works of art for gift-giving.

There’s an opening reception Friday, Nov. 4, from 6 to 8 p.m. That same weekend, the art center also celebrates a re-opening of The Wild Little Art Shop, which has gone through a complete renovation, on Saturday, Nov. 5, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.,

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• Soon-to-be-president: Artist Joseph Wardwell’s upcoming show, “Soon I Will Be President,” is on view Nov. 3 through Dec. 17 at Southern New Hampshire’s University’s McIninch Art Gallery, 2500 N. River Road, Manchester, with an opening reception and artist talk on Thursday, Nov. 3, from 5 to 7 p.m.

The artwork features “two seemingly opposed sources,” as described on the gallery website — the sublime landscapes of the Hudson River Valley School and punk rock lyrics that reflect voices of dissent. In the images, text is layered over the landscapes and camouflaged with abstract paint strokes. Visit snhu.edu/ student-experience/campus-experience/ mcininch-art-gallery.

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Art Events • CURRIER MUSEUM OF ART AFTER HOURS: HOLIDAY EXTRAVAGANZA Regional artisans selling work one night selling handmade crafts. Music, food, poetry reading, cocktails. $5 extra charge to see new show, “Mount Washington: The Crown of New England.” Thurs., Nov. 3, 6-9 p.m.

Currier Museum of Art, 150 Ash St., Manchester. Free with museum admission. Visit currier.org.

• CENTER FOR THE ARTS: FIRST FRIDAY Open shows at New London micro galleries, featuring 22 regional artists. Fri., Nov. 4, 5-7 p.m. New London.

Call 526-4444. Visit centerfortheartsnh.org.

• NH OPEN DOORS Self-led statewide tour to NH art studios, workshops, galleries, food venues, etc. Nov. 5 through Nov. 6.

Free. Visit nhopendoors.com for participating venues.

• ALZHEIMER’S CAFE Wed., Nov. 9, 2-4 p.m. Currier Museum of Art, 150 Ash St., Manchester.

Free. Visit currier.org.

Fairs • BEDFORD HANDMADE FAIR Proceeds benefit class of 2018 plus Manchester Animal Shelter, BHS Girls’ Hockey Club. Sun., Nov. 6, from 9 a.m.3 p.m. Bedford High School, 47 Nashua Road, Bedford. Visit the Facebook page or website for more info.

Open calls • CALL FOR ARTISTS: CRAFT FAIR YMCA Craft Fair. Sat., Nov. 12, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

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cancer. On view Oct. 28 through Dec. 31. Reception Thurs., Oct. 27, 5-7 p.m. Mill Falls Marketplace, 312 DW Highway, Meredith. Visit millfalls.com. Call 279-7006.

• ROBERT COLMAN Art show. On view Oct. 17 through Nov. 19. Opening Sat., Oct. 29, 6-9 p.m. Washington Street Mills, One Washington St., Dover.

• “PAINTING WITH DRAWING” Exhibition of new work

by Debra Claffey, using encaustic and mixed media. On view Nov. 1 through Dec. 9. Opening Fri., Nov. 4, 5:30-7 p.m. New Hampton School, Galletly Gallery, 70 Main St., New Hampton. Visit newhampton.org. Call 677-3480.

• LINDA H. FEINBERG Artist show. On view through December. Reception Thurs., Nov. 3, 5:30-7 p.m. Provident Bank, 115 River Road, Bedford. Visit lindafeinberg.com.

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• They will rock you: The Nashua Actorsingers’ fall production is Rock of Ages, and it happens Friday, Oct. 28, at 8 p.m.; Saturday, Oct. 29, at 8 p.m.; and Sunday, Oct. 30, at 2 p.m., at the Keefe Center for the Arts, 117 Elm St., Nashua. The event is the New Hampshire community theater premiere and, set in the late ’80s on Sunset Strip, tells the story of a small-town girl named Sherrie and a boy from South Detroit named Drew who “want to know what love is” in the world of sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll, with songs by Styx, Pat Benatar, Twisted Sister, Steve Perry, Poison and more. “What is so great about this show is that people who like musicals will obviously enjoy it, but so will people who don’t,” Melissa Runde, who plays Justice the Venus Club Dancer, said in a press release. The show is directed by Paul Metzger, musically directed by Amanda Morgan and choreographed by Jen Sassak. Tickets range in price, $18 to $20; visit actorsingers.org or call 320-1870. The musical is rated 14-plus for mild adult themes.

• NH native in 20th-century Rent tour: Kaleb Wells, who went to Pinkerton Academy as a teen, performs as Roger in the 20th anniversary tour of Rent, which stops at the Capitol Center for the Arts, 44 S. Main St., Concord, on Thursday, Nov. • “SOON I WILL BE PRESIDENT” Art show featuring work

by Joe Wardwell. On view Nov. 3 through Dec. 17. Reception Thurs., Nov. 3, 5-7 p.m. SNHU, McIninch Art Gallery, 2500 N. River Road, Manchester. Visit snhu.edu/art, call 629-4622.

• 4TH ANNUAL CUP SHOW & SALE Curated collection of cups, mugs, tumblers. Most priced between $25 and $55. On view Nov. 4 through Jan. 6. Reception Fri., Nov. 4, 5-7 p.m. Studio 550, 550 Elm St., Manchester. Visit 550arts. com. Call 232-5597.

• “2016, A STATE OF MIND: BOSTON PRINTMAKERS” Exhibition featuring works of nearly 150 artist members from The Boston Printmakers. On view Nov. 1 through Dec. 10. Reception Fri., Nov. 4, 5-7 p.m. Phillips Exeter, Lamont Gallery, 11 Tan Lane, Exeter. Visit exeter.edu/ lamontgallery. Call 777-3461.

• “WHAT ARTISTS LOOK LIKE 2016” Portraits of local artists and their work by Jay Goldsmith. On view Nov. 4 through Dec. 23. Opening Fri., Nov. 4, 5-8 p.m. Discover Portsmouth Center, 10 Middle St., Portsmouth. Visit portsmouthhistory. org. Call 436-8433.

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The cast of the Nashua Actorsingers’ fall production, Rock of Ages. J. Gagnon Photography.

3, at 7:30 p.m. The play is a re-imagining of Puccini’s La Boheme and follows a year in the lives of seven artists struggling to follow their dreams without selling out. It won the 1996 Tony Award for Best Musical and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Tickets are $45 to $100. Visit ccanh.com or call 225-1111.

• World-renowned organist in Nashua: Organist Ken Cowan performs in concert, “Happy 90th Grande Dame! Works by Bach, Liszt, Whitlock and Others,” part of the First Music Concert Series at the First Church Nashua, UCC, 1 Concord St., Nashua, on Friday, Oct. 28, at 7:30 p.m. It’s the opener of a season of music celebrating the completed restoration and tonal expansion of the historic Anderson Memorial Organ at the First Church. Admission is free. Visit first-music.org, email info@first-music.org or call 882-4861.

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state. Each priced at $66. On view Nov. 4 through Jan. 6. reception Fri., Nov. 4, 5-7 p.m. Studio 550, 550 Elm St., Manchester. Visit 550arts.com.

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• “GOOD THINGS COME IN SMALL PACKAGES” On view Nov. 4 through Dec. 23. Reception Fri., Nov. 4, 6-8 p.m. Wild Salamander Arts Center, 30 Ash St., Hollis. Visit wildsalamander.com. Call 465-WILD. Theater Productions • ABIGAIL/1702 Merrimack Rep production by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa. Performances Oct. 12 through Nov. 6. Nancy L. Donahue Theatre, 50 E. Merrimack St., Lowell. $26$70. Visit mrt.org or call 978-6544678.

• IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE Oct. 21 through Nov. 9. Leddy Center for the Performing Arts, 38C Ladd's Lane, Epping. $20. Visit leddycenter. org.

• THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS Palace Theatre production. Oct. 21 through Nov. 12. Palace Theatre, 80 Hanover St., Manchester. $25-$45. Visit palacetheatre.org.

• CANDID CANDIDATE New World Theatre production. Oct. 21 through Nov. 6. Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m., 2 p.m. Sundays.

Hatbox Theatre, 270 Loudon Road,

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• ROCK OF AGES Actorsingers production; NH community theater premiere. For audiences ages 14 and older for mild adult themes. Fri., Oct. 28, at 8 p.m.; Sat., Oct. 29, at 8 p.m.; Sun., Oct. 30, at 2 p.m. Keefe Center for the Arts, 117 Elm St., Nashua. $18-$20. Visit actorsingers.org. Call 320-1870.

• BITTER PILL: THE SONGS OF BILLY BUTLER AS CONCEPTUALIZED BY THE MAD MEN OF OOPSY DAISY INC. Presented by New Theater Works. Oct. 14-30, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., Sundays at 7 p.m., final performance Sun., Oct. 30 at 3 p.m. The Players' Ring, 105 Marcy St., Portsmouth. $15. Visit playersring.org or call 436-8123.

• OUT OF ORDER Bedford Off Broadway production. Fri., Oct. 28, at 8 p.m.; Sat., Oct. 29, at 8 p.m.; Sun., Oct. 30, at 2 p.m.; Fri., Nov. 4, at 8 p.m.; Sat., Nov. 5, at 8 p.m. Bedford Old Town Hall, 3 Meetinghouse Road, Bedford. General admission $12, $10 for children and seniors.

Visit bedfordoffbroadway.com.

• DRACULA Northeastern Ballet Theatre production. Sat., Oct. 29, at 7 p.m. Kingswood Arts Center, Wolfeboro. $20. Visit northeasternballet.org. Call 834-8834.

• TALES TOLD Moth-inspired

event, theme "Thanks and Giving."

Tues., Nov. 1, at 7:30 p.m. Hatbox Theatre, 270 Loudon Road, Concord. $16.50. Visit talestoldproductions. com.

• THE SCARLET LETTER For grades 7 to 12. Wed., Nov. 2, at 10 a.m. Capitol Center for the Arts, 44 S. Main St., Concord. Visit ccanh. com, call 225-1111.

• JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH, JR. Palace Teen Apprentice Company production. Wed., Nov. 2, at 7:30 p.m.; Thurs., Nov. 3, at 7:30 p.m.

• ALMOST MAINE Windham High School Theater production. Thurs., Nov. 3, at 7 p.m.; Fri., Nov. 4, at 7 p.m.; Sat., Nov. 5, at 2 and 7 p.m.

Windham High School, 64 London Bridge Road, Windham. $10.

• THE LARAMIE PROJECT: 10 YEARS LATER Anselmian Abbey Players production. Thurs., Nov. 3, at 7:30 p.m.; Fri., Nov. 4, at 7:30 p.m.; Sat., Nov. 5, at 7:30 p.m. Dana Center for the Humanities, 100 Saint Anselm Drive, Manchester. $14.

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• RENT: 20TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR National Tour. Thurs., Nov. 3, at 7:30 p.m. Capitol Center for the Arts, 44 S. Main St., Concord. $35-$100. Visit ccanh.com, call 2251111.

• WEST SIDE STORY Riverbend Youth Company's 100th production.

Fri., Nov. 4, at 7:30 p.m.; Sat., Nov. 5, at 2:30 and 7:30 p.m.; Sun., Nov. 6, at 2:30 p.m. Amato Center for the Performing Arts, 56 Mont Vernon St., Milford. $12. Visit amatocenter. org.

• ANNIE Derryfield School production. Fri., Nov. 4, at 7 p.m.; Sat., Nov. 5, at 7 p.m. Th Derryfield School, 2108 River Road, Manchester. $12.

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• SHE WILL LEAD: WOMEN IN POLITICS New work by Catherine Stewart. NH Theatre Project production. Nov. 4 through Nov. 13, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., Sundays at 2 p.m. West End Studio Theatre, 959 Islington St., Portsmouth. $28. Call 431-6644, ext. 5, visit nhtheatreproject.org.

Classical Music Events • HAPPY 90TH GRANDE DAME! WORKS BY BACH, LISZT, WHITLOCK & OTHERS Concert featuring organist Ken Cowan.

Part of First Music Concert Series.

Fri., Oct. 28, at 7:30 p.m. The First Church, 1 Concord St., Nashua. Free.

Call 882-4861. Visit first-music.org.

• SINGING WITH SWING Featuring Vintage Vocal Quartet. Sun., Oct. 30, at 4 p.m. Concord City Auditorium, 2 Prince St., Concord. $28-$38.

Visit ccanh.com for tickets.

• "SCHUBERT HEARING DON GIOVANNI: MOZARTIAN DEATH MUSIC IN THE 'UNFINISHED' SYMPHONY" Lecture featuring Glenn Stanley. Thurs., Nov. 3, at 5 p.m. Paul Creative Arts Center, 30 Academic Way, Durham.

Free. Visit unh.edu/music.

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Trick-or-treat, take selfies in costumes with cosplayers and superheroes and enjoy old-fashioned throwback playground games along North Main Street during Concord’s annual Halloween Howl.

The free event, tailored to the younger crowd of trick-or-treaters, will return on Friday, Oct. 28, with road closures beginning at 4 p.m. and festivities held from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

More than 75 surrounding businesses will open their doors to trick-or-treaters. Some even get creative with costumes and Halloween-themed lights of their own.

“In a typical year, we have about 5,000 people come out,” said Susan Sokul, event and communications coordinator for Intown Concord, which organizes the Howl every year.

“It’s just a really fun wholesome sugar-fueled evening. … There is plenty going on and it’s really cool to see the creativity of some of the businesses.”

Sokul said any business in the vicinity of the festivities can participate, and how they choose to do so is usually up to them.

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“People can expect a variety of things,” she said. “Sometimes they have a walk-through inside, and others are set up outside. Some decorate like crazy and create a Halloween motif where you would approach and get the candy … so you might be walking in and getting candy and enjoy creative Halloween decorations or a setup that adds even more fun to the night.”

But that’s just one fun feature of Halloween Howl. Liza Poinier, Intown Concord’s operations manager, said there are several other downtown events to look forward to.

“It’s really a party in the middle of the street,” Poinier said. “The biggest features are probably the dance party and the costume parade. At 6 p.m., the kids all line up for the costume parade that will start at the Clock

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Members of the Concord Fire Department and the Motorcycle and Mountain Bike Unit of the Police Department will also be visiting the Howl to interact with the community, offering their vehicles for kids to check out, Poinier said.

“We always have police and fire there for security, obviously, but this year they will be there more to interact with their community as well,” Poinier said. “We’ve kind of done that on and off over the years.”

New to this year’s Howl will be old-school playground games like hopscotch, jump rope and foursquare, in the middle of Main Street,

thanks to Intown Concord’s partnership with the city’s Parks and Recreation Department.

“It will be a fun throwback element that doesn’t have any calories or sugar,” Poinier said.

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“We’ll also have a hanging doughnut game courtesy of Dunkin’ Donuts where plain doughnuts will be hung on a pole and kids compete to eat the doughnuts with their hands behind their back,” Sokul said.

A continuing trend that’s been emerging at the Howl over the past couple years has been adult cosplayers dressed as superheroes, princesses and others, not to trick-or-treat, but to take photos with the kids. “[Double Midnight Comics] started bringing their superheroes, and then once their other networks heard about it, we started getting pockets of people who found out about the Howl to come and show off their costumes,” Poinier said. “It’s been really fun to see some of the cosplayers get swarmed by all the little kids wanting to get their picture taken with them.”

Sokul added that it’s become an annual show to watch the cosplayers while kids wait in line to trick-or-treat.

“You see characters of all shapes and sizes decorating the streets and they actually act the parts, so that makes it really fun too,” she said.

Other offerings at the Howl will include a performance by the Nashville-based roots rock group Dusty Gray from 6 to 8 p.m. in Bicentennial Square. Restaurants like Puppy Love Hot Dogs and Bike and Bean will be selling hot dogs, coffee and more for the duration of the event.

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Don’t miss the annual Fall Fright Night Festival at Greeley Park (100 Concord St., Nashua) on Friday, Oct. 28, from 4 to 8:30 p.m. The evening will feature a haunted hayride and maze, a costume parade with prizes, bouncy houses, face-painting and more. Admission is free. Call the Nashua Parks and Recreation Department at 5893370 or visit nashuanh.gov for more details.

The Wilton Main Street Association will be presenting The Haunting of Wilton starting on Saturday, Oct. 29, at 11 a.m.

The day-long event kicks off with a costumed 5K to benefit the WMSA and the Wilton-Lyndeborough Coop Warriors Athletic Booster Club. The race T-shirt will be designed by the winner of a T-shirt design contest. Immediately following the race will be a full day of family-friendly spooky events beginning at noon, including trick-or-treating, pumpkin-carving, face-painting, a scavenger hunt, a movie screening at the Town Hall Theater, stories and lighted pumpkins down Main Street.

Pumpkins may be carved during the day or at home and dropped off in the park for judging in the pumpkin carving contest.

Admission to most of the festivities is free.

The cost to register for the 5K is $25 for adults and $10 for kids ages 12 and under.

Call 654-3020 or go to visitwilton.com/thehaunting for more details.

Join the Manchester City Library (405 Pine St.) for its annual Halloween party and costume parade on Monday, Oct. 31, from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Winchell Room.

The library will offer a trick-or-treating and costume parade beginning at 7 p.m., in addition to several other storytelling, crafts and fun spooky activities. Costumes are encouraged and all ages are welcome. Call 624-6550, ext. 3328, or visit manchester. lib.nh.us for more information.

Join Fright Kingdom (12 Simon St., Nashua) for its annual Hardly Haunted event on Sunday, Oct. 30, from 1 to 4 p.m. Kids of all ages can enjoy a kid-friendly haunted house tour and then party with Fright Kingdom’s monsters. Tickets are $8 and are available on the day of. Call 8091173 or visit frightkingdom.com.

Celebrate Halloween at the Aviation Museum of New Hampshire (27 Navigator Road, Londonderry) during its “Not so Spooky” Storytime on Saturday, Oct. 29, at 11 a.m. Enjoy a selection of Halloween stories prepared by a special guest followed by trick-or-treating throughout the museum. Trick-or-treaters will be treated

to candy and aviation fun facts during their route. Craft projects will also be offered inside the Museum’s classroom. Regular Museum admission applies. The cost is $5 for adults, $4 for veterans and seniors over 60 years old, $2.50 for youth ages 12 to 16, and free for children under 12 and for Museum members. There is a $15 maximum cost per family. Call 669-4820 or visit nhahs.org.

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Cowabunga’s Indoor Inflatable Playground (1328 Hooksett Road, Hooksett) will host its fifth annual Halloween Party on Friday, Oct. 28, from 5 to 8 p.m.

The event will include a costume parade, games, crafts, prizes and much more. All three gyms will be open during the party.

The cost is $10 for kids and free for adults and babies. Call 625-8008 or visit mycowabungas.com.

More than 50 giant Halloween-themed inflatables will be on display for one night only during the annual Halloween Inflatables Walk on Monday, Oct. 31, from 6 to 8 p.m. Bedford Positively will be hosting the event and making all donations and sponsorships to the Animal Rescue League of New Hampshire. Admission to attend the walk is free, and free parking will be available in the parking lot directly across from the start of the event (11 Meetinghouse Road, Bedford). Call 472-5788 or visit rescueleague.org for more details.

Create your own dragon

Join the Currier Museum of Art (150 Ash St., Manchester) for A Day to Play in Clay, a one-day workshop offered on Saturday, Oct. 29, from 1 to 3 p.m. The theme of the workshop will be dragons. Participants will be invited to bring in a picture of their favorite dragon and learn how to make it come to life in the form of clay. All projects will be painted with glaze during the class and then will be ready to pick up two weeks later after firing. The cost is $25 for each child and supervising adult, plus another $25 per additional participating adult. Call 669-6144 or visit currier.org/calendar for more details or to sign up.

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The 21-plus event will be held at the Millyard Museum on Friday, Oct. 28, from 7 to 11 p.m. and will feature live music and dancing, a cash bar, a costume contest, a silent auction, raffle prizes and more. The event was also chosen by the Manchester Young Professionals Network to celebrate its 12th birthday.

“They asked us if they could piggyback on it, and we’re honored that they’ve chosen us for that specific occasion,” said John Clayton, executive director of the Manchester Historic Association, which coordinates the event. “There’s always a challenge [as a museum] to engage a younger community and population, so we think this will be a great opportunity for the group to see what we do here.”

Costumes are encouraged, Clayton said.

Volunteers and members of the museum will be dressed up as prominent historical figures from Manchester or the surrounding community, and they’ll play the part, too.

“There will be someone dressed as Mother Frances Warde from the Sisters of Mercy,” Clayton said.

“We’ll also have Officer William Moher, who was the first police officer to be killed in the line of duty in Manchester. …

Industrialist and philanthropist Frank P. Carpenter will be there, and we’ll also have Grace Metalious, author of Peyton Place, as well as other figures from Manchester’s past.”

For a $25 admission ticket, visitors will have access to various galleries that will feature food, drinks, live music and a silent auction.

“The silent auction items will consist of a wide array of materials from Amoskeag Beverages,” Clayton said, adding that a Beer of the Month subscription, in which the winner receives a free case of beer every month for a year, will be returning as a raffle item. “We’ll also have historic prints from the museum’s gift shop, as well

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I recently fielded a query about moving a shrub: was this a good time to do so, or would spring be better? I responded that either was all right, but spring might be better. There is no clear answer among experts, some favoring spring, some fall.

I know from my readings that scientists have determined trees and shrubs use photosynthesis to create and store excess carbohydrates in their roots during the summer and then use them to extend their roots in the fall. They do this even after leaf drop, only stopping when the ground freezes. This would lend credence to those who say, “Plant trees in the fall.”

On the other hand, it is already late October, so plants moved now have less time to get established than those moved or planted in the spring. I wouldn’t want my shrub to get pushed up by freezing and thawing of the soil. The downside to planting in the spring is this: most of us are not likely to remember to water a new planting every week, and dry times can damage plants that have not settled in.

Despite all that, I recently moved a shrub that had gotten too big and was crowding a rhododendron next to it. The shrub, a pink spirea, had been in the ground about a decade and was now about 5 feet tall and wide.

My favorite tool for digging up large plants is a drain spade. This is a shovel with a long, narrow blade — business end is 16 inches long and just 5 or 6 inches wide. It allows me to get under the shrub, severing roots and giving me leverage to pry it out of the ground.

Most shrubs have roots that are in the top 6 to 12 inches of soil, and this spirea, a tough and tenacious plant, had roots down a full 12 inches, perhaps more. I pushed the blade of the spade in under the shrub at a 45-degree angle, doing this repeatedly as I moved around the plant. I was able to get my spade under the center of the shrub, and each time I tipped the spade back, lifting the root ball a little. Eventually I was able to tip the spirea over onto its side and roll it out of the hole.

I measured the root ball so that I could dig an appropriate-sized hole in the new location. The root ball was a foot from top to bottom and about 2 feet from side to side and weighed at least 50 pounds, I would estimate.

Whether planting a new tree or shrub or moving one, it is important to dig a hole just the depth of the root ball, not deeper.

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The new hole should be about three times the width of it. The reason for a wide hole is to allow roots to spread more easily and get well established more quickly. In my case I did not dig a 6-foot-wide hole as the soil was not compacted, but loose and fluffy.

If I had been planting the spirea on a lawn with compacted soil, I would have loosened the soil in a wider zone. Even so, my hole was 4 feet wide or twice the width of the root ball. I dug a hole with a flat spot a foot deep for the roots and with sloping sides.

It is also important to plant a tree or shrub with the same compass orientation that it had before you bought it. For purchased trees, look for the least leafy side — that is generally the north side. The trunk of the north side, if planted facing south, can be sunburned or scalded by the winter sun.

That is less a problem for multi-stemmed shrubs.

I don’t recommend giving fertilizers to trees and shrubs. I don’t want to force any fast growth, particularly now, nearing winter, and even a slow-release organic fertilizer will contain nitrogen (which pushes green growth). I do give my trees some rock powder; Azomite is a brand name of a bagged mineral powder I use. It contains many micronutrients that may not be in my soil, but no nitrogen. I added Azomite and some ground granite dust to the soil before I planted the spirea.

The final touches to this job were to water it well, helping it to settle in and getting rid of air pockets, which can damage roots. Lastly, I spread a 3-inch-deep layer of all-natural ground hemlock bark around the shrub. This will keep the soil warm longer, allowing my shrub to keep extending its roots. And I’ll try to remember to water it next summer if we have dry times.

Henry is the author of four gardening books. You may e-mail him at henry.homeyer@comcast.net or write him at P.O. Box 364, Cornish Flat, NH 03746. See Henry’s regular blog posts at dailyuv.com/gardeningguy.

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Dear Donna, I have a stone figurine that I am hoping you have some insight into. It’s 9” tall and 4” wide and is very heavy. It looks like an Eskimo sitting. I have had it for at least 15 years now and it wasn’t new when I bought it at a flea market. Any information would be helpful.

Tina from Merrimack Dear Tina, What you have is called an Inuit carving.

Inuit refers to men and women of the Arctic.

The figurine you have is most likely from after the 1940s. Before that time the carvings were done with whale bone, and after mostly soapstone, because the stone is plentiful and soft to work with. The story of the Inuit people and how these carvings came about is interesting and worth reading when you have the time.

Inuit carvings such as yours run in the $100 range to collectors. As always, the more detailing the higher the price. And even after the 1940s some carvings had bone added in, which would give them a higher value.

Your carving is all hand carved and polished. They still do them today as they did back then, even though now they could use machines that could make the work easier.

Inuits prefer to do the work by hand, making every one a little different than the others.

You found an interesting piece, Tina, and one you could add to and create a collection

of now that you know more about it. Just make sure they are on something that will support the weight. You are right, they are heavy, being made from stone.

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This car problem is driving the owner nuts Dear Car Talk: I own a 2014 Toyota Sequoia and took the car in to the dealer for its 35,000-mile oil change and maintenance — including a tire rotation. The serBy Ray Magliozzi vice manager called to tell me that everything was done and in good shape, but that he had to talk to me about something. Needless to say, I was curious and just a bit concerned. When I got there, he told me that my lug nuts were swollen. I had never heard of such a thing happening. He told me that the lug nuts are made out of two different metals and that this swelling often occurs. He recommended replacement, but said it might be OK if I went to an auto-parts store and bought the new lug nuts myself if I wasn’t comfortable paying the $14 apiece for the 20 factory originals ($280!). He indicated that there is not a safety issue, but said they have to use a socket one size larger than normal, and therefore, my lug nuts might become scratched. I wondered why I would buy factory originals only to have my lug nuts swell up again, and asked if I should contact Toyota to see if maybe it could replace them with non-swelling lug nuts that would have

been more properly engineered. So, Ray, do I have a valid beef with Toyota? Is there a safety issue, or is this indeed just a cosmetic thing? Where can I buy lug nuts that don’t swell? — Tim Whatever you do, Tim, don’t put BenGay on them.

These lug nuts are indeed made of two different metals. There’s the lug nut itself, which is steel, and then there’s a thin, chrome-plated metal covering, which is entirely cosmetic.

Because the lug nuts on this truck are exposed, Toyota wanted to make them look nice and shiny, rather than rusty and ugly — like most lug nuts. So they covered the nuts with a chromed sheet metal. We’ve seen a lot of cases of swollen nuts in the shop. Usually, it tends to be associated with older cars; it’s not something we typically see on a 3-yearold vehicle.

What happens is that moisture gets in there and begins to rust and swell the steel nut, which then pushes on the chrome nut-cover, making the whole thing enlarged.

And while it’s not a safety issue per se, in that your wheels are going to fall off, it is a safety issue in that the lug wrench that comes with your spare tire won’t fit over them anymore. It’s supposed to be a 21-millimeter nut.

But now yours are 22 millimeters. And if you

have a flat tire in a remote location, that lug wrench is going to be unable to grip the nuts.

Or, if there’s a lot of rust underneath, the chrome cover can actually break off, and you’ll be left with smaller nuts than you thought you had. Not to mention less-shiny nuts.

So I would complain to Toyota, Tim. At 35,000 miles, you shouldn’t have to spend nearly $300 to replace something that should last the life of the vehicle.

If Toyota turns you down, then, as a backup measure, I’d buy a breaker bar and a bunch of sockets. I’d get a 19-, a 20-, a 22and a 23-mm socket. And I’d throw all that stuff in with your spare tire. That likely will cover any swollen- or delaminated-nut scenario you encounter with a flat tire.

But I would hope that Toyota will take care of you. Unless you’re parking in a salt marsh, this sort of nut-swelling shouldn’t happen on a car of this age.

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Can you answer this in your column, so I can hang it up and show them when they ask? I could just sell them distilled water, but not in good conscience. — Joe Most batteries you see under the hoods of cars don’t need water, Joe. Every battery we sell these days is factory-sealed, so you never have to add anything to it. The only thing you ever have to add is money: When it dies, you buy a new one.

Now, it may be that old-style batteries are more common in the RVs you see. And distilled water will never hurt, but even older batteries will do fine with tap water.

I suppose if you live in a part of the country that has excessively hard water — so hard that it chips a tooth when you rinse your mouth — you could consider using distilled water in the battery. Hard water contains lots of dissolved minerals, which I suppose could shorten a battery’s life. But I’m not even sure that’s true.

But I think you’re missing the bigger picture here, Joe. There’s a big business opportunity here — but it’s not in distilled water for batteries. The big money is in selling these folks distilled water with which to wash their RVs! I’ll go in with you on that one, Joe. Visit Cartalk.com.

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JOBS/CAREERS Bringing job seekers and companies together Looking for work? Trying to hire people? Use Hippo’s Jobs/Careers section. ► TWO WAYS TO USE HIPPO’S JOBS/CAREERS PAGES: 1. SEND IN A JOB LISTING

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Looking for work? Need employees? Check out Hippo’s job postings.

This week’s Hippo has a wide range of opportunities for you to explore:

N.H. JOB FACTS: Local unemployment rates: • Concord.....................2.6% • Dover......................... 2.5% • Laconia..................... 2.7% • Manchester...............3.2% • Nashua......................3.5% • Portsmouth...............2.0% • Rochester..................2.6% • Statewide.................. 2.9% Source: N.H. Department of Employment Security statistics for August 2016.

• Crowne Plaza Nashua, one of the region’s top hotels, is looking for a Catering Sales Manager. (Page 34).

• AAA of Northern New England has openings for Tow Truck and Battery Service Drivers as well as Insurance Agents and Sales Trainees. (Page 34).

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• Bel-Air Nursing & Rehab Center in Goffstown is looking for nursing staff, including RN and LNA professionals. (Page 35).

• Herrington Catalog has openings for seasonal employees in their warehouse as well as customer service representatives in the Greater Manchester area. (Page 35).

• Firefly Bistro, one of downtown Manchester best

restaurants, is seeking just the right professional to join their kitchen staff as a fulltime cook. (Page 35).

• FedEx Ground is hiring part-time package handlers in southern N.H. (Page 36)

• Blue Buffalo pet foods is looking for regional representatives in New Hampshire. (Page 35)

• Manchester-based McDevitt Trucks, one of the state’s leading dealers, is hiring a parts outside sales rep. (Page 36)

• The Town Of Merrimack is seeing call firefighters and also a mechanic in the Public Works Department.

(Page 36)

• Sodexo, which provides dining services at Southern N. H. University, is hiring a wide range of food service professionals. (Page 37)

• The N.H. Electric Co-op is hiring for an important IT position at its Plymouth headquarters. (Page 37) • R.S Audley Construction of Bow is currently hiring bridge carpenters. (Page 37) • In Concord, local manufacturer Pitco is seeking to hire employees with a wide variety of trade skills. (Page 37)

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Now Hiring Call Center, Customer Service and Warehouse Workers!

If you feel you are lost in a large organization and that you are unsupported and not able to direct the care you want to provide, you may want to check us out!

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Currently we are accepting applications for a confident, self-starting Nurse who wants to be a part of an independently owned facility.

We are now interviewing for: Part-time Nurse (7am-3pm) Full-time Nurse (3pm-11pm) Per Diem LNA To learn more or for a confidential interview, call or send your resume to: Jessica Barto RN/DON (603) 497-4871 29 Center St., Goffstown, NH jessica@belairnursinghome.org

We are hiring SEASONAL employees for our Warehouse (pickers, packers and stock movers) as well as telephone and customer service representatives for our in-bound call center and customer service departments.

• Bonus checks payable prior to Christmas • Mother’s hours and Student hours available for call center (must be at least 17 years old to apply) • Full and part time availability • Employee store with spectacular savings of up to 90% off retail!

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Firefly is a casually upscale American bistro situated in the heart of Manchester’s historic downtown district.

We are seeking an experienced full time cook.

To apply: Apply in person Mon-Fri from 2-4pm, or send your resume to david@fireflynh.com 22 Concord Street Manchester, NH 603.935.9740 | fireflynh.com 110757

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CAREERS

then I ended up attending Cleveland Chiropractic College in Kansas City. … I am constantly learning and in training. I enjoy educating my patients, and the various workshops I teach are my way of giving back to the community.

Sam Sanzone

How did you find your current job?

I had been working for five years at Chiropractic Associates of Bedford. … I learned so much from the doctors there and they gave me the confidence to enhance my knowledge and to start a practice of my own. They were very supportive of me making that move.

Chiropractor

Dr. Sam Sanzone, D.C., of Penacook practices chiropractic medicine for Community Chiropractic in Concord and teaches free self-care and wellness classes What’s the best piece of work-related for the Concord Food Co-op. advice anyone’s ever given you?

Explain what your current job is.

I’m really fortunate to work in a profession that is based on the principle of natural health and healing. …

To be able to teach people how to practice skills to heal their body without intervention from drugs or surgery is rewarding to me every single day.

Sam Sanzone. Courtesy photo.

What was the first job you ever had?

I worked in the basement of a familyTo be confident in my own abilities and How did you get interested in this field? to be grateful for everything I have at the owned clothing store in my hometown of It started very early in life. My father suf- same time.

Rome, New York. … When the boxes of fered a heart attack when I was 12, and I clothes would come in, it was my job to put had a family friend who was a nurse who What do you wish you’d known at the price tags on them and send them up to the took my brother and me aside. … She beginning of your career? sales floor. would talk to us about preventative care — Matt Ingersoll I would’ve recognized my confidence and the lifestyle changes you can make … and gratitude sooner, but that was a lesson I WHAT’S SOMETHING YOU’RE and I was always interested in science as learned later in life.

REALLY INTO RIGHT NOW? well. My father did survive his heart attack.

What is your typical at-work uniform?

How long have you been in your career?

What kind of education or training did We don’t have uniforms; it’s mostly just I’ve been in practice for 23 years and you need for this job? professional attire like dress slacks and a I received an undergraduate degree from button-down shirt, and occasionally chinos have had my own practice for the last 18. the State University of New York, and on casual day.

Work for a Great Community

I’ve taken on a daily meditation practice, and I make sure I take time outdoors every day for a walk or a run. … I find that staying active is what feeds me in a positive way.

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Interested in a fast-paced job with career advancement opportunities? Join the FedEx Ground team as a package handler.

Mechanic II

The Town of Merrimack is currently accepting applications for the position of Mechanic II within the Public Works Department - Wastewater Division. Employees in this class perform highly skilled tasks in the preventive maintenance and repair of pumps, pneumatic controls, compressors, electric motors, and valves.

Education/Experience Requirements: High School Diploma or GED, three years of experience in the operation and maintenance of heavy-duty equipment (or any equivalent education and experience that demonstrates the possession of the required knowledge, skills, and abilities), and possession of a valid CDL-B with Air Brakes and Tank endorsements.

The successful candidate will undergo a complete background check including reference checks, criminal and driving record checks, and pre-employment drug testing prior to final offer of employment.

Sunday through Thursday, 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Sunday through Thursday is subject to change. The starting wage is $19.84-$21.73/hr., DOE, with comprehensive benefits package including participation in the New Hampshire Retirement System.

Package Interested Handlers in a fast-paced job with career

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Qualifications • Must be at least 18 years of age • Must be able to load, unload and sort packages, as well as perform other related duties Full-time and flexible schedules available in some locations.

To be considered: Compensation Submit a town application, and the Additional Public Works For more information, please visit • Multiple pay increases within the first six months Pre-Employment questions formof available at: GroundWarehouseJobs.fedex.com www.merrimacknh.gov/positionopenings or in the Human employment Office located in the Merrimack Town Hall, 6 Baboosic • Tuition reimbursement program Resources Lake Road, Merrimack, NH, 03054. Submit application materials to: Town of Merrimack, Attn: Sharon Marunicz- HR. Position • Career advancement opportunities open until filled. EOE • Weekly paycheck/direct deposit FedEx Ground is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer (Minorities/ Females/Disability/Veterans) committed to a diverse workforce.

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CALL FIREFIGHTER

The Town of Merrimack is currently accepting applications for the position of Call Firefighter.

This is an on-call position which requires response to fire and medical emergencies when needed to augment the career staff; as well as regular attendance at training and meetings.

Minimum qualifications include a high school diploma and valid driver’s license. Applicants that do not have Firefighter I Certification must pass a written exam. All candidates without a current CPAT Certification will need to pass a physical ability test and a physical. Applicants must be able to respond to calls in Merrimack within an acceptable timeframe determined by the Fire Chief.

Hourly wage is $11.70. Application Deadline: 4:00pm on November 4th, 2016.

To be considered: Submit a town application, resume and cover letter to Town of Merrimack, Attn: HR, 6 Baboosic Lake Road, Merrimack, NH 03054. Applications are available at: www.merrimacknh.gov/positionopenings and at the Human Resources Office at the above address. No emails please. EOE. 110601

Parts Outside Sales Rep McDevitt Trucks, Inc., a heavy duty truck dealership, is seeking an Outside Parts Sales Representative for our busy Manchester, NH location. Qualified candidate will be responsible for the Eastern NH territory.

Prior truck dealership experience preferred, but not necessary. Ability to meet with customers on a regular basis, making sales calls, understanding various customers’ needs and demands is essential. Previous outside sales experience is necessary.

Company vehicle is provided. Compensation plan is salary plus commission. We provide an excellent benefits package including ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Program.

We are an EOE. If interested, please forward resume to: hr@mctrucks.com

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Great Food Service Jobs at a Great University Baristas/Coffee Shop Staff (FT/PT) Looking for friendly, reliable people for fast paced coffee shop positions at SNHU. Great pay and benefits. Positions include nights and weekends.

Cashier (FT/PT) Sodexo Dining at SNHU is looking for friendly, reliable people for fast-paced cashier positions. Great pay & benefits. Positions include nights and weekends.

Dishwasher/Utility Staff (FT/PT) Sodexo Dining at SNHU is looking for hard working, reliable people for fast-paced operation. Good pay and benefits. Positions include nights and weekends.

Executive Catering Chef (FT) Sodexo/SNHU Dining Services is seeking an experienced Catering Chef.

Large & small function experience required. High paced location with opportunity to create. Flexible schedule includes nights & weekends. Great pay & benefits (hourly position).

Food Service Workers (FT/PT) Sodexo Dining at SNHU is looking for hard working, reliable people for fast-paced food service operation. Good pay & benefits. Position includes nights & weekends.

Grill Cooks (FT) Seeking experienced cooks for fast-paced location at SNHU. More experience, more compensation. Great pay & benefits. Positions include nights & weekends.

Help Us Build A BRIDGE TO THE FUTURE R.S. Audley Inc. is seeking experienced Bridge Carpenters.

Applicants must have proven skills in working with forms, concrete and rebar. For qualified candidates, we will conduct pre-employment screenings.

We offer a superior compensation package to include competitive pay, company contributed health/dental. We also offer additional benefits including a 401(k) retirement plan.

Please contact Deb Murphy at Sodexo 603.645.9710 for the web address to apply!

Apply online at www.audleyconstruction.com, in person at 1113 Route 3A, Bow, NH, or email a resume to dgorton@audleyconstruction.com; fax: (603) 224-8304. No phone calls please. EOE. 110775

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Join a Company that puts the

Power in your hands.

NHEC is the largest electric cooperative in New England. This position is located in Plymouth, NH.

Senior Technology Systems Engineer

Work Duties:

AA/BS degree in Computer Systems or Management fields, or possess five to eight years of proven equivalent industry experience.

Certification(s) in VMWare, MS Windows Server / Desktop, Linux & Storage highly desired. Proven working experience with installing, configuring & troubleshooting MS Windows & Linux based environments. Solid experience needed in the design, maintenance & administration of MS Active Directory environments. Experience with virtualization & monitoring, reporting, alerting solutions & networking knowledge desired.

Knowledge & experience with technology standards & audits preferred. Cloud experience a plus. Knowledge of PowerShell & Linux based scripts highly desired.

• Manage & monitor all systems, voice & data-based communications.

• Install, configure, test & maintain operating systems, & infrastructure software along with management tools.

• Monitor & test systems performance for potential issues, find solutions, & work with staff to implement solutions.

• InfoSec experience required.

• Design, implement, & manage a virtualization infrastructure & Storage Area Networks.

• Ensure electronic mail, internet filtering, file transfer, encryption systems are designed & maintained for resilience.

• Maintain & analyze metrics pertaining to capacity, & performance of IT Systems.

• Assistance with power restoration efforts is required of all employees.

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NHEC offers an excellent compensation & benefits package.

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FOOD Flavors for the holidays

Tasting has food, beer and wine from Derry and beyond

By Angie Sykeny

News from the local food scene

asykeny@hippopress.com

By Angie Sykeny

A new tasting event in Derry invites you to eat, drink and be merry as you explore the best local food, wine, beer and spirits for the holiday season. The Holiday Food and Drink Extravaganza, hosted by the Derry Rotary Club, takes place Thursday, Nov. 3, at the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Derry and will feature over 30 vendors.

“We wanted to do something different for a fundraiser that we hadn’t done before,” said Eddie Leon, co-chair of the rotary club and manager at La Carreta Mexican Restaurant, which is sponsoring and participating in the tasting. “People are already talking about Christmas, and come Novem-

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• Herbal infusions: Join clinical herbalist Maria Noel Groves for a Cordials and Chocolates workshop at Canterbury Shaker Village (288 Shaker Road, Canterbury) on Saturday, Oct. 29, from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Groves will demonstrate how to make herb-infused chocolate truffles and cordials and guide participants through the process of making their own to taste and take home. The cost is $60 ($50 for Canterbury Shaker Village members). All materials and supplies will be included. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit shakers.org.

• Fall cooking for kids: The Culinary Playground (16 Manning St., Derry, 3391664, culinary-playground.com) is starting a six-week fall cooking class series for kids and teens. Classes will teach age-appropriate kitchen skills like reading recipes, kitchen safety, food knowledge and preparation, cooking techniques and creativity.

Each week will feature a different menu using seasonal produce and recipes to make entrees, appetizers, snacks and desserts. Classes for kids ages 6 through 10 will be held Mondays, Nov. 7 through Dec. 12, from 4 to 5:30 p.m.; ages 8 through 12 will attend Tuesdays, Nov. 8 through Dec. 13, from 6:30 to 8 p.m.; teens age 12 and up will attend Wednesdays, Nov. 16 through Dec. 21, from 5:30 to 7:15 p.m., and homeschoolers age 5 through 12 will meet Wednesdays, Nov. 2 through Dec. 6, from 10 to 11:15 a.m.. Tuition ranges from $160 to $175, depending on the class.

• All about oysters: Oyster expert 41 Looking for more food and drink fun? Check out Hippo Scout, available via the Apple App Store, Google Play and hipposcout.com.

Holiday Food and Drink Extravaganza When: Thursday, Nov. 3, 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Where: Boys & Girls Club, 40 East Derry Road, Derry Cost: General admission tickets are $40.

VIP tickets are $75 and include access to a VIP area with a raw bar and premium food and drinks, plus a complimentary gift bag. 21+ event.

Visit: derryrotaryclub.com

ber, you’re getting into Thanksgiving, so we thought it’d be a good opportunity for people to have [a tasting event] right before the holidays.”

The vendors will include restaurants, breweries and wine producers from Derry and beyond, plus some national brands like Samuel Adams, Jack Daniel’s and Jameson Irish Whiskey. The restaurants run the gamut from diners and taverns to Greek, Mexican and Italian eateries. Samples may be signature or existing items on their menus, or new items created for the tasting.

Upon checking in, guests will receive a wine glass to use for sampling. They can meander freely throughout the expo-style event to talk with the vendors and try their products.

In addition to serving samples, many restaurants will be selling gift cards at discounted prices.

“We’re encouraging them to do that.

It’s something unique about the event,” Leon said. “If you’re attending, it’s a good opportunity to shop for the holidays and get a deal on some gift certificates.”

Guests also have the option to purchase VIP tickets, which will grant them a special gift bag and access to an exclusive VIP room with a raw bar and high-end wines, beers and spirits that aren’t featured in the general admission area.

Leon said the tasting is a chance for people to sample restaurants and products before committing to an entire meal or expensive bottle of wine.

“They can go and taste new things they haven’t had before and make up their mind from there,” he said, “and they can do it for a good price and a good cause.”

PARTICIPATING VENDORS Alcoholic beverages: 603 Brewery (Londonderry), Appolo Vineyards (Derry), Bellavance Beverage Co. (Nashua), Crush Distributors (Gilford), From the Barrel Brewing Co. (Londonderry), Great North Aleworks (Manchester), Horizon Beverage Co. (Concord), The Imported Grape (Bedford), Jack Daniel’s, Jameson Irish Whiskey, Kelsen Brewing Co. (Derry), Lazy Dog Beer Shoppe (Lon-

donderry), Magic Hat, Moonlight Meadery (Londonderry), Rockingham Brewing Co. (Derry), Samuel Adams, Tequila Herradura Restaurants and more: Amphora Fine Greek Dining (Derry), Bertuccis (Manchester, Nashua, Salem), Cask & Vine (Derry), Cracker Barrel (Londonderry), Drae (Derry), The Grind Rail Trail Cafe (Derry), The Halligan Tavern (Derry), J & F

Farms (Derry), La Carreta Mexican Restaurant (Derry, Nashua, Manchester), Margaritas (Concord, Dover, Exeter, Portsmouth, Salem, Nashua, Manchester), One More Cup Coffee (Seabrook), Pasquale’s Ristorante and Pizzeria (Londonderry), Poor Boy’s Diner (Londonderry), Rig A’ Tony’s Italian Take-out (Derry), Sabatino’s North (Derry), T-Bones Great American Eatery (Bedford, Derry, Salem, Laconia, Hudson)

Pool Tables Regulation slate tables by Brunswick, Olhausen and Legacy.

www.SeasonalStores.com Open all year. Click on Sales/Specials for weekly specials,or Hours for this month’s store hours. Swimming Pools, Patio Furniture, Hot Tubs, Pool Tables, Bars & Stools, Grills, Awnings.

Market Opens Saturday, Nov. 5th • 10am-1:30pm For dates and vendors for 2016-17, visit our website

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Uncorked event features new chef demo, spirits vendors

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CELEBRATING 15 YEARS Serving Southern NH’s best authentic Italian Cuisine

Courtesy photo.

By Angie Sykeny

asykeny@hippopress.com

Experience the best of the Lakes Region’s food and drink at Lakes Region Uncorked, featuring samples of fine foods, wine, mead, cider, beer and, for the first time, spirits.

Guests will also enjoy a new cooking and tasting session with a celebrity chef, a wall of wine raffle and a silent auction.

The fourth annual event takes place Thursday, Nov. 3, at Church Landing at Mill Falls in Meredith.

“It’s an opportunity for people to come together and enjoy what’s made in New Hampshire and what’s best about living in the Lakes Region,” said Joanne Piper Lang, director of development at Lakes Region Community Services, which hosts Uncorked.

“It’s a great event for both the vendors and the guests.”

In the tasting room, spirits vendors Tamworth Distilling, Tall Ship Distillery of Dover, Flag Hill Distillery of Lee, Haunting Whisper Spirits of Danbury and Black Cove Beverages of Meredith will join the lineup of wineries, breweries and other beverage producers. Food vendors will have gourmet items like chocolate, toffee, cake and cheesecake, artisan cheese and locally roasted coffee. There will also be an assortment of appetizers and hors d’oeuvres prepared by the Common Man Restaurant to complement the tasting.

Guests are encouraged to take their time and talk with the vendors about their products and how they’re made.

“The vendors are really passionate about what they do,” Lang said. “They love [Uncorked] because it’s more than just a tasting. … People usually spend a couple hours talking with them, so it’s an opportunity to showcase their products to people who are interested in what they’re doing.”

In addition to the spirits vendors, this year’s event will introduce another new feature: a small plates and pairings cooking and

tasting session with Chef Kevin Halligan, owner and executive chef of Laconia Local Eatery. Halligan will demonstrate his creative cooking style, share recipes and offer food tips for the holiday season and beyond.

Guests will be served small plates prepared by the chef, paired with some of the 40 Lakes Region Uncorked When: Thursday, Nov. 3, 5 to 8 p.m.

Where: Church Landing at Mill Falls, 281 Daniel Webster Hwy., Meredith Cost: General admission is $55 in advance and $65 at the door. Admission with access to one of the celebrity chef sessions is $75 (must purchase in advance). Event is 21+. All ticket holders will receive an Uncorked LOGO wineglass.

Visit: uncorked16.eventbrite.com

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Tasting room vendors Alcoholic beverages: Black Cove Beverages (Meredith), Canterbury Aleworks (Canterbury), Coffin Cellars Winery (Webster), Farnum Hill Ciders (Lebanon), Flag Hill Winery & Distillery (Lee), Gilmanton Winery and Vineyard (Gilmanton), Haunting Whisper Vineyard & Spirits (Danbury), Hermit Woods Winery (Meredith), LaBelle Winery (Amherst), Moat Mountain Brewing Co. (North Conway), Newfound Lake Vineyards (Bristol), Sap House Meadery (Center Ossipee), Squam Brewing (Holderness), Tamworth Distillery (Tamworth), Tall Ship Distillery (Dover), Seven Birches Winery (Lincoln), Whippletree Winery (Tamworth), Woodstock Inn Brewery (North Woodstock) Gourmet food/drinks: Hampshire Toffee (Moultonborough), Huckins Farm (New Hampton), Ooo La La Creative Cakes (Meredith), Sweet to Eat Cheesecakes (Laconia), Winnipesaukee Chocolates (Wolfeboro), Woodshed Roasting Company (Laconia)

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39 wines and spirits featured in the tasting room. Sessions will be held at 5:30 and 6:30 p.m. and will run for around 45 minutes. Separate tickets are required to participate.

For a $20 donation, guests can try their luck at the wall of wine raffle, where they’ll draw a numbered cork and receive the bottle of wine with the corresponding number.

“That’s one of the most popular things [at the event],” Lang said. “The wines can be worth a lot of money depending on which you pick. It’s a great thing for right before the holidays.”

A silent auction will have food- and drink-related prizes like a gift certificate for Tamworth Distilling, a “tower of toffee” from Hampshire Toffee, private tasting tours and restaurant gift certificates, as well as general prizes like golf and ski packages, a Boston Red Sox baseball signed by catcher Ryan Hanigan, flight passes and more.

Proceeds from Uncorked will help Lakes Region Community Services provide support for people living with disabilities in the Lakes Region.

Whether you’re looking for a unique gift or you want to treat yourself to something special, WineNot Boutique’s third annual Grand Wine Tasting will have all kinds of highquality, exclusive and collectible wines from around the world to explore.

“We wanted to give people the opportunity to try something from each region, to travel the whole world of wine,” said Svetlana Yanushkevich, sommelier, wine educator and owner of WineNot Boutique and The Wine Steward. “With some of the wines, it will be the first time they’ve ever been available in New Hampshire.”

The tasting takes place at the Crowne Plaza Nashua on Thursday, Nov. 3, and will feature over 70 wines, including varieties from prestigious wineries such as Catena Zapata, JJ Prum, Mollydooker, Peju, Jadot and Alto Moncayo, and some from small boutique producers in Italy, France, Californica, Austria, Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina, Slovakia, Spain and South Africa.

All bottles at the tasting will be valued at $20 or higher; the selection of wines in the under-$20 price range tends to decrease significantly in quality, Yanushkevich said.

High-quality wines are also more likely to be collectible, meaning they can be aged for many years in a wine cellar.

“We truly believe there’s a huge difference between a $10 wine and a $20 wine,” she said. “Most wines under $20 are what you call everyday wine — simple, lots of fruity flavors, and they all taste similar — but a higher-quality wine will taste like its terroir. … It brings you to the place where it came from.”

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“People aren’t comfortable spending money on something they don’t know,” she said.

“With wines coming from different countries, there’s a high cost for shipping, and a lot of [distributors] don’t want to take the risk and bring these wines that will sit forever on the shelf, full of dust.”

To get the most out of the tasting, attendees should start with wines from colder climates, which tend to be lighter, and work up to the heavier wines from warmer climates, finishing with the dessert wines.

There will be artisan hors d’oeuvres from local producers to complement the wines, including cheese and fruit, Thai vegetable spring rolls, roasted red pepper hummus with carrots, celery and grilled flatbread; phyllo-wrapped brie with raspberry chambord compote; coconut rum shrimp with lime coconut drizzle and other appetizers prepared by the Crowne Plaza Executive Chef Todd Lytle.

Finally, wine lovers can try their luck at winning wine-related prizes at this year’s charity raffle: a private wine tasting party hosted by Yanushkevich for up to 40 people (valued at $500), a bottle of limited Two Hands Shiraz Ares 2006, Australia (valued at $250), and a wooden crate with 12 bottles of fine wines (valued at $250). Proceeds will support Great American Downtown’s holiday lighting project for downtown Nashua.

For Yanushkevich and WineNot Boutique, the Grand Wine Tasting is the culmination of their year working with wine.

“For many people, this is the season of harvest, and it is for us too,” she said. “We work so hard for the whole year, tasting hundreds of wines and choosing the wines for this special event, and this is our time to show people all the beautiful and exciting wines we were able to find.”

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Obviously, it’s eating local, and that’s a good thing. We have a surprising number of What is your favorite item on your menu? places doing farm-to-table and using local I love our drinking chocolate. In the shop, I food. In other cities, it’s a big deal, but it’s sip that all day. We make it in the old Mayan not here because we have so many. But that’s style, with water rather than milk … so it’s all good because it means we have better access about the chocolate. It’s silky and light and to quality food. frothy. It fills your mouth and sinuses with chocolate, and it’s really satisfying.

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Clean eating: what is it?

Avoiding processed foods. For the most part, this means avoiding the middle of the grocery store, shopping the perimeter and eating things without packaging.

Additives and preservatives? Don’t let the door hit you on the way out. Real food? Hello!

Eating the right sugars and not eating too much of them. Local honey? Yes, please. Syrup from down the road? You betcha! Organic sugar in the raw? Gimme gimme! White, refined sugar is in almost everything on the shelves and we do not need it! From yogurt to bread, the white stuff is everywhere. Go back to natural sweeteners and change your taste buds.

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Other Ingredients 2 chicken breasts, cut into bite-sized chunks Olive oil 2 heads broccoli, cut up Choice of pasta or zucchini noodles

zer and will have a soda once in a blue moon. The same goes for other things: candy bars, fruit snacks and everything with dyes. Once in a while? Sure. Every day? Absolutely not.

What you might notice about eating clean is that it is more effort-filled. Gone are the days of microwave meals and dinners in a bag. While it takes more energy in some ways, I feel so much better! So the energy I spend preparing my real food for myself and my family translates to energy in my everyday life thanks to the real food I’m preparing. Give it a try even for a week and see how you feel.

I often work to make my own versions of things, and this week it was Alfredo sauce. Foods that come in packages and jars often have tons of extra ingredients that I’m happy to skip so I scour the internet and put my thinking cap on to make my own (often better-tasting) variation.

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In the top pan of the double boiler, heat a small amount of oil (no more than 1 teaspoon. Add minced garlic and stir, allowing garlic to become fragrant, Add remaining sauce ingredients and heat over medium-high heat, stirring occasionally. Once sauce is warm, blend using a handheld blender inside the pot or transferring contents to blender to blend and then back into the pot to keep warm.

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Did you know that you can crush grapes with your feet right here in New Hampshire? Well, you can. Almost. If you were at the Autumn Crush in the Mountains event recently, you had a chance to see what it was like, if only for a photo opportunity and chance to get your own grapey footprints on a keepsake shirt.

Seven Birches Winery, which moved to RiverWalk Resort at Loon Mountain earlier this year, hosted this day-long event as a way to celebrate fall and the end of the wine harvest season, and to give guests a chance to meet their winemaker and tour the facility. I had not been to the new location yet, so my friend Carol and I headed north to Lincoln on a day when the fall foliage served as the perfect backdrop.

First, we checked in and waited our turn to “crush” grapes. These grapes were mostly for looks and photo opportunities, but simulated how wine used to be madefrom the good, old-fashioned stomping of two feet. After stepping into the bucket and doing some squishing, we were able to leave our footprints on an event T-shirt.

Next, we took a tour with Mark LaClair, one of the owners and the winemaker at Seven Birches. He took us into the winery’s operations room, where all of the winemaking takes place. He noted that only a few weeks prior, the room looked a lot different, as they were in the middle of harvest.

He said they crushed four tons of grapes from California in a week, which arrived in many, many cases. Timing varies every year, as it all depends on the harvest date. Once the grapes are ready, they make the trek east, where they eventually become wine.

In addition to the wine made from the grapes, they also make wines from locally sourced fruit. Their Windy Ridge Apple wine and Windy Ridge Blueberry wine are made from Windy Ridge Orchard apples and high-bush blueberries, respectively.

Mark walked us through the basics of the winemaking process, showing us the crusher/destemmer, stainless steel tanks, bladder press, bottler, corker and capsule equipment. He noted that two winemakers can get the same grapes, but depending on how the wine is made and what yeast is used, the wines will turn out very different. He also hinted at the patience that is required to make wine.

“Wine is the laziest of all the beverages,” he said, which made the tour group laugh.

But in discussing the winemaking process, he said it is a lot of “hurry up and wait.”

Stefanie, right, stomps grapes with a friend. Courtesy photo.

Harvest time is very busy, followed by months of monitoring. Mark also showed us a couple of the oak barrels they use to age the wine, which are a combination of barrels from the United States and France.

Some are brand new, while others are used, so it is his job to determine the best course of action.

I was curious how the winery got its name. Mark said it is based on a stand of seven birch trees at the entrance of Windy Ridge Orchard in North Haverhill, where they first opened the winery. They currently produce wine under two different labels: RiverWalk and Windy Ridge. They began producing and selling wine in the North Haverhill location in 2010, and still maintain a wine shop there. The RiverWalk at Loon opened in June of this year, so the winery is part of this brand new resort set in the picturesque White Mountains.

Finally, as part of the event, we tried four wines in the wine tasting room: 2015 Pinot Gris, 2015 Apple Wine, 2013 Merlot and 2015 Pinot Noir. I liked all of the wines I tried and ended up picking up a couple bottles to take home. These were the only samples available during the event so I will have to go back and try more, as they have several more wines on their list. To check out more information about the winery, visit sevenbirches.com.

This was the first year that Seven Birches held this event, and I would like to see it continue. I like the idea of celebrating the wine harvest season right here in New Hampshire!

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There are exceptions, of course, and we went over one of those the other week, but in the case of Kaoru Ishibashi it goes double, as we see here. It’s also one of those rare revelations in which a hired gun (he’s played violin with Of Montreal, Regina Spektor and others) turns out to be someone with a lot of good ideas, an odd duck with a unique, accessible vision. Produced

by Grizzly Bear’s Chris Taylor, this third release focuses on his electronic side, and not just the violin-loop freak-outs of which fans are already well aware. Leadoff song “M’lover” starts out as a tribal, pretty, Luke Temple-ish trifle, hipster rock blended with quirk-EDM weirdness, but eventually emerges as a rock musical overture. It’s hard not to like the munchkin-voice samples or, well, all of it. “Say Yeah” tables bloopy Nintendo glitch and unabashed synth cheese in a double-dog-dare that Ishibashi’s falsetto turns into 1970s pop gold. It’s not often you’ll see the phrase “wildly creative and deeply melodic” and have it be true, but here you are. A+ — Eric W. Saeger

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For the record, yeah, I do get all the Metal Blade Records promos. The reason you don’t see many (if any) of them written up in this space is twofold. One, there are other metal labels I actually like, and two, I’ve always viewed Metal Blade as the Walmart of shopworn thrash ideas, tons of releases every year from bands comprised of bodies warm enough to sign the contract. At this writing, the new Charred Walls of the Damned just came out, and I agree with you that I should probably have covered that instead of this to work on my arbitrary made-up metal quota for the quarter, but I’m too lazy to hunt it down in my emailbox, so we’re going with convenience in this case whilst simultaneously checking in with the MB stable to see if this won’t put me to sleep. Monte Pittman is a one-man operation: singer, songwriter and guitar-god, or so I was told, and besides, he’s Madonna’s guitarist, so I expected a passable Iron Maiden imitation or at least a death-metal cover of “Who’s That Girl.” Neither materialized, though, just 1980s power-metal slop a la Savatage or Helloween, a few neat doggie tricks from Pittman’s axe to break up the monotony. Hmph, where was that Charred Walls link again? I know it’s here somewhere. C+ — Eric W. Saeger

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• No one on Earth would have ever heard of Australian electro duo Empire of the Sun if it hadn’t been for their nu-rave-ish single “Walking on a Dream,” the song you like from that Honda Civic commercial. I always quiz my wife to see if she remembers the band’s name when that commercial comes on, but she only knows Pat Benatar and Shakira, so I always end up the champion of that commercial segment. Past that, this band enjoys dressing up in costumes that look like something out of The Cell, so at least they aren’t boring to look at. That’s the opposite of musically important, but let’s give the new single “High and Low” the benefit of the doubt and listen to it. Well this isn’t bad at all, the hook sounds like aughts-era Above & Beyond, if you dig trance at all. Sure, the melody is basically “Son of Walking on a Dream,” but you need to stop expecting real innovation from pop artists if you ever expect to be happy in life.

• Kenny Chesney, has a new album out this week … wait a second, didn’t I just have to deal with this guy a few months ago? Yes, it says right here, in June I wrote something about his new album Some Town Somewhere. But this Wiki thing here says it got held up, and has now been renamed Cosmic Hallelujah. Why did he … wait, I know why, it’s because his ex-wife Renee Zellweger was in the news, because she bought a new face and went around saying it was her old face, honest, she totally didn’t have the most obvious plastic surgery in history, and he didn’t want to rain on her parade of shameless, embarrassing lies. So whatever, it’s the same stupid wrestling-NASCAR-country album, out again someday, who cares.

• When I first started writing about CDs, one of the “must-know” alt-metal bands was New York foursome Helmet — like, if you weren’t into them you weren’t legally authorized to write about metal CDs, because inevitably you’d have to reference them by saying something like “this band sounds like Helmet” (except you’d have to say it in a mildly snarky, clever manner, with a few worm-worn phrases like “to say the least” and “as most fans know” thrown in to pad the word count). Now that I’m an award-winning veteran critic who should have written a book five years ago and would have except I’m not normal, I can confess (to paraphrase Steven Seagal in Out for Justice) the following: “I don’t like you, Helmet, and, um, uh, I never really did.” Dead to the World is their new record, but of course there’s no stream at this writing, so I’m going to assume it’s more loud nonsense that sounds like a cross between Weezer and Papa Roach. Thank heaven there’s no stream.

• Crowbar, the most awesome thing to come out of Louisiana since the jumbo shrimp, have a new record coming out, titled The Serpent Only Lies. It’s automatically awesome because it’s a Crowbar album. Why? Because no one does doom-metal like this band.

Leadoff single “Falling While Rising” is typical Crowbar, a cross between Ministry, Sabbath and being chased across a grassy plain by the Tyrannosaurus rex you just gave a hot-foot to. Mastery and brilliance. — Eric W. Saeger

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Need inspiration? TEDxAmoskeagMillyard hits Derry Saturday, Nov. 12 — and this year, you might actually be able to get a ticket.

The event, now in its sixth year, moved from Southern New Hampshire University’s 200-seat auditorium to the Stockbridge’s 881seat space in order to allow for more audience members; in 2015, it was sold out with a waiting list.

It’s independently-organized but licensed

by TED and will feature a group of locally nominated or nationally known speakers — Kriss Blevens, Amy Cueva, Maribel Duran, Jay Gupta, Barbara Bradley Hagerty, Brett Houle, Adam Fitzgerald, Greg Moore, Suzanne Ketteridge, Jennifer Lague, Amirah Sackett, Carole Soule, Rob Spencer and Greg Tang — plus performers and TED Talks videos. All presentations will fall under the 2016 theme, “Recharge. Reimagine. Reboot.”

About half to two thirds of the speakers are usually from southern New Hampshire, the rest from out of state, according to Eric Ratinoff, event lead organizer.

The presenters are chosen via nomination submissions — Ratinoff estimated there are normally between 50 and 75 each year — who range from national figures to local heroes. Organizers look for a diversity of speakers, people of all ages, races, professions, cultural backgrounds and experiences who have important stories to tell. Those chosen then work with coaches to help develop their presentations.

“I noticed after doing this for a couple years that a professor’s first draft sounds a lot like a lecture. A business professional’s sounds a lot like a PowerPoint presentation. Writers tend to write things that sound a bit like short stories. And none of those things is quite right for TEDTalks,” said David Hudson, who’s been a part of the TEDxAmoskeagMillyard speaker team since 2013. “It has the emotional impact of a sermon, the narrative arc, often,

of a short story or an essay. It should have the logical flow of an academic piece or presentation. … In my mind, there’s a pretty high bar for a TEDTalk.”

It’s a huge undertaking to put on the volunteer-run event, but Ratinoff said the crew gets re-energized when they see the results.

“We realized it can be an incredibly impactful day. … We can challenge people’s assumptions and get them excited about ideas and give them new ways of seeing things,” Ratinoff said. “Every year this is done … there’s this sense that we made some magic happen. That’s reinforced when people come up to members of the team at the end of the day and say thank you. Some people have said this is a life-altering experience. When you get that kind of feedback, it makes it easier to roll up your sleeves again and get after it the next year.”

For Hudson, memorable presenters include Sy Montgomery, who talked about the intelligence of animals, and Jessica Higgins, whose topic was on PTSD. Other notable speakers from previous years include filmmaker and White House appointee for the Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities Dan Habib; inventor, scientist and clean water advocate Deepika Kurup; and tap dance artist and Riverdance performer Aaron Tolson. The TEDxAmoskeagMillyard 2014 talk by Tania Simoncelli, “Should you be able to patent a human gene?,” was selected by the TED Editorial team to be posted on TED.com.

Seeing it live is much different from watching it on YouTube.

“The energy in the room is phenomenal.

You’ve got a room full of people who share your passion for TEDTalks,” Hudson said.

TEDxAmoskeagMillyard Where: Stockbridge Theatre, 5 Pinkerton St., Derry When: Saturday, Nov. 12, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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The blurb on Behind Closed Doors’ jacket calls it “a chilling thriller that will keep you reading long into the night.” I live for page-turners, so whenever I see a comment like that I take it as a personal challenge to see whether this book will in fact keep me up all night.

I started reading late in the afternoon.

I kept reading and missed a hair appointment. I stayed up well past a reasonable bedtime so I could continue reading. And this morning I sat down with a cup of coffee to finish the book. Who could do any work without knowing how it all ended?

Yes, this book will have you reading long into the night.

Set in England, the story is about Jack and Grace, who are the perfect couple.

Jack is a high-powered lawyer for battered women, and he’s never lost a case, while Grace is the perfect wife, Martha Stewartlike and absolutely devoted to her husband.

In fact she’s given up her travel job at Harrods in order to run her tidy household and take care of Jack.

Jack, who fell in love with Grace and married her within six months because she was the woman of his dreams, is so perfect that he’s even willing to allow Grace’s sister Millie, who has Down syndrome, to come live with them when she turns 18 and ages out of her boarding school. He has designed and set aside a special bedroom for her.

The house is immaculate, Grace has a to-die-for figure, and when they give dinner parties, Grace makes the most amazing food that is always served on time and perfectly displayed.

It’s a perfect little family living an enviably perfect life.

Or so it seems.

It turns out that Jack and Grace are in a complicated cat-and-mouse game where Jack is the controlling predator and Grace the toy he plays with. Grace learns soon after they get married that Jack is a psychopath who lives to see fear in others.

Through psychological and physical torture (bars and steel shutters on windows) he manages to keep Grace captive to do his bidding.

Chapters toggle between Past and Present. As you read, you begin to see how past events are woven into present behavior.

And it is breathtaking.

Paris gives depth to each of the characters. She makes us fully understand how Grace could be controlled and why she would not try to leave. Little by little we get to see how sick Jack really is — each Past chapter sinks his character lower and lower into the depths of pure psychotic hell, which leaves you squirming in your seat —

what an evil man.

In the few moments I was not reading the book, I was left wondering how the other characters (Jack’s “friends” and associates) viewed Jack and was amazed at how they weren’t able to see what I as a reader had been made privy to. Jack is a bad man — run.

When I wasn’t reading it, Behind Closed Doors bled into my real-life thoughts.

That’s a sign of a good book.

It’s important to note that the disabled character in this book, Millie, has intelligence and a cunning sense of what to do and how to help her sister. She is not merely a prop for the plot. I appreciated that refreshing treatment of those with disabilities.

The abuse that’s described in the book leaves most of the details to the imagination, which actually makes it all the more frightening. Minds can come up with some disturbing details when put to the task. There will be parts in this book where your breath will quicken and your skin will crawl.

Because of the topic (abusive and controlling husbands), this book has to come with a trigger warning: there is captivity and plenty of psychological manipulation.

For women who have been in abusive relationships, it could be a difficult and uncomfortable read. Those readers might want to stay away.

This is a debut book, and there are some editing problems, redundancy and tightness issues, but the plot — oh my, that plot. It zings along and leaves you with cliffhangers at the end of every chapter. The author controls you with her writing as much as Jack controls Grace with his torture.

I absolutely look forward to more books by this author. There is no doubt that this book will be turned into a movie. Do yourself a favor and read it now. A — Wendy E. N. Thomas

POP CULTURE BOOKS

• Book sale begins: The Dover Friends of the Library Annual Book Sale is open to the public on Saturday, Oct. 29, during regular hours, 9 a.m. to 8:30 p.m., at the library, 73 Locust St., Dover. For sale are thousands of paperbacks, hardcover books and media items for all ages at prices from 50 cents to $2.

All proceeds benefit the Friends of the Library. Visit library.dover.nh.gov or call 516-6050.

• National novel-writing month: November is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), a project bringing together professional and amateur writers from all over the world with the goal of writing one novel — or about 50,000 words — over the course of the month. The project website, nanowrimo.org, offers support for writers and tools that help them track progress and meet fellow writers, online and in person. You can find write-ins and events in New Hampshire at nanowrimo.org/regions/usa-new-hampshire.

• Book fest for the kids: Strawbery Banke, 14 Hancock St., Portsmouth, hosts a Children’s Authors Festival Saturday, Nov. 5, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., which will feature 18 local children’s book authors and illustrators. For more information, visit strawberybanke.org or call 433-1100.

• Mayor’s book club: Nashua Mayor Jim Donchess and a panel of experts talk about Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier by Edward Glaeser on Thursday, Nov. 17, at 7 p.m., at the Nashua Public Library, 2 Court St., Nashua; registration is not required, and the discussion is open to the public (though the library has obtained extra copies for cardholders). Call 589-4610. — Kelly Sennott

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Jennifer Vaughn visits Gibson’s Bookstore to present her new thriller, Throw Away Girls! Hard-charging, insightful, and ambitious, Jaycee Wilder wants to take her TV news career to the next level. The Los Angeles reporter is hungry for the big story. When dead girls begin to pile up at seedy nightclubs that cater to whimsical, fetish-seeking strangers, Jaycee suspects a serial killer is at work. She aligns herself with an east coast cop trying to resurrect himself- and his once stellar career- from a drunken skid.

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New Hampshire favorite Howard Mansfield visits to present his new work, Sheds. A shed is the shortest line between need and shelter, writes Mansfield. Drawing on material from his recent book Dwelling in Possibility, Mansfield explores the different types of sheds found around New England and beyond: covered bridges, barns, worksheds, worship sheds (meeting houses), extended farmhouses, bob houses for ice fishing.

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• KATINA MAKRIS Author of Autoimmune Illness and Lyme Disease Recovery Guide. Sat., Oct. 29, at 2 p.m. Toadstool Bookshop, 614 Nashua St., Milford. Visit toadbooks.com. Call 673-1734.

• G.A. MORGAN Author talks about Five Stones Trilogy, including newly-released The Kinfolk.

Sat., Oct. 29, at 4 p.m. RiverRun Bookstore, 45 S. Main St., Portsmouth. Visit riverrunbookstore. com.

• LINDA KEPNER Author talks about Vampires and Magicians.

Sat., Oct. 29, at 11 a.m. Toadstool Bookshop, 12 Depot Square, Peterborough.

• REBECCA RULE, SCOTT SNYDER Release party for book, N is for New Hampshire. Sun., Oct. 30, at 2 p.m. MainStreet BookEnds, 16 E. Main St., Warner. Visit mainstreetbookends.com or call 456-2700.

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• BRACKEN MACLEOD Author talks about Stranded.

Thurs., Oct. 27, at 6:30 p.m. RiverRun Bookstore, 45 S. Main St., Portsmouth. Visit riverrunbookstore.com.

• TERRY FARISH Author talks about Luis Paints the World. Part of Community Stories: Soldiers Home & Away. Thurs., Oct. 27, at 4:30 p.m. Hampstead Public Library, 9 Mary E. Clark Drive, Hampstead. Second event Fri., Nov. 4, at 4 p.m. Kelley Library, 234 Main St., Salem. Third event Wed., Nov. 9, at 6:30 p.m. Gale Library, 16 S. Main St., Newton.

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Gibson's Bookstore, 45 S. Main St., Concord. Visit gibsonsbookstore.com/event/live-free-or-ride.

• NICHOLSON BAKER Author talks about Substitute: Going to School with a Thousand Kids. Part of The Music Hall's "Innovation and Leadership" series. Presentation, Q&A, book signing. Thurs., Nov. 3, at 7 p.m. The Music Hall Loft, 131 Congress St., Portsmouth. $44, includes book, bar beverage, signing/meet-and-greet.

Call 436-2400. Visit themusichall. org.

• JENNIFER KENISTON Author talks about Afta-U. Sat., Nov. 5, at 4 p.m. Gibson's Bookstore, 45 S. Main St., Concord.

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• JENNIFER-LYNN KENISTON Author talks about novel, Afta-U. Sat., Nov. 5, at 4 p.m.

Gibson's Bookstore, 45 S. Main St., Concord.

• AUTHORS OF DAWN: THE LITERARY JOURNAL OF RISE Members of Rivier Institute for Senior Education read from annually-published journal, DAWN: The Literary Journal of RISE. Sat., Nov. 5, 10 a.m.-noon.

Nashua Public Library, 2 Court St., Nashua.

• AUTHORS OF WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE WHITE IN AMERICA? Sat., Nov. 5, at 11 a.m. Toadstool Bookshop, 12 Depot Square, Peterborough.

• KATHERINE TOWLER Author talks about The Penny Poet of Portsmouth. Sun., Nov. 6, at 2 p.m. MainStreet BookEnds, 16 E. Main St., Warner. Visit mainstreetbookends.com or call 456-2700.

• VAL GRISWOLD-FORD Author talks about Winter’s Secrets. Gibson’s Bookstore, 45 S. Main St., Concord, gibsonsbookstore.com. Wed., Nov. 9, at 5:30 p.m.

• KATRINA KENISON Author talks about Moments of Seeing.

Water Street Bookstore, 125 Water St., Exeter, Tues., Nov. 10, at 7 p.m. Visit waterstreetbooks.com.

• JENNIFER VAUGHN Author discusses new book, Throw Away Girls. Sat., Nov. 12, at 2 p.m.

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POP CULTURE FILM REVIEWS BY AMY DIAZ

Keeping Up with the Joneses (PG-13)

A suburban couple learns their new neighbors are not what they seem in Keeping Up with the Joneses, a weak-sauce comedy.

Or actually, Tim (Jon Hamm) and Natalie Jones (Gal Gadot) are exactly what they seem to Karen Gaffney (Isla Fisher) the first time she sees them, namely, way too perfect for suburbia. With their international jobs and hobbies and their airbrushed good looks, she’s certain something’s up with them, a hunch underlined by what she sees as strange behavior from Tim. He knows the name of Karen’s husband, Jeff’s (Zach Galifianakis), workplace, some kind of defense industry tech thing, without having to be told and she catches him poking around Jeff’s den — allegedly having gotten lost on the way to the bathroom. Karen doesn’t think Natalie’s perfect aim at darts and catwalk- ready wardrobe particularly fit with the “cooking blog” resume she gives either.

And if Jeff weren’t so desperate for a new buddy, he might also wonder why Tim is so curious about the personal lives of Jeff’s co-workers.

Of course, if Jeff had any sense at all, he probably wouldn’t let any random person at his super-secure office (where most employees have no internet access) use his computer. As an HR guy, Jeff has a computer with internet access, a fact that gets him lots of visitors but little respect because, as one coworker explains, his internet proves his job isn’t sensitive or terribly important. Perhaps this is why Jeff wants to hang on to Tim’s friendship and keeps insisting that Karen’s belief in the couple’s shadiness is actually just her deflecting her anxiety and loneliness at the absence of their two young sons, who have gone to summer camp for a few weeks. He keeps insisting this right up until he’s proven wrong, and then he’s in a state of squealing terror.

Maybe you think that’s a spoiler, the fact that the Joneses are actually people with a secret. “Eh” is my feeling on that. Even if you’d never seen the trailers, which totally give this plot detail away, the movie also tells the audience that the Joneses aren’t on the up-and-up pretty quickly. I’m not saying it would have been better if we didn’t know — in fact, I think it might have been tiresome to watch Karen goofily Nancy-Drew the mystery — but the lack of a question in the plot leaves the comedy to do all the heavy lifting in this movie and the comedy here is definitely not strong enough to make that work. (There is one nice little surprise, casting-wise, late in the movie, that I won’t spoil and it leads to some of

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the movie’s better comedic moments.)

The clash of unsexy suburban coupledom versus glamorous spy life is pretty much the one joke this movie keeps telling over and over. It is a very sitcom approach in the old-school sense of the mediocre broadcast network kind of sitcom that existed back before “comedy” came to mean basically anything that wasn’t an NCIS offshoot. This kind of movie, this kind of skewering of suburbia plus adventure, can work, but it needs to be dumber, smarter or weirder (think Bad Moms or Neighbors) or some combination of the three. Also, it’s weird that this movie would be a PG-13-rated film — are teenagers lining up to see Jon Hamm?

I’m not usually one to say “what this movie needs is some hilarious violence” but an R rating (and the kind of comedy that could have come with it) would seem more fitting with the subject matter and the potential audience.

Here, most of the scenes are built around one of four duos: Tim and Natalie, who are the least interesting pair of people; Jeff and Karen, who are a step up on the zany chart; Tim and Jeff, where all of the comedy is really about the difference between the cool Tim and the dorky Jeff, and Karen and Natalie, whose scenes together probably have the most comic potential even though there aren’t many of them. Though the movie uses the two characters basically as an excuse to have two women in lingerie share a scene, the characters actually have a few brief but interesting conversations that show how the movie could have pushed the comedy to some weirder or smarter place.

Keeping Up with the Joneses isn’t a terrible idea for a comedy — or even all that terribly executed — but it needs more

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than just four characters with comedy chops (I’ll give Gadot the benefit of the doubt) to make it rise above some very middling jokiness and be the fun dumb comedy I think it could have been. C Rated PG-13 for sexual content, action/ violence and brief strong language.

Directed by Greg Mottola and written by Michael LeSieur, Keeping Up with the Joneses is an hour and 45 minutes long and distributed by 20th Century Fox.

Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (PG-13)

Tom Cruise continues to coast as Jack Reacher in Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, an exceptionally dumb action movie that is still moderately enjoyable.

Not “run out and buy a ticket now!” enjoyable, but, like, “no need to throw out your back getting the remote to flip away when you’re watching this on basic cable” enjoyable. (And yes, the ability to watch below-average entertainment junk food when I’d prefer not to have to pay attention to some multi-layered peak TV event is why I still have cable. So, laziness, essentially.)

Jack Reacher (Cruise), a former military, sorta homeless guy who rights wrongs as a hobby or something, is continuing to hitchhike and take down baddies, sometimes with the help of Major Turner (Cobie Smulders), a woman who holds the command position he used to have. After some pretty weak banter, he offers to take her to dinner the next time he’s in town. When he finally gets around to meeting up, he learns that she’s been arrested for espionage.

Though she’s left word for him not to get

involved, Reacher doesn’t give up on his casual phone acquaintances so he starts to look in to her case. Naturally, he quickly has to fight off a few assassins and break her out of jail. Together, they work to uncover the conspiracy that framed her and is now endangering their lives.

If you’re thinking “yeah, but is a government conspiracy that lead to the deaths of two soldiers really enough, stakes-wise?” this movie has you covered by shoving in a subplot about a possible Jack Reacher offspring. Unbeknownst to him, a woman sued him for paternity on behalf of Samantha (Danika Yarosh), a teenager who may or may not be Jack’s daughter. Sam is, as is required by law in a movie like this, a sassy back-talker who is skilled a thievery and lying but also has a plucky can-do team spirit when required. Aw, Jack Reacher (whom everybody addresses as “Reacher!”), that lady he barely knows and that random girl whom he might technically be kidnapping are just like a family!

As it happens, I only just recently saw the 2012 Jack Reacher, which was pretty stupid but still pretty entertaining. This is dumber than that but still entertaining on the same level. So if you liked the 2012 original but didn’t think of it as a great cinematic achievement, I don’t think you’ll be disappointed by this. It has the same amount of kicky punchy action, the same laughably terrible dialogue, the same amount of low-effort wiseguyness from Reacher, the same goofy conceit about him being a principled drifter or whatever he’s supposed to be and the same kinda but not quite chemistry thing between him and his female crime-solving partner.

Jack Reacher: Never Go Back is kind of an achievement in stupid-film making.

It’s not offensive or so bad it’s good or campy. It just feels like a movie where absolutely everyone involved decided to give it exactly 35 percent and not one bit more of their effort and the result is endearingly mediocre. And if “endearingly mediocre” winds up on a movie poster somewhere, I will be the first to purchase advance tickets for Jack Reacher 3: OK, Sure, Go Back. C+

Rated PG-13 for sequences of violence and action, some bloody images, language and thematic elements. Directed by Edward Zwick with a screenplay

by Richard Wenk and Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz (based on the novel by Lee Child), Jack Reacher: Never Go Back is an hour and 58 minutes long and distributed by Paramount Pictures.

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MOVIES OUTSIDE THE CINEPLEX RED RIVER THEATRES 11 S. Main St., Concord, 2244600, redrivertheatres.org • Cameraperson (NR, 2016) Thurs., Oct. 27, at 2:10 p.m.

• The Smallest Show on Earth (NR, 1957) Thurs., Oct. 27, at 7:30 p.m.

• Denial (PG-13, 2016) Thurs., Oct. 27, at 2, 5:25 & 7:50 p.m.; Fri., Oct. 28, at 1, 3:25, 5:50 & 8:15 p.m.; Sat., Oct. 29, at 1, 3:25, 5:50 & 8:15 p.m.; Sun., Oct. 30, at 1 3:25 & 5:50 p.m.; Mon., Oct. 31, at 2, 5:25 & 7:50 p.m.; Tues., Nov. 1, at 2, 5:25 & 7:50 p.m.; Wed., Nov. 2, at 2 & 7:30 p.m.; Thurs., Nov. 3, at 2 & 7:30 p.m.

• Harry & Snowman (NR, 2015) Thurs., Oct. 27, at 2:05, 5:30 & 7:30 p.m.; Fri., Oct. 28, at 2, 4, 6 & 8 p.m.; Sat., Oct. 29, at 2, 4, 6 & 8 p.m.; Sun., Oct. 30, at 2, 4 & 6 p.m.; Mon., Oct. 31, at 2:05, 5:30 & 7:30 p.m.; Tues., Nov. 1, at 2:05, 5:30 & 7:30 p.m.; Wed., Nov. 2, at 2:05 & 5:30 p.m.; Thurs., Nov. 3, at 2:05 & 5:30 p.m.

• Under the Shadow (PG-13, 2016) Fri., Oct. 28, at 1:45, 3:45, 5:45 & 7:45 p.m.; Sat., Oct. 29, at 1:45, 3:45, 5:45 & 7:45 p.m.; Sun., Oct. 30, at 3:45 & 5:45 p.m.; Mon., Oct. 31, at 2:10, 5:35 & 7:35 p.m.; Tues., Nov. 1, at 2:10 p.m.; Wed., Nov. 2, at 2:10 p.m.; Thurs., Nov. 3, at 2:10 p.m.

• Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (NR, 1948) Sun., Oct. 30, at 2 p.m.

• Valley of the Dolls (PG-13, 1968) Thurs., Nov. 3, at 6:30 p.m., 50th anniversary screening WILTON TOWN HALL 40 Main St., Wilton, 654-3456, wiltontownhalltheatre.com • Diary of a Chambermaid (2015) Thurs., Oct. 27, at 7:30 p.m.

• Sully (PG-13, 2016) Thurs., Oct. 27, through Thurs., Nov. 3, at 7:30 p.m. Additional screening Sun., Oct. 30, at 2 p.m.

• A Man Called Ove (PG-13, 2015, Swedish) Fri., Oct. 28, through Thurs., Nov. 3, at 7:30 p.m. Additional screenings Sun., Oct. 30, at 2 & 4:30 p.m.

• The Pit and the Pendulum (1961) Sat., Oct. 29, at 4:30 p.m.

• Phantom of the Opera (1925)

Sun., Oct. 30, at 4:30 p.m., silent film with live musical accompaniment by Jeff Rapsis MANCHESTER CITY LIBRARY 405 Pine St., Manchester, 6246550, manchester.lib.nh.us • The Third Alarm (1922) & The Coast Patrol (1925) Tues., Nov. 1, at 6 p.m., silent film with musical accompaniment by Jeff Rapsis • Doubt (PG-13, 2008) Wed., Nov. 2, at 1 p.m.

CINEMAGIC 1226 Hooksett Road, Hooksett, 644-4629, cinemagicmovies. com/loc_Hookset.asp • RiffTrax Live: Carnival of Souls Thurs., Oct. 27, at 8 p.m.

• Rocky Horror Picture Show Mon., Oct. 31, at 10 p.m.

• Time Stands Still Thurs., Nov. 3, at 7:30 p.m.

CINEMAGIC 11 Executive Park Drive, Merrimack, 423-0240, cinemagicmovies.com • RiffTrax Live: Carnival of Souls Thurs., Oct. 27, at 8 p.m.

• Time Stands Still Thurs., Nov. 3, at 7:30 p.m.

NASHUA PUBLIC LIBRARY NPL Theater, 2 Court St., Nashua, 589-4611, nashualibrary.org • The Nightmare Before Christmas (PG, 1993) Sat., Oct. 29, at 2 p.m.

• Me Before You (PG-13, 2016) Tues., Nov. 1, at 7 p.m.

• The Jungle Book (PG, 2016) Sat., Nov. 5, at 2 p.m.

AVIATION MUSEUM OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 27 Navigator Road, Londonderry, 669-4820, aviationmuseumofnh.org • Wings (1927) silent film with live musical accompaniment by Jeff Rapsis, Fri., Nov. 4, at 6:30 p.m.

RODGERS MEMORIAL LIBRARY 194 Derry Road, Route 102, Hudson, rodgerslibrary.org. 8866030 • Cinema Celebration second Thursday at 6:30 p.m.

PETERBOROUGH COMMUNITY THEATRE 6 School St., Peterborough, 9242255, pctmovies.com, movies@ pctmovies.com • The Accountant (R, 2016) Oct. 28 through Nov. 3, Wed., Sat. and Sun. at 2:30 & 7 p.m., Thurs. and Fri. at 7 p.m.

FOX RUN STADIUM 15 45 Gosling Road, Newington, NH 03801, 431-6116 • RiffTrax Live: Carnival of Souls Thurs., Oct. 27, at 8 p.m.

• Time Stands Still Thurs., Nov. 3, at 7:30 p.m.

THE MUSIC HALL 28 Chestnut St., Portsmouth, 436-2400, themusichall.org, Some films are screened at Music Hall Loft, 131 Congress St., Portsmouth • Florence Foster Jenkins (PG13, 2016) Thurs., Oct. 27, at 7 p.m.

• Don’t Think Twice (R, 2016) Sun., Oct. 30, at 3 p.m.; Tues., Nov. 1, at 7 p.m.; Wed., Nov. 2, at 7 p.m.; Thurs., Nov. 3, at 7 p.m.

• Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World (PG-13, 2016) Sun., Oct. 30, at 7 p.m.; Tues., Nov. 1, at 7 p.m.; Wed., Nov. 2, at 7 p.m.

ROCHESTER OPERA HOUSE 31 Wakefield St., Rochester, rochesteroperahouse.com, rochestermfa.org/film, 332-2211, 335-1992 • Beetlejuice (PG-13, 1988) Sat., Nov. 5, at 7 p.m.

THE FLYING MONKEY 39 S. Main St., Plymouth, 5362551, flyingmonkeynh.com • For the Love of Spock (documentary, 2016) Wed., Nov. 9, at 6:30 p.m.

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• Soulful stuff: Check out “Baby Love” from Mica-Sev Project, a collaboration between singer Yamica Peterson and guitarist Don Severance on Soundcloud. The veterans of the local scene started playing together when Peterson moved back to Portsmouth from Arizona. Family Affair, a duo with dad Pete Peterson, is also doing shows. Go Friday, Oct. 28, at 9 p.m. at Martingale Wharf, 99 Bow St., Portsmouth. Check out new music at soundcloud.com/micapetersoncain.

• Get schooled: Nashville band The Barefoot Movement conducts a master class prior to opening for La Vent du Nord later that evening. Awarded the Momentum Award from the International Bluegrass Music Association in 2014, the trio performs a heady mix of Appalachian bluegrass, folk and country, with tight instrumentation and lovely threepart harmonies. Go Friday, Oct. 28, at 3 p.m. at Koonz Theatre Stage, Dana Center, 100 Saint Anselm Drive, Manchester. RSVP to Darcie Champagne, 641-7710.

• Dad’s son: Estate bickering forced Dweezil Zappa to rename his tribute to father Frank from Zappa by Zappa to Dweezil Zappa Plays Whatever The F@%k He Wants.

One thing does remain the same: his discipline and faithfulness to the music is almost flawless as he carries on a mission to share Frank’s music with the world. Go Saturday, Oct. 29, at 7:30 p.m. at Flying Monkey Movie House, 39 Main St., Plymouth. Tickets $55 and up at flyingmonkeynh.com.

• Frightfully good: Musical guests Brad Bosse and Pat Foley complement top-shelf cocktails and a special prix fixe menu that continues through Halloween at a popular Bedford restaurant and bar. Along with food specials, the promotion offers a chance to spin the wheel for FeedNH.org, and $5 from every item ordered on the Wicked Scary Menu will be donated to the charity. Go Sunday, Oct. 30, at Copper Door Restaurant, 15 Leavy Drive, Bedford. Call 488-2677 for more.

• Bean scene: A coffee house with a separate listening room celebrates its second birthday with versatile band The Grebes, talented local singer-songwriter Timothy Jackson Scott, Andrew Case and Crowne Victoria, a new band including co-owner Derek Fimbel. That latter perhaps explains Union Coffee House’s music-centricity; the venue books some of the region’s best. Go Tuesday, Nov. 1, at 6 p.m. at Union Coffee House, 42 South St., Milford, unioncoffee.co.

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Though the sign on the building remains, the rest of Jewel Nightclub in Manchester is very different these days. The name will also change soon; for now, it’s Jewel Music Venue. New ownership at the Canal Street club brings an expanded musical palette.

“It’s a new concept, something for everyone, all genres,” booker Stu Ginsburg said recently.

The mix thus far has been thoroughly eclectic. Pink Floyd tribute band The Machine played shortly after Jewel changed hands; subsequent guests included roots stalwarts Session Americana, oneman indie band Beans on Toast, Seacoast funksters Nth Power and American Idol veterans Halo Circus.

Three to four shows a week seems to be the rule, and the upcoming Halloween weekend exemplifies the variety on offer.

On Friday, Oct. 28, Roots of Creation brings a jammy vibe to a four-band show that also features popular Manchester DJ John “Midas” Manning. The following night’s lineup recalls Jewel’s previous incarnation, with edgy rock from Failure Anthem and Through Fire. On Sunday it’s Eric Gales, a fiery blues-rock guitarist last seen in New Hampshire with the “Experience Hendrix” tour.

Jewel Music Venue Where: 61 Canal St., Manchester Full schedule at jewelnh.com Upcoming shows: Friday, Oct. 28: RoCtoberfest Halloween Bash with Roots of Creation Saturday, Oct. 29: Failure Anthem and Through Fire Sunday, Oct. 30: Eric Gales Thursday, Nov. 3: Genitorturers Friday, Nov. 4: Royal Southern Brotherhood Saturday, Nov. 5: Flight of Fire w/ One Time Mountain Wednesday, Nov. 9: Sponge

Nite Life Music, Comedy & Parties • TRISTAN OMAND at NEC Listening Room (62 North Main St., Concord 715-2306) on Friday, Oct. 28, 7:30 p.m. Six Strings, Three Chords: Americana singer-songwriter and a special guest, as the NH native performs selections from his new LP, The Leser-Known Tristan Omand.

Eric Gales. Courtesy photo.

Roots of Creation front man Brett Wilson is excited by the changes at Jewel; it’s his band’s first show there.

“We’ve played Shaskeen and Penuche’s,” Wilson said. “They have good food, they’re great bars and they feature music; but this has music as the main focus.”

For the Halloween-themed RoC-toberfest, the band will play a set drawing from its latest album, Livin’ Free, and a reggaefied Grateful Dub/Dead set.

“That’s going to be my musical costume for the night,” Wilson said.

He’ll also play a solo acoustic tribute to Sublime founder Bradley Nowell.

Saturday’s show is co-headlined by two relative newcomers. North Carolina band Failure Anthem released its debut album First World Problems in January and recently premiered the Jeremy Brookverdirected “Here for Good,” a video depicting the struggles faced by returning soldiers.

Through Fire, the creation of Midwestern

• LA VENT DU NORD at Dana Center (100 Saint Anselm Dr, Manchester 641-7700) on Friday, Oct. 28, 7:30 p.m. $33.75/adults - Back by popular demand! Le Vent du Nord’s Quebecois soul and New Orleans R&B rock the house like a raucous Saturday night kitchen party, giving old tunes and traditional instruments modern drive and energy. Barefoot Movement opens.

rock polyglot Justin McCain, put out its first disc last summer.

Though the active rock concert resembles the clubs’s past life, one thing will be missing: the dubious practice of requiring performers to buy and resell tickets to their own shows, often at a loss.

“There’s no more pay to play,” new owner John Crosson said before the Session Americana show in September. “That’s one of the main ways we’re different.”

For Manchester music entrepreneur Dave Roberge, who booked the Eric Gales show, the change in policy is a key reason he’s working with Jewel.

“It’s exactly why I got involved,” he wrote in text exchange. “More genres and no P4P.” He’ll follow the Gales gig in December when he brings Greek band Barb Wire Dolls to town.

Gales is a guitar prodigy who made his first major-label album as a teenager, the same year he won Best New Talent in a Guitar World magazine poll. Now a 25-year veteran, he’s been praised by Carlos Santana, who called him “absolutely incredible” and earned admiration from Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, B.B. King, Eric Clapton and other musical luminaries. Gales counts influences from Albert King to Eric Johnson.

Local performers MB Padfield and MoGuitar Blues featuring Gordy Pettipas will open.

Looking ahead, some of the shows scheduled include Royal Southern Brotherhood Nov. 4, ’90s alt rockers Sponge Nov. 9, The Upper Crust Nov. 26 and Supersuckers Nov. 29. The venue’s first comedy show is set for Dec. 18.

The steady flow of original talent depends on the local scene. It’s a two-way street, and fans need to turn out in sufficient numbers for the effort to succeed. Additionally, Jewel encourages participation beyond simply attending a show or two. For one thing, the club really needs a new name.

Beans on Toast offered The Crossing; other suggestions include Chords and GSMH. Anyone with a better idea should send it to the venue’s Facebook page. Better still, go to a show and deliver it face to face.

• SCOTT SOLSKY & LYNNE TAYLOR at Inspire Music Studio (47 River St., Franklin 998-9676) on Friday, Oct. 28, 7 p.m. Enjoy an Acoustic Session with Lynne Taylor & Scott Solsky. $5 pre-buy or $10 at the door.

• HALLOWEEN DANCE at American Legion Post 51 (Rte. 125 (Across from Telly's, Epping 6798320) on Saturday, Oct. 29, 8 p.m.

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• BROOKS WILLIAMS at Deb's Chesham House Concerts (Call for venue, Harrisville 318-9196) on Sunday, October 30, 7:30 p.m. $20 – Back by popular demand; potluck at 6:30. Tickets available at ticketstage. com.

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Derryfield Country Club Claremont 267-7778 Exeter 366-4341 625 Mammoth Rd New Socials Shooters Tavern Pimentos Hanover Paradise Beach Club 623-2880 Rt. 3 DW Hwy 528-2444 2 Pleasant St. 287-4416 69 Water St. 583-4501 Salt Hill Pub Whiskey 20 Shooter’s Pub 7 Lebanon St. 676-7855 322 Lakeside Ave. 366-2665 20 Old Granite St. Deerfield Boscawen 6 Columbus Ave. Canoe Club 641-2583 Nine Lions Tavern Alan’s 772-3856 27 S. Main St. 643-9660 Patio Garden Lakeside Ave. Fratello’s 133 N. Main St. 753-6631 4 North Rd 463-7374 Pitman’s Freight Room 155 Dow St. 624-2022 Francestown Henniker 94 New Salem St. Ignite Bar & Grille Derry Bow Toll Booth Tavern Country Spirit 100 Hanover St. 494-6225 Drae Chen Yang Li 740 2nd NH Tpke 262 Maple St. 428-7007 527-0043 Tower Hill Tavern Imago Dei 520 South St. 228-8508 14 E Broadway #A 588-1800 Pat’s Peak Sled Pub 264 Lakeside Ave. 123 Hanove St. 216-2713 24 Flander’s Road 366-9100 Jewel Halligan Tavern Bristol Gilford 888-728-7732 Weirs Beach Lobster 61 Canal St. 819-9336 Back Room at the Mill 32 W. Broadway Ellacoya Barn & Grille Pound Karma Hookah & 965-3490 2 Central St. 744-0405 2667 Lakeshore Road Hillsborough 72 Endicott St. 366-2255 Cigar Bar Purple Pit 293-8700 Mama McDonough’s 1077 Elm St. 647-6653 28 Central Sq. 744-7800 Dover Patrick’s 5 Depot St. 680-4148 Lebanon KC’s Rib Shack 7th Settlement Brewery 18 Weirs Road 293-0841 Tooky Mills Rumor Mill Salt Hill Pub 837 Second St. 627-RIBS 50 S Main St, 217-0971 47 Washington St. 9 Depot St. 2 West Park St. 448-4532 Midnight Rodeo (Yard) 373-1001 Goffstown 464-6700 1211 S. Mammoth Rd Asia Concord Village Trestle Turismo 623-3545 42 Third St. 742-9816 Barley House 25 Main St. 497-8230 55 Henniker St. 680-4440 Londonderry Coach Stop Tavern Milly’s Tavern Cara Irish Pub 132 N. Main 228-6363 176 Mammoth Rd 500 Commercial St. 11 Fourth St. 343-4390 Hampton CC Tomatoes Hooksett 437-2022 625-4444 Dover Brick House 209 Fisherville Rd Ashworth By The Sea Asian Breeze Stumble Inn Modern Gypsy 2 Orchard St. 749-3838 295 Ocean Blvd.

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Fury’s Publick House Cheers 926-6762 621-9298 432-3210 Murphy’s Taproom 1 Washington St. 17 Depot St. 228-0180 Bernie’s Beach Bar New England’s Tap Whippersnappers 494 Elm St. 644-3535 617-3633 Granite 73 Ocean Blvd 926-5050 House Grille 44 Nashua Rd 434-2660 N’awlins Grille 96 Pleasant St. 227-9000 Sonny’s Tavern Boardwalk Inn & Cafe 1292 Hooksett Rd 860 Elm St. 606-2488 83 Washington St. Hermanos 139 Ocean Blvd. 929-7400 782-5137 Loudon Penuche’s 742-4226 11 Hills Ave. 224-5669 Breakers at Ashworth Hungry Buffalo 96 Hanover St. 626-9830 Top of the Chop Makris 295 Ocean Blvd. 926-6762 Hudson 58 Rte 129 798-3737 Portland Pie Company 1 Orchard St. 740-0006 Breakers By the Sea 354 Sheep Davis Road AJ’s Sports Bar 786 Elm St. 622-7437 225-7665 409 Ocean Blvd 926-7702 11 Tracy Lane 718-1102

Thursday, Oct. 27 Auburn Auburn Pitts: Jam w/ Tom Ballerini Blues Band

Hermanos: Jon Lorentz Penuche's: Trunk O' Funk

Schuster's: Rob Ames Jazz Duo

Dover Cara: Bluegrass w/Steve Roy Fury's: Hambone

Manchester Central Ale: Jonny Friday Blues Hanover City Sports Grille: DJ Dave Canoe Club: Bob Lucier Foundry: Justin Cohn Salt hill Pub: Irish Trad' Session Fratello's: Jazz Night Randy Miller/Roger Kahle Manchvegas: Open Acoustic Jam w/ Jim Devlin Hillsborough Penuche's: Danny Bedrosian's Turismo: Line Dancing Secret Army (P-Funk) / Icculus/ Friendship Lebanon Shaskeen: Roadsaw, Worshipper, Salt hill: Celtic Open Session Hey Zeus

Bedford Copper Door: Triana Wilson Epping (Not A Halloween Party) Telly's: Brad Bosse Boscawen Exeter Alan's: John Pratte Station 19: Thursday Night Live Concord Gilford Common Man: Kate West Patrick's: Paul Warnick Granite: CJ Poole Duo

Hampton CR's: Don Severance

Londonderry Coach Stop: Mark Huzar

Salona Bar & Grill 128 Maple St. 624-4020 Shaskeen 909 Elm St. 625-0246 Shorty’s 1050 Bicentennial Drive 625-1730 South Side Tavern 1279 S Willow St. 935-9947 Strange Brew Tavern 88 Market St. 666-4292 Thrifty’s Soundstage 1015 Candia Road 603-518-5413 Tin Roof Tavern 333 Valley St. 792-1110 Wild Rover 21 Kosciuszko St. 669-7722

Nashua 110 Grill 27 Trafalgar Sq. 943-7443 5 Dragons 29 Railroad Sq. 578-0702 Arena 53 High St. 881-9060 Boston Billiard Club 55 Northeastern Blvd.

943-5630 Burton’s Grill 310 Daniel Webster Highway 888-4880 Country Tavern 452 Amherst St. 889-5871 Dolly Shakers 38 East Hollis St. 577-1718 Fody’s Tavern 9 Clinton St. 577-9015 Fratello’s Italian Grille Mason 194 Main St. Marty’s Driving Range 889-2022 96 Old Turnpike Rd Haluwa Lounge 878-1324 Nashua Mall 883-6662 Killarney’s Irish Pub Meredith 9 Northeastern Blvd.

Giuseppe’s Ristorante 888-1551 312 DW Hwy 279-3313 O’Shea’s 449 Amherst St. 943-7089 Merrimack Peddler’s Daughter Homestead 48 Main St. 821-7535 641 DW Hwy 429-2022 Portland Pie Company Jade Dragon 14 Railroad Sq 882-7437 515 DW Hwy 424-2280 Riverwalk Pacific Fusion 35 Railroad Sq 578-0200 356 DW Hwy 424-6320 Shorty’s Tortilla Flat 48 Gusabel Ave. 882-4070 594 Daniel Webster Stella Blu Hwy 262-1693 70 E. Pearl St. 578-5557 Thirsty Turtle Milford 8 Temple St. 402-4136 J’s Tavern 63 Union Square 554-1433 New Boston Lefty’s Lanes Molly’s Tavern 244 Elm St. 554-8300 35 Mont Vernon Rd Pasta Loft 487-2011 241 Union Square 672-2270 Newbury Shaka’s Bar & Grill Goosefeathers Pub 11 Wilton Rd 554-1224 Mt. Sunapee 763-3500 Tiebreakers at Salt Hill Pub Hampshire Hills 1407 Rt 103 763-2667 50 Emerson Rd 673-7123 Union Coffee Co. New Castle 42 South St. 554-8879 Wentworth By The Sea 588 Wentworth Rd Moultonborough 422-7322 Castle in the Clouds 455 Old Mountain Road New London 478-5900 Flying Goose 40 Andover Road 526-6899

Shorty's: Clint LaPointe Strange Brew: Peter Parcek Whiskey's 20: DJs Shawn White/ Ryan Nichols/Mike Mazz Wild Rover: Austin Pratt Merrimack Homestead: Bob Rutherford Nashua Agave Azul: DJ K-Wil Ladies Night Arena: College Night, DJ Hizzy Country Tavern: Tom Keating Fody's: White Steer

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Newmarket Stone Church: Irish Music w/ Jordan Tirrell-Wysocki & Jim Prendergast Peterborough Harlow's: Bluegrass Night

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Newington Paddy’s 27 International Drive 430-9450 Newmarket Riverworks 164 Main St. 659-6119 Stone Church 5 Granite St. 659-7700 Three Chimneys 17 Newmarket Rd. 868-7800 Newport Salt Hill Pub 58 Main St. 863-7774 Peterborough Harlow’s Pub 3 School St. 924-6365 Pelham Shooters 116 Bridge St. 635-3577 Pittsfield Molly’s Tavern 32 Main St. 487-2011 Plaistow Crow’s Nest 181 Plaistow Road 974-1686 Racks Bar & Grill 20 Plaistow Road 974-2406 Portsmouth Blue Mermaid Island 409 The Hill 427-2583 British Beer Company 103 Hanover St. 5010515

Cafe Nostimo 72 Mirona Rd. 436-3100 Demeters Steakhouse 3612 Lafayette Rd. 766-0001 Dolphin Striker 15 Bow St. 431-5222 Fat Belly’s 2 Bow St. 610-4227 Grill 28 200 Grafton Road 433-1331 Hilton Garden Inn 100 High St. 431-1499 Lazy Jacks 58 Ceres St. 294-0111 Martingale Wharf 99 Bow St. 431-0901 Oar House 55 Ceres St. 436-4025 Portsmouth Book & Bar 40 Pleasant St. 427-9197 Portsmouth Gas Light 64 Market St. 430-9122 Press Room 77 Daniel St. 431-5186 Red Door 107 State St. 373-6827 Redhook Brewery 1 Redhook Way 430-8600 Ri Ra Irish Pub 22 Market Sq 319-1680 Rudi’s 20 High St. 430-7834 Rusty Hammer 49 Pleasant St. 319-6981 Thirsty Moose 21 Congress St. 427-8645 Raymond Cork n’ Keg 4 Essex Drive 244-1573

Portsmouth Dolphin Striker: Sidecar Fat Belly's: DJ Flex Portsmouth Book & Bar: Ian Ethan Case Press Room: Belle of the Fall Red Door: Green Lion Crew Rudi's: Sal Hughes Thirsty Moose: Tom Boisse Seabrook Chop Shop: Spent Fuel Weare Stark House: Lisa Guyer Solo Windham Common Man: Kim Riley Friday, Oct. 28 Bedford Shorty's: Austin Pratt Belmont Lakes Region Casino: DJ Mark Boscawen Alan's: Halloween Party Claremont Taverne: Andrew Merzi

Rochester Gary’s 38 Milton Rd 335-4279 Governor’s Inn 78 Wakefield St. 332-0107 Lilac City Grille 103 N. Main St. 3323984 Revolution Tap Room 61 N Main St. 244-3022 Radloff’s 38 N. Main St. 948-1073 Smokey’s Tavern 11 Farmington 330-3100 Salem Barking Bean 163 Main St. 458-2885 Black Water Grill 43 Pelham Rd 328-9013 Jocelyn’s Lounge 355 S Broadway 870-0045 Sayde’s Restaurant 136 Cluff Crossing 890-1032 Seabrook Castaways 209 Ocean Blvd 760-7500 Chop Shop 920 Lafayette Rd 760-7706

Kelley’s Row 417 Route 108 692-2200 Old Rail Pizza Co. 6 Main St. 841-7152 Sunapee One Mile West Tavern 6 Brook Road 863-7500 Sunapee Coffee House Rte. 11 Lower Main St. 229-1859 Suncook Olympus Pizza 42 Allenstwon Rd. 485-5288 Tilton Black Swan Inn 354 W Main St. 286-4524 Warner Local 2 E Main St. 456-6066 Weare Stark House Tavern 487 S Stark Hwy 529-7747 West Lebanon Seven Barrel Brewery 5 Airport Rd 298-5566

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Windham Common Man 88 Range Rd 898-0088 Jonathon’s Lounge Park Place Lanes, Route 28 800-892-0568 Red’s Tavern 22 Haverhill Dr. 437-7251

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Hanover Canoe Club: Gillian Joy Salt Hill: Mark & Deb Bond

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Schuster's: Dan the Muzak Man Goffstown Village Trestle: Halloween Costume Party w/Bone Shakerz Hampton Community Oven: Ryan Fitzsimmons North Beach Bar & Grille: Wooden Nickels Savory Square: Mel & John 3rd Annual Halloween Party Wally's Pub: Prospect Hill's Halloween Bash w/ Wayland, Thurkills Vision, Planeside & Hunter

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Goffstown Village Trestle: Wan-tu Blues Band & Jam Hudson River's Pub: Acoustic Jam Manchester Jewel: Eric Gales Shaskeen: Rap, Industry night Strange Brew: Jam Meredith Giuseppe's: Open Stage Nashua Agave Azul: DJ Rich Riverwalk: Background Orcs Newmarket Stone Church: The Opined Few Portsmouth Dolphin Striker: Joel Cage Press Room: Jazz - Mike Tucker & Tucker Antell Red Door: Trap Night w/ Adfero & Yung Abner Ri Ra: Irish Session Rochester Radloff's: James McGarvey Monday, Oct. 31 Concord Hermanos: Gerry Beaudoin Hanover Canoe: Marko the Magician Salt Hill Pub: Hootenanny Manchester Central Ale: Jonny Friday Duo Fratello's: Rob Wolfe or Phil Jacques Merrimack Homestead: Doug Thompson Nashua Dolly Shakers: Monday's Muse w Lisa Guyer Fratello's: Ryan Williamson Newmarket Stone Church: Wild Eagle Halloween Party Portsmouth Dolphin Striker: Old School Press Room: Weird Turn Pro Ri Ra: Oran Mor Tuesday, Nov. 1 Dover Fury's: Tim Theriault and Friends Sonny's: Soggy Po' Boys Gilford Patrick's: Jon Lorentz hosts Hanover Canoe Club: Bruce Gregori

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Gemini (May 21 – June 20) ...many performers are big presences on stage, but quite shy off. There is, after all a huge difference between pretending you’re somebody else and being yourself.

So which are you going to do?

Cancer (June 21 – July 22) I was always quite good at Latin, and at maths. … Then history! Why was I being told that King Alfred burnt the cakes? If it was that they didn’t want me to burn cakes, why didn’t they just say so?

What had King Alfred got to do with it? And anyway, if he was King, why on earth was he doing the cooking? … None of it made any sense at all, at that rattled me, as I was still at an age when I thought things were meant to make sense, and I got quite anxious when they didn’t. Some things make sense. Some don’t.

Leo (July 23 – Aug. 22) … never tell a boy, “Stop talking,” because he will always claim he wasn’t. You must say, “Don’t talk.” Then when he denies that he was talking, you can say, “I didn’t say you were, I said, ‘Don’t!’

This leaves him with nowhere to go. Think about what you’re really saying to people.

Virgo (Aug. 23 – Sept. 22) My father had once told me there was a tradition of law in our family; I subsequently discovered he was referring to his father’s position as a solicitor’s clerk. Don’t be fooled by a shiny resume.

Libra (Sept. 23 – Oct. 22) I once sponsored ... research into the intelligence of cats, as I had been irritated by my vet’s derogatory assessment of one of mine. ... I received back from the Sussex University professor…, “Cats are very intelligent at all the things that cats need to be intelligent about,” which was only slightly less irksome than the original veterinary put-down. They are, and so are you.

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All quotes are from So, Anyway…, by John Cleese, born Oct. 27, 1939.

Scorpio (Oct. 23 – Nov. 21) I only had to turn up half an hour before the show, deliver my infrequent lines, make sure I stayed out of the orchestra pit, avoid becoming too conspicuous during the polka… and retire to my dressing room to read…. Don’t become too conspicuous during the polka.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22 – Dec. 21) It was about now that I encountered the teacher who made the greatest impression on me: Mr. Bartlett. He became my maths master, and during the first term he taught me, I have to confess that I understood next to nothing. But when he taught me the same things next term, I grasped them instantly: they had become self-evident. Re-take the class.

Capricorn (Dec. 22 – Jan. 19) I never actually understood many of the rules of the games I was playing, but then that doesn’t matter much to small boys…. Anyway, what happens is that every now and again you learn another rule until eventually you know enough to play properly. Pay attention to the rules.

Aquarius (Jan. 20 – Feb. 18) I could not have been more astonished at what I was spectating if the two of them had quietly levitated, morphed into pterodactyls, and flown out of the window. Prepare to be astonished.

Pisces (Feb. 19 – March 20) Unfortunately you have to have some creative ability before you can recognise it in others. Your creative side may be on the rise.

Aries (March 21 – April 19) At this moment, I was paralysed by the realisation that I was never, never going to find a way of transferring this piece of information from my mind into his. I would have been more gainfully employed explaining the concept of antimatter to a hamster. You may be barking up the wrong hamster.

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Kevin and Tammy Jones opened their guns-and-coffee store in an old bank building in Hamilton, Virginia, in August, but despite the controversies about the ease of gun acquisition in America, their Bullets and Beans shop has had a harder time pleasing government regulators over the coffee than over the firearms. Kevin told Washingtonian magazine that there were no problems in getting gun-shop and firearms-instruction permits from state and federal agencies, but several local-government roadblocks delayed the coffee-sales permit: the property being zoned for retail but not food or drinks; permission to open certain businesses near residences; and a coffee shop’s need to have parking.

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Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin declared Oct. 13 Oilfield Prayer Day to cap a statewide initiative of mass wishing for improved performance of the state’s energy industry, which has been in the doldrums recently with the worldwide drop in oil prices. Though the initiative’s founders, and the associated Oil Patch Chaplains, were largely Baptist church leaders, the governor emphasized that all religions should be praying for a more prosperous industry.

Cultural diversity

• In September, a court in Paris upheld France’s government ban on people smiling for their passport and identity photos.

One official had challenged the required straightforward pose (“neutral,” “mouth closed”), lamenting that the French should be encouraged to smile to overcome the perpetual “national depression” that supposedly permeates the country’s psyche.

• The baseball-like “pesapallo” might be Finland’s national game, reported The New York Times in September, despite its differences from the American pastime.

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The ball is pitched to the batter but vertically, by a pitcher standing next to the batter, and the batter runs the bases after hitting it, though not counterclockwise but zigzag style, to a base on the left, then one on the right, then back to the left. The game was invented in Finland in 1920 and has achieved minor notoriety, with teams from Germany, Switzerland, Sweden and Australia vying for a “world cup” that so far none has been able to wrest from Finland. (Reassuringly, however, “three strikes” is an out in Finland, too.)

New World order

• Too Much Time on Their Hands: In an October profile of tech developer and startup savant Sam Altman, The New Yorker disclosed that “many people in Silicon Valley have become obsessed with the simulation hypothesis” that “what we experience as reality” is just some dark force’s computer simulation (as in the movie “The Matrix”). “Two tech billionaires,” the magazine reported, are “secretly engag(ing) scientists” to break us out of this alternative universe we might be trapped in. (One prominent member of the tech elite remarked at a Vox Media conference in June on how the “simulation hypothesis” seems to dominate all conversation whenever the elites gather.)

• Scientists from England’s Bath University, publishing in a September issue of Nature Communications, report success in creating enduring live mice without use of a fertilized egg. The researchers showed it possible that a sperm cell can “trick” an egg into becoming a full-featured embryo without a

“fertilization” process (in which distinct genomes from sperm and egg were thought to be required, at least in mammals). The scientists were thus able to “challenge nearly two centuries of conventional wisdom.”

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• Couldn’t Stop Myself: (1) Joshua Hunt, 31, was arrested in October inside St. Francis Hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he had gone to check on his 9-month-old son, who was being treated for an injury. Police said that while in the ward, he snatched another visitor’s purse and took a cellphone and credit cards. (2) Brittany Carulli, 25, was arrested in Harrison Township, New Jersey, in October, charged with stealing a medic’s wallet from inside an ambulance. The medic had allowed Carulli in the ambulance to grieve over her boyfriend’s body after he was struck and killed by a car.

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