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New England has some of the highest electric rates in the nation. Rates in New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and New York are all in the top 10 for highest electric rates.

These higher rates are a substantial burden on businesses and residents. For example, a typical restaurant in New Hampshire can easily pay more than $1,000 a month for electricity; in Utah that $1,000 bill would be about $625.

In New Hampshire a resident who pays $200 for their monthly electric bill would pay about $125 in Utah. Other than making it more expensive to live and work here, higher electric costs put New England (and New Hampshire) at a disadvantage when attracting certain kinds of companies, such as manufacturers that require large amounts of electricity to run machinery or process materials.

Why New Hampshire and all of New England has electric rates so much higher than pretty much all other states except Hawaii and Alaska is complicated. But it boils down to a few things: Power is regional, our utilities have made some poor decisions over the years, we have tighter environmental regulations, we have limited supplies of natural gas and we don’t have large sources of less expensive power.

Looking for solutions, companies have proposed gas lines into New England and bringing hydro power in from Quebec, the idea being that if we introduce less expensive electric into our New England grid it will drive down wholesale costs. Recently these efforts have taken the form of a gas line proposal across parts of western Massachusetts, a gas line through New Hampshire and the Northern Pass project to bring hydro power down from Quebec. All of these projects have faced stiff local opposition. Other efforts to bring wind power to New England have also faced serious opposition. Projects in New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont and Massachusetts have all been stalled or denied. No one wants power lines, wind turbines or gas lines in their backyard, frontyard or view. But these are needed utilities. They need to go someplace, and in New England and New Hampshire much of the landscape is beautiful. A balance is required.

Eversource agreed to bury 60 miles of power lines through the White Mountain National Forest and Franconia Notch to reduce the impact on the view. This seemed like a good compromise, but opposition continues. The project remains important both in terms of producing clean electricity (as compared to coal powered from Bow) and in terms of its sheer size. It’ll bring down enough electricity to power nearly 600,000 homes. Another major project is under way off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard that will power over 400,000 homes. It’s a start.

We need to put pressure on our elected officials to continue to looks for ways to lower energy costs and bring in more low-cost, environmentally sound projects.

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Treatment network

Last week, the AP reported that Gov. Chris Sununu and state officials announced a new “hub-and-spoke” system to treat substance use disorder across the state. The plan is modeled after a system used in Vermont, which connects local treatment centers with doctors to better support patients nearer to where they live.

These treatment hubs will be located in Berlin, Concord, Dover, Hanover, Keene, Laconia, Littleton, Manchester and Nashua, all of which will be supported by a 24/7 hotline that directs residents to treatment. These health care providers will receive about $9 million annually. “We have a very centralized system in Concord and Manchester, and we want to make sure people no longer have to drive 200 miles south to receive care,” Sununu said during an interview for Hippo’s election coverage. “We have to make sure we’re providing quality of services around the entire state and really expanding the number of services.”

SNHU merger

Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester and LRNG are merging to build a learning and workforce program for cities and employers, according to a news release. LRNG is a project of the organization Collective Shift, which works with cities and organizations to connect learning experiences and career opportunities for young people, particularly those from underserved communities. The university will work with LRNG to provide learning resources for students’ libraries, community centers and other pub-

licly accessible spaces. Initially, the organizations will introduce the program in Birmingham, Alabama, and Chicago, Illinois, with plans to expand to other cities.

Paul LeBlanc, president and CEO of the university, wrote in a statement, “We are excited to work with LRNG and cities across the U.S. to address some of the most pressing workforce needs of our time and give people the skills they need to thrive in an increasingly complex and uncertain workforce and society.”

Priest abuse

Bishop Peter Libasci of the Catholic Diocese of Manchester sent a letter to local parishioners responding to recent sexual abuse accusations within the Catholic community, according to the New Hampshire Council of Churches.

The bishop wrote that the “revelations have left me sickened, shaken, embarrassed, and heartbroken.” He went on to comment on efforts of the Manchester Diocese, writing that church officials have been “continuing their work in evaluating our policies, procedures, and resources to ensure that we are doing all we can locally to prevent sexual abuse and other forms of abuse against minors and adults in the Church.” In 2003, the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office released a report from an “intense investigation” of how the Manchester Diocese handled allegations that priests committed sexual assaults against minors over a 40-year period. The investigation resulted in an agreement to create “a system of accountability, oversight, transparency, and training.”

Student loans

For the second consecutive year, the New Hampshire Higher Education Assistance Foundation had the lowest Cohort Default Rate on student loans in the country, according to a news release. The U.S. Department of Education reports this rate based on the percentage of a school’s borrowers in the Federal Family Education Loan Program who have to enter repayment plans. Based on information from the 2015 federal fiscal year, NHHEAF had the lowest three-year default rate at 3.1 percent. This was the sixth of the last seven years that the organization led the nation in this category.

Despite the lack of defaults, New Hampshire students overall still face a significant amount of debt.

According to the Institute for College Access and Success, New Hampshire’s Class of 2017 graduated with an average of $34,415 in student debt, the fourth-highest amount in the country. The Granite State tied with South Dakota and West Virginia for the greatest percentage of 2017 graduates with debt at 74 percent.

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L3 Technologies, which employs approximately 900 workers at its Insight Technology division in Londonderry, announced an equal merger with Harris Corporation in Florida. The combined company will be the sixthlargest defense company in the U.S. and a top 10 defense company globally. When asked how the merger will affect the Londonderry facility, a representative from L3 told the Hippo that “it is too early in the process to comment on specific operations.”

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Rivier University in Nashua announced that it broke Bedford ground on a new athletics pavilion and renovations to its Raider Diamond softball field, due Amherst to open in July 2019. The $5 million project will include stadium seating, Milford team rooms and dugouts, a training room, locker rooms, press boxes and field lighting.

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The top 10 highest-paid occupations in New Hampshire are all in health care-related fields, according to the 2018 Occupational Employment and Wages Report from the New Hampshire Economic and Labor Market Information Bureau. Surgeons topped the list, with an average wage of $148.53/hour. The top four highestearning professions were rounded out by specialized surgical positions, followed by internal medicine physicians ($133.13/hour), obstetricians and gynecologists ($131.89/hour), family and general practitioners ($127.05/hour), psychiatrists ($108.19/hour), dentists ($108.02/ hour) and pediatricians ($101.88/hour).

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The average member of New Hampshire’s state house and senate is 65 years old, according to a December 2015 joint report from the National Conference of State Legislatures and Pew Charitable Trusts on the demographics of the country’s representatives.

That’s a full 13 years older than the state’s median age of about 42 years old, according to the most recent U.S. Census data.

“Representation matters, and it matters for people who might be thinking of moving to New Hampshire or who live here and might be thinking of moving,” said Joe Sweeney (R-Salem), a 24-year-old former state representative and chair of the New Hampshire Young Republicans. “When there’s a large age disparity between New Hampshire reps [and their constituents], there can be a bit of a disconnect.”

New Hampshire’s Young Republican and Democrat organizations both reported that record numbers of young candidates are on the ballot in this year’s election. Yet state legislators’ job descriptions still present roadblocks for recruiting young people to run for office.

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Rep. Amelia Keane (D-Nashua) echoed a need for young people in Concord. Keane, 27, became involved in politics in 2016 and now works as executive director of the New Hampshire Young Democrats.

During their terms as representatives, Keane and Sweeney were both in college and able to work with their professors and structure their class schedules in order to attend committee meetings and voting sessions. However, they acknowledge that for other young professionals, the time commitment of being a legislator can be extremely challenging.

Excluding special sessions, the New Hampshire legislature meets from January to June every year. Hearings, votes and committee meetings take place on multiple days during the week, making it difficult to navigate those commitments alongside a full-time job.

“More powerful committees in the Statehouse meet three times a week for the first three weeks of a session,” said Sweeney. “In order to be on those committees, you need to have time to serve and almost need a full-time presence, which really shuts out young voices from the process.”

When Rep. Mary Jane Wallner (D-Concord) began her 19-term career as a state legislator, she found it challenging to balance her family and a job with being a representative. Wallner, who was in her early 30s when first elected, said living a few blocks away from the Statehouse in Concord was crucial for her, and she recognizes

that long commutes present challenges for legislators elsewhere in the state.

“I often say that I never would have been able to serve all these years if I’d lived almost any place but Concord,” said Wallner. “Think about someone from Berlin coming down [to Concord]. … When sessions would end, I would be on my way home to cook dinner for my kids, and my colleagues would still have two-hour drives ahead of them.”

Sweeney said it’s difficult to change the status quo but noted that a potential fix could be to hold a condensed session that resembles a political convention, or to hold meetings after business hours.

“There could be a completely different legislature if there were meetings on weekends or at nights,” he said. “It works pretty well for municipalities across the state, so that might be something the state could consider.”

Cost of office

The accompanying salary hardly matches what likely feels like a part-time job during regular sessions. Along with reimbursement for gas mileage, representatives receive $200 for each two-year term.

“You get what you pay for, and you’re not going to get people to give up their careers,” said Rep. Frank Sapareto (R-Derry), who’s serving his seventh term in the House and is 58 years old. “I can think of some great people who could do good for the state, but they really can’t afford to quit their job.”

When Keane meets with young people who might want to run for office, she said concerns over time and money come up frequently. Wallner agreed that young people, and even people in their 40s and 50s, can’t afford to cut into their peak earning years. She said potential candidates she approaches have often said they’ll consider running when they retire.

That was exactly the route taken by Rep. Norman Major (R-Plaistow), who’s serving his 11th term in the House and is 84 years old.

Major has been an elected or appointed official in Plaistow for over 50 years. But when it came to running for a seat in Concord, he had to wait until he retired.

“I could never afford to become a legislator, because I needed to provide for my family,” said Major. “When I retired 22 years ago, somebody talked me into running for the legislature.”

Rep. Laura Pantelakos (D-Portsmouth) is serving her 20th consecutive term in the New Hampshire House and is the chamber’s longest tenured member. At 83, she said she’s happy to provide advice to young legislators who ask for it.

“I hope more [young people] decide to run, and I do wish we paid enough so that they could run,” she said. “I tell them if [they] decide to

run, it’s a great experience.”

Different issues for younger reps?

One of the tipping points that inspired Keane to run was hearing disparaging comments from a state representative about investing in passenger rail. Keane described rail as one of many “priorities for young people” that might not resonate with older legislators.

“Young people are in school, have families and are looking to settle down and buy their first homes,” said Keane. “People who are more disconnected from buying their first home or [paying] college tuition might not understand the specific issues we [younger people] have in New Hampshire.”

Sweeney said most Republicans he knows, regardless of age, do align on specific issues, such as opposing publicly-funded passenger rail, being fiscally conservative and pro-life.

However, he said, support for certain social issues, like LGBTQ rights, is often split by age.

Keane also noticed an age divide when the legislature considered an anti-discrimination bill for transgender individuals in 2016 and 2017, which ultimately passed into law this year. And while she doesn’t doubt that older legislators care about issues like student debt and costly childcare, Keane said they might not be their first priority in terms of surplus spending since these are typically challenges faced by younger people.

Pushing ahead

Even with these roadblocks, Keane and Sweeney were highly optimistic about the involvement of young people in local politics.

The New Hampshire Young Democrats and Republicans both provide support services for young people interested in running for office.

Both groups broke their previous records for young candidates running for office in state legislature and municipal elections during the most recent primary, and combined, Sweeney said, “well over 100” young candidates still in the running for various state offices. That includes individuals ranging from 19 to 39 years old for the Democrats, Keane said, and from 18 to candidates in their 30s for the Republicans, according to Sweeney.

Joseph Alexander (R-Goffstown), a 23-yearold member of the Goffstown Budget Committee, said he is running for State Rep to “keep taxes low and protect our Constitutional Rights.” As a graduate student at UNH and full-time bartender, he said that he has a “flexible schedule.”

Alexander added that since the budget committee’s major commitments are at the end of the year during budget season, and the House Session runs from January to June, he will be able to be “fully involved in both commitments.”

Cole Riel (D-Goffstown), who’s also a 23-yearold member of the town’s Budget Committee, said he is running for State Rep to be “an intense advocate for public education, to protect and expand voting rights and increase healthcare access.” He added that his municipal meetings have always occurred at night, leaving him time to work during the day. With legislative sessions occurring during the day, he said this will “require myself to adjust my schedule.”

Kelly Moss (D-Salem), a 34-year-old mother of three, works as a finance analyst manager for a medical device company in Andover, Mass.

She said she is running for state rep “to be a voice for working families in a legislature that is made up of mostly the retired and independently wealthy.” While her job offers enough vacation time and flexible scheduling for her to

serve, she admitted that achieving a work-life balance will be challenging. However, she said, “I was sick of waiting for someone else” to run and support “policies that reflect the realities of life for young families.”

Veteran legislators are open to this influx of young representatives. Major views helping new legislatures learn the ropes to be one of his primary jobs in Concord.

Rep. Neal Kurk (R-Weare), who’s served in the House for 32 years, wrote in an email that younger members “may provide enthusiasm and commitment.”

“They often introduce new ideas and espouse current social, economic and political values,” he wrote. “Mixing those with the ideas and values of long-serving and, perhaps, older members tempers all legislative activity.”

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Ballot battles

Voting debates lead up to midterm elections

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Voting has been the subject of intense interest in New Hampshire — not just who to vote for but how the vote happens and how secure it is.

Recent voting changes include new policy on absentee voting for handicapped residents and an updated residency requirement that takes effect next year.

Election security

In June, the New Hampshire Secretary of State’s Office requested $3.1 million in security funding from the U.S. Election Assistance Commission. The money was sourced from a $380 million federal fund designated for addressing election concerns ahead of the 2018 elections.

David Scanlan, New Hampshire’s deputy secretary of state, reported in August that $250,000 from the state’s grant would be used to hire a firm to identify weaknesses in the New Hampshire election system and invest in software that can detect abnormal activi-

ty. However, neither he nor New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner have reported specific election security concerns. In May, Gardner and other state election officials completed an extensive study of potential voter fraud in the 2016 general election and found no convincing evidence of widespread voter fraud in New Hampshire.

New Hampshire’s voting process is a key reason why the state is “less vulnerable than other states” for instances of voter fraud and election system hacking, Gardner said in an interview. After the Help America Vote Act passed in 2002, Gardner said, the newly formed Election Assistance Commission recommended states use federal funds to invest in “state of the art” electronic voting equipment.

Gardner said roughly half the states did just that, while New Hampshire kept its practice of paper ballot voting and instead used its federal funds to invest in ensuring polling places complied with federal disability rights standards.

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by requesting an absentee voter registration affidavit and a standard voter registration form from your city or town clerk, according to the state website. The affidavit must be witnessed, and then both the affidavit and the voter registration form must be returned to the clerk’s office. To receive an absentee ballot, contact your city or town clerk’s office for a Federal Post Card Application, which will be processed for an election if it is received by the day before the election.

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“larger attack surface” to use to gain entry into states’ voter data.

“If you use a computer and you’re online or using the cloud, you are vulnerable,” said Gardner. “It’s clear anything can be hacked. … There’s nothing yet that any computer scientist will say is safe and nobody can get into.”

During the 2016 election, Gardner said evidence of hacking attempts were found in 21 states; New Hampshire wasn’t among them.

As of a year and half ago, he said over half of the $2.9 billion states spent on voting equipment around 2002 has been “junked,” due to it being antiquated and potentially unsafe.

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Peter Sullivan and Colin Van Ostern are challenging Gardner for the Secretary of State position this year (see “Secretary of State election”). They agreed with Gardner in supporting New Hampshire’s decentralized, non-network dependant voting process.

However, they both had specific suggestions of how to continue ensuring election security in the Granite State.

Sullivan is an attorney who served five terms in the New Hampshire House of Representatives and one term as a member of the Manchester Board of Aldermen. He pointed to the way in which voting information is stored across the state as a potential area of improvement. Among the state’s more than 200 cities and towns, he said, each has widely varying standards for handling voter rolls, with some storing solely on paper and others using different types of computers.

“The first thing we need to do is assess where we stand with a full-scale audit of our technology and our practices and procedures,” said Sullivan. “We need to find what current practices are and develop a set of standards and make sure that information is protected.”

Van Ostern was an executive councilor from 2012 to 2016 and the Democratic nomi-

nee for governor in 2016. He shares concerns published in an election security report released by Democrats on the Committee on House Administration, specifically regarding post-election audits. The committee, which oversees federal elections and day-to-day operations in the U.S. House of Representatives, recommended that New Hampshire begin requiring these audits as a means of checking potential voter fraud. “[About eighty-nine percent] of ballots are counted by machine, and while they’re reliable and secure, [audits] are a great deterrent for interference,” said Van Ostern. “It’s a good safeguard to have a small amount of ballots counted by hand just to make sure they’re accurate.”

Van Ostern also pointed to partisan gerrymandering as another election concern that’s not often discussed in New Hampshire. He said both parties are guilty of this practice, being the intentional redrawing of political districts after a census count to favor a specific parties’ candidates. Instead, Van Ostern recommended having a nonpartisan entity redraw these districts instead.

“My district [for the Executive Council] was totally gerrymandered; it literally bordered Maine, Vermont and Massachusetts at the same time,” said Van Ostern, referring to District 2. “Whoever’s in power has done the gerrymandering to choose their own voters. … It really does put a thumb on scale against how democracy is supposed to work.”

Pertaining to issues in this election, the New Hampshire Campaign for Voting Rights released a statement earlier this month alleging several instances of ballot and sample ballot mistakes in local communities. These issues included ballots distributed to Londonderry voters under the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act that had candidates listed with incorrect party affiliations, as well as a candidate listed as running for two parties on a sample ballot in Bedford. In the towns of Auburn, Chester and Sandown, a candidate who lost in

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State takes place on Saturday, Dec. 1, which is Organization Day for the legislature.

“The House and Senate will meet in Joint Convention to elect constitutional officers,” Scanlon wrote in an email. “There will be nominating and seconding speeches for the candidates and a secret ballot vote will be taken. A majority is needed to win.”

this year’s primary election was included on the general election ballot, while a candidate who won in the primary was left off the general ballot.

Liz Wester, state director for America Votes New Hampshire, said that the corresponding town clerks informed the campaign that these ballots were voided and/or corrected.

On Oct. 19, Assistant Attorney General Matthew Broadhead sent a letter about the ballot issues in response to a complaint filed by the New Hampshire Democratic Party. In the letter, Broadhead wrote that “Errors of this nature do occur from time to time due to the high volume of offices, candidates and ballots that need to be reviewed and prepared within a tight timeframe. In this case, the mistakes were quickly identified and corrected and each voter has been provided a corrected ballot.”

Disability voting

In August, the U.S. District Court for New Hampshire addressed a specific voting concern among handicapped individuals in New Hampshire. Under previous state law, local election officials had the discretion to discount an individual’s absentee ballot if they felt there was a mismatch between the voter’s signature and the signature in their voting registration paperwork.

While Sullivan said he understands the intent of the protocol as an attempt to prevent other people from filling out absentee ballots as their own vote rather than that of the handicapped voter. However, in practice, he said, it resulted in “arbitrary decisions being made on the fly” by local ballot clerks and moderators.

“Your local ballot clerks aren’t handwriting analysts,” said Sullivan. “My father does it in Kingston. He’s not a handwriting expert; he’s a retired sale manager.”

James Ziegra, staff attorney for the Disability Rights Center of New Hampshire in Concord, said this was a particular concern given the nature of some voters’ disabilities.

He said people with a disability that affects their fine motor skills might have their signatures change over time.

ACLU National and the ACLU of New Hampshire brought a lawsuit against the state on behalf of Mary Saucedo, a 95-year-old Manchester woman who is blind. The ACLU claimed that Saucedo was one of more than 500 voters who had their ballots rejected over the last five years.

“What New Hampshire was doing … was disenfranchising voters simply because of their penmanship,” said Gilles Bissonnette, legal director of ACLU-NH. “Frankly, that’s a due process problem — you can’t take away the right to vote without giving any notice or opportunity to cure [the issue].”

U.S. District Judge Landya McCafferty agreed, striking down the law in August.

Gardner said local moderators have been notified of the change and will no longer

judge voters’ signatures in this way for absentee ballots.

“I think the basis is that if it protects some people who should have been able to vote, you air on the side of letting people vote,” said Gardner. “You may get some [people] that [voted] fraudulently, but you don’t want to charge an innocent person.”

Bissonnette said the New Hampshire legislature is open to create a new signature process, though it would have to guarantee due process for voters. However, he claimed that the previous process didn’t uncover any instances of voter fraud.

Before and after the lawsuit, Ziegra said one of the Disability Rights Center’s main focuses is ensuring handicapped voters are registered to vote and aware of how to go about doing so. The center works with local clerks to ensure special voting machines and booths for handicapped voters are working properly, and that polling places are handicap accessible.

“Every single polling place in the state is physically accessible,” said Ziegra. “There are a lot of old towns and a lot of old buildings, but we have not encountered any that are physically inaccessible.”

Student vote

Perhaps the most divisive voting-related debate this year was started by HB1264, which changed the legal definitions of “resident or inhabitant” and “residence or residency.” The law, which takes effect on July 1, 2019, requires official residency in order to vote.

Previously, individuals like out-of-state college students and other temporary residents could vote in New Hampshire with a “domiciled” status. Now, these voters must establish some form of residency in the state, such as applying for a New Hampshire drivers license or registering their car in the state.

“The construction of [previous election] law resulted in a status where we had two classes of voters in New Hampshire,” said Rep. Barbara Griffin (R-Goffstown), chair of the House Election Law Committee.

“The disagreement over ‘domicile’ and ‘residence’ is the reason we do need this [new] definition.”

Gardner agreed, adding that New Hampshire was the only state in the country prior to HB1264 that didn’t require residency to vote.

“Just like anyone else who comes here to work or retire, we all have same standard of what it means to be a resident,” he said.

However, opponents of the bill have claimed since the beginning that it will discourage students from voting and establishes a type of “poll tax.” Rep. Marjorie Porter (D-Hillsborough), a member of the House Election Law Committee, was opposed to the bill for this very reason. She said that from the beginning, there was “no effort to hide” the bill’s goal of preventing students from voting while they’re at school.

“How is it any different if a student lives in state for nine months a year than it is for some of our snowbirds who live here for nine or 10 months a year and then go down to Florida?” said Porter. “We have a problem attracting and keeping young people in state, and I think this makes that problem even worse.”

This has been the central argument of student advocates like Ben Kremer, a senior at UNH in Durham and a member of the New Hampshire Youth Movement on campus.

Kremer grew up in Connecticut but voted in his first election in New Hampshire in 2016.

He said he wants to vote in New Hampshire because it’s “where I live,” and he doesn’t have plans to move back to Connecticut “for an extended period of time.”

“I feel infinitely more connected to New Hampshire right now than I do Connecticut, especially in terms of politics,” said Kremer.

“I couldn’t tell you who’s on the local ballot right now in my hometown. It makes so much more sense to vote in the community I live in and for reps that are actually going to change policy that affects me.”

Since HB1264 doesn’t take effect until July 2019, Wester said organizations like the America Votes New Hampshire are attempting to let students know they can vote like they always have in this year’s election.

On Monday, Oct. 22, the Hillsborough Superior Court in Manchester delivered an injunction on another residency-related election law, SB3, which took effect in Sept. 2017.

That bill required new voters registering more than 30 days before an election to provide proof of domicile, and those registering within 30 days to provide proof of domicile to their town or city clerk’s office after the election.

In his injunction, Superior Court Judge Kenneth Brown wrote that “Given the extraordinarily low rate of documented voter fraud in this state, it is far more likely that more legitimate voters will be dissuaded from voting than illegitimate voters will be prevented.” In response, Gov. Sununu released a statement arguing that “SB3 is a modest change to our election laws that does nothing more than ensure that all those who register to vote present valid identification.”

Election Q&As In the weeks leading up to the general election, the Hippo spoke with the major party nominees for the state’s gubernatorial, congressional and Executive Council races about the issues. And, of course, we got them to weigh in on the best flavor of ice cream. To look back at the conversations, visit hippopress.com and click “Past Issues,” and flip to page 6. Specific candidate Q&As are in the following issues: •Governor: Sept. 27 •U.S. House of Representatives, District 1: Oct. 4 •U.S. House of Representatives, District 2: Oct. 11 •Executive Council: Oct. 18

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What housing services does Families in Transition offer?

Families in Transition started as an organization to assist women who are homeless, and over [27] years … it’s expanded to include hunger relief, [supporting] people with food insecurity and also shelters for families, including men. At this point, Families in Transition really helps the entire homeless population, or those who are in need of some housing. Right now there is a large gap in the amount of affordable housing available to the homeless or those in need of a warm, safe place to live. … My goal here at Families in Transition is to try to increase our stock of affordable housing options for those who need it in our community. … One of the things I love about Families in Transition is … when we’re building an affordable housing unit, it’s always “Would I live there? Would my family live here as well?” … The individuals that we serve deserve that respect, and they deserve a safe place to live that they can call home.

What challenges do you anticipate as you shift from working in business development to overseeing housing development?

It’s definitely an exciting transition. There is a learning curve. My prior experience was more in economic development and commercial development, [including] assisting with financing projects and overseeing commercial development. On one side, it’s similar because there’s financing that’s involved in order to get these projects, even though some of the funding sources are different. But at the end of the day, whether it’s commercial development or affordable housing, [the goal is] to find a piece of real estate [and] be able to develop it using different finances or grants in order to make the budget work so as a nonprofit you can at least break even.

What do you hope to accomplish in your new role?

Prior to coming on [as an employee], I served on the committee and I was a volunteer. ... Now that I’m in the organization … having that opportunity to really help increase the housing stock in Families in Transition’s portfolio is really something that I’m looking to What are you into right now?

In general I’m really interested in fantasy football — I’m just not doing very well this year. Hopefully I’m much better at building affordable housing than I am at building fantasy football teams.

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do. We have all the pieces now in a row … to really be able to develop [housing] on a more consistent basis to try to get to a point where anybody in the community who needs an affordable, safe place to live, we’re able to help accommodate them. …

We also provide a lot of support services with Chris Wellington that, primarily around [behavioral health issues] and substance use disorder. We’re really built to both help with making sure they have a safe place to live … and then we can work with them on their additional issues that they might be facing.

What are some common and unique challenges faced by the communities you’ll be overseeing?

A majority of FIT’s housing portfolio is in Manchester, although we do have locations in Dover, in Concord and also in Wolfeboro that recently opened. We’re primarily in the greater Manchester area, and that’s where a lot of our focus will happen. ... But definitely the rural communities are a little bit different. There’s still a need for affordable housing options, but the need isn’t as great. We have a much higher density and population of individuals that need our services than you see in a lot of urban areas.

What are some local or state initiatives that would help New Hampshire’s housing issues?

Even though we have financing options, [we need] additional support financially, whether through grants or lower-interest loans or some sort of [loan] forgiveness. That’s the hardest thing — being able to put together a financial package that makes sense so we’re able to provide housing that will at least break even. Because just like a real estate company, we basically are a property management company as well. … Everything you would normally see when someone signs a lease for an apartment, we would have to handle all those things, and that takes a substantial amount of money to be able to do it. … We’re going to be very different from a commercial model, but we’re still going to have all the same expenses and overhead that go along with any type of residential development. We want to be able to have options for individuals that have no income and are more in a shelter situation, up to those individuals who are getting back on their feet but need a small subsidy in order to afford rent.

—Scott Murphy

NEWS & NOTES

QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX Crime statistics

New Hampshire saw a slight uptick in violent crimes and a noticeable decrease in property crimes, according to the FBI’s 2017 Crime in the United States report. Law enforcement officials reported 1,728 violent crimes in 2017, a slight uptick from the 1,721 cases in 2016. In this timeframe, property crimes dropped 8.2 percent from 11,923 cases in 2016 to 10,940 cases in 2017.

QOL Score: -1 (for any increase of violent crime; but good news on the property crime) Comment: The FBI considers “murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery and aggravated assault” violent crimes, while property crime includes “burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft and arson.”

Growing employment

New Hampshire Employment Security reported that the state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for September was 2.7 percent, unchanged from the August rate. The state added 1,430 jobs in September, growing the total number of employed New Hampshire residents to 741,480.

QOL Score: +1 Comment: According to Gov. Chris Sununu, the total employment marks the greatest number of employed residents in New Hampshire history.

Opioid progress

The National Safety Council included New Hampshire among 13 states that are improving efforts to combat the opioid crisis. While the council identified New Hampshire as a state with “astronomical [opioid use disorder] rates,” it highlighted the Granite State’s application of state and federal funds to improve treatment options. According to the report, New Hampshire will soon “more than double” the number of beds available for treatment with funding from Medicaid expansion.

QOL Score: +1 Comment: Connecticut and Rhode Island were also included among states improving their response efforts. The council found that Maine, Massachusetts and Vermont are “lagging” in their efforts.

Wealthy households

New Hampshire continues to be one of the wealthiest states in the country. According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s recently released 2017 American Community Survey, the Granite State has an estimated median household income of $73,381, one of only 10 states in the country with a median income of at least $70,000. Only two states — Maryland ($80,776) and New Jersey ($80,088) — had a median household income above $80,000.

QOL Score: +1 Comment: New Hampshire had the third-highest median household income in New England, following Massachusetts ($77,385) and Connecticut ($74,168). The pecking order for the rest of the region was rounded out by Rhode Island ($63,870), Vermont ($57,513) and Maine ($56,277).

QOL Score: 89 Net change: +2 QOL this week: 91 What’s affecting your Quality of Life here in New Hampshire?

Let us know at news@hippopress.com.

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The case for Mookie at second base Nothing irritates me more than people who say we can’t try a new idea because, blah, blah, blah. Sometimes the reason makes perfect sense. But other times it doesn’t. Some aren’t bright enough to even consider anything new, others are risk-averse, which said another way is they’re ’fraidy cats, and some, actually most, just don’t have the imagination to see another way can be better.

History shows even the greatest innovators from the Wright Brothers to Henry Ford to Thomas Edison and Steve Jobs all faced rejection many, many times before the airplane, automobile, light bulb and personal computer changed the world in ways that now seem so obvious. I understand skepticism, because as Jobs once said, the only ones crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do, and most aren’t.

What I don’t get are people who dismiss an idea out of hand before even considering it, which gets under my skin. Glenn Ordway did that to a couple of callers last week to his WEEI program suggesting Alex Cora move Mookie Betts to second base when the Sox lose the DH in the middle three games of the World Series. Followed by what he always does, mocking those with different thinking than his.

The logic is simple, when the DH goes away in the National League park either their leading RBI man J.D. Martinez sits, or he plays right field as he did 57 times during the regular season. If he’s in right that means Betts goes to center, sending Jackie Bradley Jr. to the bench after having nine RBI in the ALCS. The other option would be to keep Bradley in center, play J.D. in right, sit Ian Kinsler and have Mookie go to second base.

Whether he likes the idea or not, Alex Cora’s job as manager is to consider every option before making a final decision. If I

were in his shoes, here’s what I’d take into account: Impact on the Defense: Ordway said moving Mookie to second would weaken the outfield defense, which is a major team strength. True, and if your baseball intellect or self-confidence is an inch deep you will say OK, he’s right. Except it will be weaker whether Betts plays center with Bradley sitting or he plays second with Bradley in center, because J.D. Martinez will be in right field either way, not Mookie. Can’t get around that, unless J.D. sits, and raise your hand if you want that.

Does Defense Really Matter? If you know history, you know the Sox were undone by major defensive mistakes in the 1946 and 1986 World Series. In 1946 it was Johnny Pesky allegedly holding onto an outfield relay too long and letting the Cardinals’ Enos Slaughter score from first on a single to the left-field gap. In ’86 another Mookie’s dribbler went under Bill Buckner’s glove sadly letting the Mets escape with a lucky Game 6 win. Which incidentally happened 32 years ago today. The only real relevance each has to now is they show how costly defensive mistakes can be.

They Survived Eduardo Nunez at Second: I’m not picking on Nunez, who played out of position because Dustin Pedroia surprisingly missed all but four games. But he’s limited defensively there and they still managed to win 108 times as he played there in 74 games. So I suspect they can survive Betts there for three.

It’s Been Done Before: Yes, it’s been 50 years since Detroit moved Mickey Stanley from center field to shortstop in the 1968 series. But even with all of the changes since (mostly to pitching and positioning, though), defense still mattered then, so it was a risk.

But with Ray Oyler hitting just a buck 35 during the season, manager Mayo Smith wanted his four outfielders’ bats in the lineup. So he gambled Stanley could do it, and it was vital to beating St. Louis four games to

three, as outfielders Jim Northrup and Al Kaline led the series in RBI with eight each.

Mookie’s Played There Already: Stanley never played shortstop until the final 10 games in 1968 to get acclimated. Mookie didn’t do that, but he’s far more experienced, having come to the majors as an excellent second baseman who moved to right because he was blocked by Pedroia. Thus it’s likely he’s played more games in his baseball life at second than right, meaning he knows how to play there. No doubt he’ll be rusty, but he’s been taking grounders all year and is a far better athlete than Stanley, so I’ll betts the more experienced Mookie can do it.

It’s a Calculated Risk: You’ve seen what goes into the decision, so the question is, does the manager have the stones to take that risk? Like innovative and gutsy Bill Belichick has had against prevailing wisdom during his 18 years in Foxboro? If you’ve seen his unconventional manipulation of the pitching staff vs. N.Y. and Houston to use starters ahead of their scheduled starts, you know Cora does.

Bottom Line: The Dodgers have three lefty starters, so maybe JBJR plays against just the righty. Unless the first two games show he’s on one of his streaks – then he stays in the line-up. Either way, it’s only three games and I’ll betts Mookie can pull it off.

Finally, to the callers. Ordway picked the Yanks and Astros to win the ALDS and ALCS, wanted Bradley dumped all summer because he said hitting far outweighs fielding, and nearly had a stroke over David Price pitching again after his Yankees start.

So the question is with him now flip-flopping on his own summer-long tirade that hitting trumps defense, why would you expect him to be right now?

Finally, Earth to Glenn: Stop constantly cutting Christian Fauria off so much, unless he starts trying to impersonate Don Yee again – then go for it.

Email Dave Long at dlong@hippopress. com.

For every “oh no,” There’s an “oh yeah.”

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Trinity finishes undefeated

The Big Story: Make it 16-0 for the Trinity boys after 3-1 and 2-1 soccer wins over Gilford and in a battle of undefeated teams with now 14-1-1 Campbell.

Ethan Frenette scored all three goals vs.

Gilford and then came back for another as he and Dom DiZillio scored vs.

Campbell.

Sports 101: Who has fumbled the most times in NFL history?

Bill Belichick Game Ball: To the Trinity football special teams in Friday’s 39-6 win over Stevens of Claremont.

John Thibault took the second-half kickoff back to the house for an 87-yard TD, while for Pete Alisandro it was an 85-yard TD on a punt return. And for good measure Thibault also ran one in from 65 yards out for another score.

Upset of the Week: To Windham for stunning Pinkerton 35-21 in their first ever football meeting. Tommy Emrick ran for 159 and Cody Steven for 69 as they scored on five of their first seven possessions. The loss drops the Astros to 6-2 while the Jaguars improved to 5-3.

Identical Scores Awards: Goes to the

The Numbers

4 – saves by Brooke Nolan and the Derryfield defense as the Cougars were 1-0 winners over Conant behind Paige Wagner’s late second-half goal.

4 – touchdowns scored by the versatile Ben Eichman to lead Merrimack to a 32-24 win over Nashua North that locked up first place in Division I West for the Tomahawks.

11 – saves for Pinkerton goaltender Max Fairbanks

Central girls and boys soccer teams.

Each beat Alvirne 5-0 on Tuesday afternoon. Paige LaBerge led the way for the girls with a hat trick, while for the boys it was five different players scoring goals.

Identical Scores Awards – the Sequel: To the Bedford soccer teams, who each downed Dover 3-0 on Friday when Shayna Sails had a goal and two assists and Graham Reynolds scored twice.

Sports 101 Answer: The NFL fumbles leader is also the interception leader, Brett Favre, with 166.

On This Day – Oct. 25 in 1964: In one of the strangest plays in football history, second-string 49er QB George Mira hits third-string QB and part-time halfback Billy Kilmer downfield, who then fumbles as hustling Minnesota Viking end Jim Marshall arrives to scoop it up and run for a 66-yard TD. Only problem, he never turned around and actually ran to the 49ers end zone for a safety instead!

But Minny still won 27-22 with the winning score ironically coming when Carl Eller scored a defensive TD off a fumble forced by Marshall.

(Alaska) in icing Windham in the Astros’ 2-1 win.

14 – wins against just one loss for Bow after a 2-1 win over Hanover when Lauren Goyette had the first score and Miah Munro the gamewinner that came in the final two minutes.

85 – points scored in the Central and Concord affair won by the Green 51-34.

Alex Hawkom passed for 247 yards and four TDs, Emmanuel Munyana ran for 130 yards and Cooper

Varano had 116 receiving on six catches, while Concord QB Zach Miles ran for 151 yards and passed for 161 more.

796 – yards in combined offense when Londonderry and Dover got together for a Friday slugfest when the Lancers moved into first place in Division I South with a 33-23 when Jeff Wiedenfeld led the stat parade by running for 178 yards and two TDs on 29 carries.

HALL OF FAMER

Where are they now?

PAT O’NEIL

He was a sports crazy kid who went to the Boys & Girls Club from age 8 through middle school to play, in no particular order, hockey – floor or air, basketball, pool, ping-pong and the miniature Indy 500 Car track. Even when he wasn’t playing, he kept the scorebook or ran the clock for the All-City Basketball League. Eventually it was on to Trinity High and UNH. Then, he followed the lead of the B&G Club staff he learned from to stay involved with kids as teacher and coach for the last 35 years. Today, it’s teaching English as a Second Language at Hillside Middle School to students who’ve come to the city from all over the world.

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... I didn’t go every day, but when I did I couldn’t wait to get there. People on the staff like Dick Jarvis, Kenny LaPointe and Brian Tremblay — were so great...

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Sports Glossary

Jim Marshall: Tough guy should be Hall of Fame Minnesota Viking defensive end who never missed a game in 18 years playing for Minnesota’s famed Purple People Eaters defense. Went to four Super Bowls and two Pro Bowls, recorded 127 career sacks, and recovered a record 30 fumbles while playing in a then record 282 consecutive games.

Billy Kilmer: Pot-bellied “Wobble and Win” QB with George Allen’s Politically IncoRectskins of the early to mid-1970s known for the less than perfect spirals he threw. Weirdly he started as an All-American tailback at UCLA before entering the NFL as a QB/running back combo as San Francisco pioneered the shotgun formation. Badly breaking his leg driving his car into San Francisco Bay after falling asleep at the wheel led to becoming just a QB with the expansion New Orleans Saints, before later, ah, landing (again) in D.C. Enos Slaughter: Scrappy St. Louis Cardinal and Yankee Hall of Fame outfielder from North Carolina, known as “Country.” Most famous for running through the hold sign at third base on a Harry Walker single to left before scoring the winning run in Game 7 of the 1946 World Series. Unless it’s for being the guy to purposely gash Jackie Robinson’s leg with his spikes on the play at first depicted in a big scene in the major Hollywood motion picture 49. Robinson later tagged him on the mouth with the ball on a play at second base that knocked out a few teeth.

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t r e s Des in a glass

s t a e r t p u n w o r g e s e h t The tricks to making

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By Angie Sykeny

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While the kids are enjoying their Halloween candy, grown-ups can indulge in a different kind of sweet treat. From candy corn martinis to pumpkin pie-infused cocktails, local bartenders are mixing up some tasty dessert drinks with all of the flavors of fall. Here are some of the drinks you’ll find, plus some tips on how to make your own decadent adult beverages.

Pumpkin & ...

One drink that you’ll see on nearly every restaurant and bar cocktail list this time of year is the pumpkin martini, or some variation of it.

Firefly American Bistro & Bar in Manchester makes a pumpkin spice martini with vanilla vodka and a pumpkin mix, made with canned pumpkin, molasses, brown sugar and spices like cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger.

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er at Firefly. “It has all those flavors that are great this time of year.”

The pumpkin martini at Bar One in Milford is a creamy blend of vanilla vodka, Kahlua, pumpkin Bailey’s, and Godiva white and milk chocolate liqueurs.

If you prefer a drink that’s less sweet, but still full of those fall flavors, try a drink that goes heavier on the flavored vodka, whiskey or other liquor, and lighter on the liqueurs.

“Most dessert liqueurs are so sweet, already. It’s easy to go over the top,” Jillian Bernat, head bartender at Bar One, said. “A flavored vodka is good because it adds flavor but dulls down the sweetness a little bit.”

If you don’t want to give up the liqueurs, but still want to cut back on some of the sweetness, add some unflavored vodka, or, if the recipe calls for both liqueurs and flavored vodka with redundant flavors, substitute an unflavored vodka for the flavored.

“You definitely want to balance out the recipe,” Jones said. “It’s easy to get carried away with all the sweet liqueurs, but if you temper the drink with an unflavored vodka, you can go a little heavier on the liqueurs.”

Infusing fall

Though less sweet than the liqueurs, storebought flavored vodka can still be too sweet for some people, which is why a growing number of bars and restaurants are replacing it with house-infused vodka and tequila.

“Any flavored vodka is going to have sugar, but when you infuse the vodka, you’re left with just the flavors and not all the sugar,” Jones said.

The pumpkin martini at Cotton Restaurant in Manchester, for example, is made with vodka infused with sugar pumpkins that have been baked with cinnamon and nutmeg.

“By baking the pumpkin with the spices first and then infusing it for a couple of days, you’re getting all those nice fall flavors into it and giving it that yummy fall taste,” Cotton co-owner and mixologist Peaches Paige said.

Bar One does a cinnamon stick-infused tequila, which Bernat said goes great in fall drinks.

“It’s not sweet at all. It just tastes like tequila with the flavor of cinnamon,” she said. “It tastes a lot better than the flavored liquor that

you buy. Infused is always a lot fresher, and that’s why people love it.”

Infusing can easily be done at home; simply steep whatever you want to infuse in an unflavored vodka or tequila for a few days or more, depending on how strong you want the flavor to be, then shake and strain. Just make sure the thing that you’re infusing is big and solid enough to be strained; ground spices, for example, can’t be strained and will just make the vodka or tequila cloudy.

You can make a variant of the Candy Corn Martini at Granite Tapas & Cocktail Lounge in Hooksett, co-owner Matt Jordan said, if you want to get creative with infusions. “[You can make it with] Smirnoff Whipped Cream Vodka, but if you are really looking to up the candy corn quotient, you can steep plain vodka with actual candy corns,” he said.

If you want to add more flavor without adding more alcohol, try incorporating a simple syrup, which is also easy to make at home, Jordan said; mix equal parts sugar and water with whatever you want to extract flavor from and let it simmer for three minutes. For fall, do cinnamon and honey, a blend of fall spices

or even pumpkin (use a puree).

“It’s so simple to make your own specialized simple syrup,” Jordan said. “You can use it to really punch up all that fall flavor that you’re going for.”

A well-chosen garnish or rim can also complement the flavors of the drink while adding some Instagram-worthy flair to the presentation.

Sprinkling some spices on top, like ground nutmeg or cinnamon, works with a lot of fall drinks, especially frothy dessert drinks, said Brandon Laws, co-owner and bartender of In the MIX Beverage Catering, based in Nashua. Use a lighter colored spice on dark colored drinks and dark colored spices on lighter colored drinks to add some visual contrast. You can even drop in a whole cinnamon stick, or, for a brighter pop of color and added sweetness, some candy corn on a skewer.

“A garnish can be the most compelling part of the drink and its presentation and accentuate a lot of the flavors you’re working in,” Laws said. “Don’t be afraid to get creative with garnishes.”

Sugared glass rims are also a nice addition to dessert drinks. For fall, Laws recommends caramel or maple syrup dipped in cinnamon and sugar, brown sugar or graham crackers.

Classics at home

If you’re looking for a simple, no-frills fall dessert drink that you can make at home with just a couple of ingredients, there are plenty of options. The easiest is to start with a non-alcoholic drink — make it something seasonal, like eggnog or apple cider — and spike it with a shot or two of alcohol.

“A lot of these drinks [at bars and restaurants] have a lot of different ingredients, but you don’t have to go to the liquor store and buy six different things. I think it’s just as great to make a spiked hot chocolate or a spiked apple cider,” Jones said. “And with that kind of thing, anything goes, so you can use a wide range of liqueurs that you have in your house.”

For apple cider, try it hot or cold with a dark liquor, like a plain or spiced rum or a plain or flavored whiskey. Firefly serves a hot drink made with apple cider and vanilla bourbon, Jones said. Laws suggests using a maple whiskey or a cinnamon whiskey like Fireball. For something sweeter, he said, go with a vanilla or whipped cream vodka.

Dark liquors can also be used in eggnog, Paige said.

“The brown liquors like rye and bourbon have caramel and vanilla notes in them that go great with eggnog,” she said. “A flavored maple whiskey would go great with it, too.”

One of Cotton’s seasonal specials is a fig nog martini, made with eggnog and vodka infused with black figs.

“It’s great because you get that very strong fig flavor, but the creaminess of the eggnog balances it out,” she said. “It’s simple and can definitely be made at home.”

For an after-dinner drink that will warm you up, Laws said a pumpkin or cinnamon vodka or liqueur goes well in a hot chocolate, coffee or espresso.

“You’re taking a classic hot drink and just adding in that little bit of fall flavor,” he said.

Beer lovers can create a simple beertail (a cocktail made with beer) by spiking their

Have a drink Here are a few suggestions for sweet-treat fall drinks available at local restaurants and bars.

• Bar One (40 Nashua St., Milford, 249-5327, facebook.com/baronenh) has a Pumpkin Martini, an Apple Cinnamon Cider Margarita and a Pumpkin Mule made with pumpkin pie spiced maple syrup.

• Bedford Village Inn (2 Olde Bedford Way, Bedford, 472-2001, bedfordvillageinn.com) has a Chai Spiced Pumpkin Espresso Martini.

• Chez Vachon (136 Kelley St., Manchester, 625-9660, chezvachon.com) has a Candy Corn Shake, a milkshake made with vanilla ice cream, ground-up candy corn and candy corn concentrate, served with or without a shot of your choice of alcohol.

• Copper Door Restaurant (15 Leavy Drive, Bedford, 488-2677, copperdoorrestaurant.com) has The Great Pumpkin martini.

• Cotton Restaurant (75 Arms St., Manchester, 622-5488, cottonfood.com) has a Fig Nog Martini made with eggnog and black fig infused vodka, and a Pumpkin Martini.

• Firefly American Bistro & Bar (22 Concord St., Manchester, 935-9740, fireflynh.com) has a Pumpkin Spice Martini and a Milky Way Martini.

• Granite Tapas & Cocktail Lounge (1461 Hooksett Road, Suite A6, Hooksett, 232-1421,

find them on Facebook) has a Candy Corn Martini; a Caramel Apple Bellini; the Log Cabin, which is maple whiskey and maple liqueur with a maple sugar rim; and an apple cider Champagne drink.

• Hooked Seafood Restaurant (110 Hanover St., Manchester, 606-1189, hookedonignite.com) and Ignite Bar & Grille (100 Hanover St., Manchester, 644-0064, hookedonignite.com) have a Pumpkin Spice Latte Martini; Pick This, which is apple cider and salted caramel vodka; an Apple Cider Mimosa; a Maple Mule; and a Maple Manhattan.

• Murphy’s Taproom Bedford (393 Route 101, Bedford, 488-5975, murphystaproom.net) has a Pumpkin Spice Martini and an Apple Cider Margarita.

• Murphy’s Taproom Manchester (494 Elm St., Manchester, 644-3535, murphystaproom. net) has a Cinnamon Apple beer cocktail made with Angry Orchard Cider and Goldschlager; a Cinnful Cider beer cocktail made with Angry Orchard Cider and a shot of Fireball Whiskey; • New England’s Tap House Grille (1292 Hooksett Road, Hooksett, 782-5137, taphousenh. com) has a Maple Mudslide, a Honey Apple Sangria and the Bitchy Angel, which is caramel vodka and Angry Orchard Cider drizzled with caramel sauce.

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favorite pumpkin-flavored or fall seasonal beer with a half-shot of liquor. Make it something dessert-worthy like Kahlua or Bailey’s Irish Cream, vanilla or whipped cream vodka, a Godiva chocolate liqueur or a maple whiskey, Laws said.

“Halloween and fall are a great time to mix [liquor] with beer,” he said. “It’s delicious and very easy to do at home.”

The key to a good dessert drink, Jones said, is to model it after a real dessert.

“Just think about the desserts you look forward to this time of year, whether it’s apple pie, pumpkin pie or chocolate cake, and just build off those flavors,” she said.

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Play it safe

Although many of the aforementioned drinks are as sweet as a real dessert, it’s important not to underestimate their alcohol content, Laws said, particularly the cocktails you get at a restaurant or bar, which can have up to four or five kinds of alcohol. The beertail can be especially dangerous, because it is essentially two drinks in one.

“There is little or no difference between drinking a draft beer and chasing it with a shot or ordering a beer with a shot poured into it,” Laws said. “I’ve seen far too many patrons

Candy Corn Martini from Granite Tapas & Cocktail Lounge. Photo by Matt Ingersoll.

make the mistake of thinking they’re safely having two drinks, only to realize as soon as they stand up that they feel intoxicated.”

There are also a lot of variables when it comes to how alcohol will affect a person, such as the person’s weight, age and previous experience with drinking. If you are drinking at a bar or restaurant or at a party outside of your home and you plan to drive, a good rule of thumb is to stick to one drink.

“Plan accordingly,” Laws said. “When in doubt, just arrange for a ride with a sober driver before you head out in case you have a few too many. A $10 Uber is a much better option than a $5,000 DWI … and risking your life, or worse, someone else’s, should never be an option.”

Make your own Try these fall dessert drink recipes at home.

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Pumpkin Martini Courtesy of Bar One 1 ounce Stoli Vanilla Vodka 1 ounce Kahlua 1 ounce Pumpkin Bailey’s .5 ounce Godiva white chocolate Liqueur .5 ounce Godiva milk chocolate Liqueur

Add all ingredients to shaker filled with ice.

Shake vigorously, and strain into martini glass.

Milky Way Martini Courtesy of Firefly American Bistro & Bar 2.5 ounces caramel vodka .75 ounce Godiva White Chocolate Liqueur .75 ounce Godiva Milk Chocolate Liqueur .5 ounce butterscotch schnapps

Shake and strain into a martini glass. Sprinkle Add all ingredients to shaker filled with ice. pumpkin pie spice on top and swirl with a straw. Shake vigorously, and strain into a martini glass.

Caramel Apple Bellini Candy Corn Martini Courtesy of Granite Tapas & Cocktail Lounge Courtesy of Granite Tapas & Cocktail Lounge 4 ounces apple cider 2 ounces Stoli Salted Caramel Vodka Dash of cinnamon 1 teaspoon maple syrup 4 ounces Champagne or prosecco

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1.5 ounces Smirnoff Whipped Cream Vodka or vodka infused with candy corn (steep for a minimum of four hours, then strain) 3 ounces sour Mix 2 ounces pineapple juice .5 ounce grenadine Combine vodka, cider, cinnamon and maple Whipped cream syrup with ice in a cocktail shaker and shake vigorously. Strain mixture into a cinnamon To create a layered effect that looks like a candy sugar rimmed Champagne flute. Top with your corn: Combine vodka, sour mix and pineapfavorite Champagne or prosecco. Garnish with ple juice with ice in a cocktail shaker and shake a caramel dipped apple slice. vigorously. Strain mixture into martini glass.

Slowly add 1/2 ounce of grenadine down the Pumpkin Spice Martini side of the glass so it comes to rest at the botCourtesy of Firefly American Bistro & Bar tom of the glass. (Refrigerating your grenadine before adding it to your cocktail makes this pro2.5 ounces vanilla vodka cess much easier.) Top the cocktail with a layer .75 ounce triple sec of whipped cream, completely coating the mix1 ounce cream ture below. Garnish with a skewer of three 2 tablespoons pumpkin mix (canned pumpkin, candy corns. molasses, brown sugar and spices)

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THIS WEEK

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Tonight is Night at the BooZeum for grownups only at the Children’s Museum of New Hampshire (childrens-museum.org). In Nashua, the kids can get All Tricks, No Treats in the North Court at the Pheasant Lane Mall from 4:30 to 7 p.m. Halloween events abound this weekend through the big day next Wednesday, Oct. 31.

Find events for Halloween fans of all ages in our guide in last week’s paper. Head to hippopress. com and click on past issues. The story appears in the Oct. 18 issue and starts on page 16. Find trick-or-treat times on page 20, a guide to haunted houses starting on page 16 and a list of parties and special events for grown-ups seeking some Halloween nightlife on page 23.

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EAT: Zucchini & Maple Bread Also mini orange muffins, apple cinnamon scones with clotted cream, olive and nut tea sandwiches, gingered chicken salad tea sandwiches and more at the Harvest Afternoon Tea on Sunday, Oct. 28, from 1 to 3 p.m. at The Cozy Tea Cart (104 Route 13 in Brookline; thecozyteacart.com, 2499111). The cost is $34.95 per person; call for reservations.

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DRINK: Local brews The Millyard Museum (200 Bedford St. in Manchester; manchesterhistoric.org, 6227531) will hold an open house and beer and wine tasting on Thursday, Oct. 25, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Admission of $15 will allow you sips from Great North Aleworks, Martignetti Wines, Best Damn Brewing, Able Ebenezer Brewing Co. and more.

Need a break from all things spooky? Enjoy a little fasttalking romance at the New Hampshire Telephone Museum (One Depot St. in Warner; nhtelephonemuseum.org, 456-2234) with a screening of His Girl Friday, the classic 1940 movie starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell, tonight at 7 p.m. (doors open at 6:30 p.m.). Admission is by donation.

BE MERRY: In costume Join the downtown Nashua Halloween costume pub crawl on Saturday, Oct. 27 (register starting at noon, crawl starts at 2 p.m., according to the website). A $15 ticket gets you a pass for the pub crawl and for the after-party, which starts at 7 p.m. All participants must be 21+ and have valid ID. Ten bars and restaurants are participating with special themed menu items and trick-or-treat at some locations and the event will include a costume party. See ticketleap.com.

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UNH senior opens contemporary gallery

By Angie Sykeny

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Four years ago, Michael Valotto started painting every night as a way to decompress after a busy day of school and work. When he decided it was time to start sharing his art with the world, he was disappointed to find that there were few outlets for his abstract, contemporary style.

“I showed at coffee shops as much as I could, but you really need to be in some sort of gallery to establish yourself,” he said. “I looked, and there was just nothing there.”

Now a senior studying journalism at the University of New Hampshire, Valotto has finally found a place to show his work and the work of other artists who share his struggle. Earlier this month, he and his business partner, Lauren Moore, opened Bad Tree Fine Arts in downtown Newmarket, an art gallery that they hope will be “a catalyst for a renaissance of art” on the Seacoast, he said.

“We’re a New York-style gallery. We’re unconventional. We’re not about seagulls and sailboats. Our art has an edge to it, and I think the Seacoast is ready for that,” he said. “We want to be that entity that disrupts the established arts market here on the Seacoast.”

A membership gallery, Bad Tree is open to artists and artisans of any medium. The

Bad Tree Fine Arts. Courtesy photo.

600-square-foot-space can fit work by around nine 2-dimensional artists, plus another five or so artisans working with metal, pottery, jewelry and other crafts, Valotto said.

It currently features the work of four members: Jim Brown, a furniture maker from southern Maine who uses old and new materials to create one-of-a-kind pieces; Kyle Stockford, an experimental painter from Massachusetts who has been invited to create paintings for the Inside Out Art Museum in Beijing, China; Alonzo Clarke, a Newmarket-based watercolor painter who

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depicts scenes from his travels and observations of daily life; and Valotto, an abstract painter who works primarily with oils.

“My art is a representation of myself,” he said. “Lately, I’ve been taking a step back to take a more minimal, clean and focused approach to the way I paint, and I think that’s how my life has gone. It’s not chaos anymore. It’s more of a direct narrative at this point.”

Valotto said he hopes to also invite UNH students and faculty to independently showcase their work at the gallery.

“We represent the underdog, the little guy

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who’s overlooked, the younger artists, and the older artists who haven’t found a place to show their work,” Valotto said. “There is no right or wrong to what we can take on.

We just want people [for whom] art is their passion.”

Bad Tree is a place not only for visual arts, but also for performance arts and community events.

“Maybe, one night, there’s a small acoustic concert, or a charity event, or an art soiree,” Valotto said. “We don’t want this to be solely an art gallery. We want it to be a place for the community, where people can come together.”

Additionally, there are monthly art workshops open to the public, led by artists whose work is featured in the gallery that month.

“We don’t believe in the secrecy of art.

We like to teach people about art rather than keep all the secrets for ourselves,” Valotto said. “It’s cool that you can come to the gallery and learn from the individuals who created the art that you’re looking at.”

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Call 490-4321 or visit studioverne.com.

•​ Forest art: Epsom Public Library (1606 Dover Road, Epsom) has an exhibition, “From the Ground Up - A Forester’s View,” on view now through Nov. 10. It features the pen and ink, watercolor and colored pencil art by professional forester Ingeborg Seaboyer, inspired by her time spent working in the fields and forests of New England. Call 736-9920 or visit epsomlibrary.com.

•​ Photographing Canterbury: New Hampshire Art Association member Michael Sterling has a photography exhibition, “Images of Canterbury,” on display now through the end of October at the Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce (49 S. Main St., Suite 104, Concord).

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• MONADNOCK ART OPEN STUDIO PREVIEW EXHIBITION The exhibit will contain work by 50 regional artists participating in Monadnock Art’s 23rd annual Open Studio Art Tour. On view Oct. 3 through Oct. 28. Sharon Arts Center, 30 Grove St., Peterborough. Visit nhia.edu or call 623-0313.

• “THE CHI OF CLOUDS” Exhibition features oil cloudscapes by Daryl D. Johnson. On view through Oct. 28. Fry Fine Art, 36 Grove St., Peterborough.

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• “UNSETTLED WEATHER” Seascapes by Mark Johnson. On view during October. LaBelle Winery, 104 Congress St., Portsmouth. Visit labellewinerynh. com.

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with the village buildings, both inside and out, and the grounds,” he said in a press release. “Most of my work at the Village has been in black and white. However, for this exhibit, I chose to show some of the subtle colors of the buildings and interiors.”

Sterling is currently president of the New Hampshire Society of Photographic Artists.

Viewing hours at the Chamber are Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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•​ Exploring nature: Twiggs Gallery (254 King St., Boscawen) has an exhibition, “Intertwined: Nature, Chaos, Hope...,” on view now through Oct. 28, featuring four artists whose work explores the natural world. Tracy Hayes gives a behind-the-scenes view of nature winning over human chaos and suggests a vision of hope for a symbiotic relationship with all life. Gretchen Woodman’s art looks at the relationship between humans and animals. Victoria Hussey creates mixed media landscapes with an emphasis on organic forms and elemental forces. William Turner’s work portrays nature decomposing the man-made machine, crumbling industry into rust and moss. Visit twiggsgallery. wordpress.com or call 975-0015.

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Open calls • CALL TO ARTISTS Seeking art for holiday gift-giving show, “GOOD THINGS COME IN small PACKAGES”. Original small works of all media and all subjects are welcome. The show will run Nov. 9 through Dec. 23.

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• SCOTT SCHNEPF RECEPTION Solo exhibition features printmaking works, including landscapes, domestic interiors and still life arrangements. Thurs., Nov. 1, 5 to 7 p.m. Museum of Art at the University of New Hampshire, 30 Academic Way, Durham.

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•​ Down the rabbit hole: The Manchester Community Theatre Players perform Alice in Wonderland at the MCTP Theatre at the North End Montessori School (698 Beech St., Manchester) with showtimes on Friday, Oct. 26, and Saturday, Oct. 27, at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, Oct. 28, at 2 p.m. The musical, based on the story by Lewis Carroll, tells the magical tale of a young girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole and discovers Wonderland, a world with all kinds of quirky characters and adventures.

The production features a large cast, a live orchestra, lively dancing and many special effects. “I hope the audience will enjoy this production at any or all levels: as a visual art, a musical journey, an exploration of an outstanding literary piece or recollect their own personal journey ‘Down a Rabbit Hole,’” director Alan D. Kaplan said in a press release. Tickets cost $20 for adults, $18 for seniors and $10 for students. Visit manchestercommunitytheatre.com or call 800-838-3006.

•​ Theater company launch: Emerging New Hampshire-based theater company Cue Zero Theatre Company will host a launch party at the Derry Opera House (29 W. Broadway, Derry) on Sunday, Oct. 28, at 6 p.m., to celebrate its first full season.

At the party, the company will reveal the titles of two unannounced productions it has planned for 2018 and 2019, as well as information about some side projects, including staged readings, acting and writ• ALICE IN WONDERLAND The Manchester Community Theatre Players perform. Oct. 19 through Oct. 28, with showtimes on Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday at 2 p.m. North End Montessori School, 698 Beech St., Manchester. Tickets cost $20 for adults, $18 for seniors and $10 for students. Visit manchestercommunitytheatre.com.

• SPAMALOT The Palace Theatre presents. Oct. 19 through Nov. 10, with showtimes on Friday at 7:30 p.m., Saturday at 2 and 7:30 p.m., and Sunday at 2 p.m., and an additional show on Thursday, Nov. 8, at 7:30 p.m.

Palace Theatre, 80 Hanover St., Manchester. Tickets cost $25 for children ages 6 through 12 and $39 to $46 for adults. Visit palacetheatre.org.

• BASKERVILLE: A SHERLOCK HOLMES MYSTERY The Seacoast Repertory Theatre presents. Oct. 19 through Oct. 28. 125 Bow St. , Portsmouth.

The Manchester Community Theatre Players perform Alice in Wonderland. Courtesy photo.

ing workshops and members-only online content. Local artist Marjorie Boyer will present some of her poetry, and the company will perform a staged reading of one of her plays, and a preview of its seasonclosing musical Next to Normal, opening at the Hatbox Theatre in Concord in August 2019. Tickets for the party cost $15 at the door, cash or check only. Visit facebook. com/CZTheatre.

•​ Halloween burlesque: Central New Hampshire’s premiere cabaret troupe Absinthe and Opium Burlesque and Cabaret presents its Halloween show Lore at the Hatbox Theatre (270 Loudon Road, Concord) Thursday, Oct. 25, through Saturday, Oct. 27, at 7:30 p.m. The show takes the audience on a journey through traditional and not so traditional tales, ghost stories, urban legends and folklore, many of which are based in New England. A haunted carnival, a seductive serial killer, the Lizzie Borden murders and the Salem Witch Trials are all brought to life on stage through burlesque, songs, dancing and storytelling.

Tickets cost $17 for adults and $14 for students. The show is 18+. Visit hatboxnh.com or call 715-2315.

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Tickets cost $16 to $38. Visit seacoastrep.org or call 433-4472.

• LORE Absinthe and Opium Burlesque and Cabaret presents.

Thurs., Oct. 25, through Sat., Oct. 27, 7:30 p.m. Hatbox Theatre, 270 Loudon Road, Concord. Tickets cost $17 for adults and $14 for students. Visit hatboxnh.com.

Classical Music Events • PORTLAND CELLO PROJECT Alt-classical group presents an homage to Radiohead.

Fri., Oct. 26, at 8 p.m. Capitol Center for the Arts, 44 S. Main St., Concord. Tickets cost $28 to $45. Visit ccanh.com.

• “ARIAS AND APERITIVO” Opera New Hampshire presents an evening of live performance of arias from your favorite operas and an aperitivo, masquerade style. Fri., Oct. 26, 6 to 9 p.m.

Nashua Country Club, 25 Fairway St., Nashua. Tickets cost $40

to $50. Visit operanh.org.

• SIMPLY SIBELIUS The NH Philharmonic presents. Sat., Oct. 27, 7:30 p.m., and Sun., Oct. 28, 2 p.m. Seifert Performing Arts Center, 44 Geremonty Drive, Salem. $25 for adults, $20 for seniors and $8 for students. Visit nhphil.org.

• THE MUSIC OF JOHN WILLIAMS Symphony NH presents award-winning scores to Star Wars, Harry Potter, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Jurassic Park and more. Sat., Oct. 27, 7:30 p.m., in Nashua; Sun., Oct. 28, 3 p.m., in Concord. Keefe Center for the Arts, 117 Elm St., Nashua. Concord City Auditorium, 2 Prince St., Concord. $25 to $60. Visit symphonynh.org.

• RED PRIEST The British quartet performs the music of Vivaldi on period instruments.

Sat., Nov. 3, at 7:30 p.m. Concord City Auditorium, 2 Prince St., Concord. Visit concordcommunityconcerts.org.

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INSIDE/OUTSIDE Costumes, candy and community Merrimack hosts annual Halloween Party

There will be snacks available, including apples and cider, baked goods, hot dogs, candy, popcorn, cotton candy and popsicles, as well as some tasty activities like a marshmallow toss and cookie decorating.

Casparius said the whole community comes together “to make the event what it is.”

“The Parks and Rec Department only has two full-time employees, so we really rely on all of the community groups to make all the different activities possible,” he said.

“It’s a real gathering point for everyone, and a real community environment.”

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Bring the family for an evening of Halloween fun at the annual Merrimack Halloween Party on Friday, Oct. 26, at Wasserman Park. Now in its 26th year, the event features free games, activities and entertainment for all ages and is run by more than 20 community organizations.

“Last year, we had about 1,000 people in attendance,” said Matt Casparius, director of Merrimack Parks and Recreation, which hosts the event. “There are Halloween events at other towns, but ours is on a much bigger scale, and it gets a little bigger every year.”

The highlight of the party, Casparius said, is the costume contest, during which kids and families will “parade around to music” while judges look at the costumes.

The contest will be broken up into age groups: 0 to 4, 5 to 7, 8 and up, and family.

Within each group, judges will choose the winners in different categories, like “cutest” and “spookiest.” There will be awards for the winners, such as retail and restaurant gift cards, movie passes and more.

“A lot of kids participate in that,” Casparius said. “It’s always a big hit.”

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Children & Teens Children events • NOCTURNAL ADVENTURES Take part in a flashlight tour of the cattle barn and a scavenger hunt along the museum’s Binsack trail. Play glow-in-thedark games and use your “handson” knowledge to guess what’s in the mystery boxes. Sat., Oct. 27, 5 to 8 p.m. Remick Country Doctor Museum & Farm, 58 Cleveland Hill Road, Tamworth.

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Pose for a pumpkin picture at Merrimack’s Halloween Party. Courtesy photo.

Other popular activities are the scavenger hunt, led by the Merrimack Lions Club, where kids follow clues that lead them to five trick-or-treat stations around the park; and the spooky walk, a decorated trail through the woods, led by local Girl Scout troops.

Get active with lawn games, bowling and an inflatable soccer field. There will be face painting, a storytime, a photo booth, coloring, crafts

and 700 miniature pumpkins for decorating.

For entertainment, there will be music provided by DJ Sam Walker, a magic show with magician Chris Herrick, a pumpkin carving demonstration by Dan Lamontagne, a robotics demonstration by the Merrimack High School FIRST Robotics Team and a screening of It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.

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$5 general admission, and free for kids ages 4 and under. Visit remickmuseum.org or call 3237591.

Manchester. $5 donation per family is encouraged (no registration required). Visit amoskeagfishways.org or call 626-3474.

Nature • SATURDAY NATURE SEEKERS: TURKEY VULTURES “Short and sweet” mini programs and fun nature-based activities.

Sat., Oct. 27; 11 a.m. to noon.

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Family fun for the weekend

Have candy at the ready

Some towns hold trick-or-treat in the days before Halloween; find your town’s designated candy day and more in our guide to Halloween events in the Oct. 18 issue of the Hippo. Go to hippopress.com and click on “past issues.”

Trick-or-treat times are listed on page 20. The story also features other kid-friendly fun, with not-so-spooky events starting on page 18 and haunted houses starting on page 16. (Parents looking to have their own Halloween-themed night out can check out the film and theater events on page 27 or the live music and Halloween parties starting on page 23.)

The boy who lived

See Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (PG, 2001) on the big screen at Chunky’s Cinema and Pub (707 Huse Road, Manchester, 206-3888; 150 Bridge St., Pelham, 6357499; 151 Coliseum Ave., Nashua, 880-8055, chunkys.com) on Saturday, Oct. 27, at 9 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. at all locations; 6 p.m. in Manchester and Nashua, and 6:30 p.m. in Pelham; and Sunday., Oct. 28, 9 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. at all locations, 1 p.m. in Manchester, and 1:30 p.m. in Nashua and Pelham. Admission costs $4. Costumes are encouraged and prizes will be awarded, and Butter Beer is on the menu.

Spooky storytime

Get in the Halloween spirit with a storytime featuring How to Scare a Ghost, the latest book from Jean Reagan (author of children’s books including How to Babysit a Grandpa), at area Barnes & Noble stores (1741 S. Willow St. in Manchester, 668-5557; 125 S. Broadway in Salem, 898-1930; 235 Daniel Webster Highway in Nashua, 888-0533; 45 Gosling Road in Newington, 422-7733). Storytime takes place on Saturday, Oct. 27, at 11 a.m.

Nashua’s annual Fright Night Festival returns to Greeley Park (100 Concord St.) on Friday, Oct. 26, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. The event features candy, costumes, a haunted maze, hayrides and more. Visit nashuanh.gov or call 589-3370.

Charmingfare Farm (774 High St., Candia) continues its Children’s Trick-or-Treat events on Saturday, Oct. 27, and Sunday, Oct. 28, during which six attractions will be available, including a horse-drawn hayride, a barnyard village stroll, a spooky hay barn, a tractor train bog ride, a crazy scarecrow corn maze, and pony rides. The cost is $22 per person and free for children under 2. Visit visitthefarm.com or call 483-5629 to pick an available time. Families with children ages 8 or older can check out the Harvest of Haunts at Charmingfare Farm Friday, Oct. 26, and Saturday, Oct. 27. Attendees must select a half-hour time slot to arrive when purchasing tickets, ranging from 6 to 8 p.m. depending on the day. General admission costs $29. Check out visitthefarm.com.

The Witch Way Fun Run on Saturday, Oct. 27, at 10 a.m. at Lurgio Middle School (47A Nashua Road, Bedford) offers active Halloween fun for families and kids of all ages. On the two-mile course, there will be a variety of Halloween-themed pit stops stocked with candy and prizes for you to visit. Also included will be face-painting, pumpkin-decorating, a costume contest, raffles and post-race snacks to enjoy.

Registration is $25. Visit sau25.net/ww5k.

Kids are invited to come to the Aviation Museum of New Hampshire (27 Navigator Road, Londonderry) in costume with their families on Saturday, Oct. 27, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., to compete for the “Golden Broomstick” award.

A panel of judges will give out the award to the participant wearing the most creative costume, and aviation-themed outfits are encouraged.

Halloween events at the museum start with a spooky storytime at 11 a.m.; then kids will get to enter the museum for trick-or-treating with the Ghosts of the Aviation Pioneers, who will explain their accomplishments and give out candy. Halloween craft activities will also be available. The cost is $5 per person. Visit aviationmuseumofnh.org or call 669-4820.

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For decades I’ve been planting spring-flowering bulbs. Some come back every year, some disappear after a few years, and some I treat as annuals. The result? Just when mud season is about to swallow me whole, I am rewarded with flowers to enjoy outdoors — and indoors in a vase. Now is the time to plant bulbs.

First, some basics: All bulbs should bloom fine the first year. To come back, most need sunshine and well-drained soil. Most little bulbs will do fine in part shade.

I treat tulips as annuals, even in the best of circumstances. Not only that, squirrels will watch you plant them, and then get right to work digging them up as soon as you settle into a chair with a cup of tea. Deer will eat the blossoms, come spring. Daffodils are a better bet.

At the end of Bill Clinton’s term I got to interview the White House gardener, Dale Haney. He told me that they plant thousands of tulips each year on the White House grounds. I noticed lots of big, fat gray squirrels that seemed quite fearless, so I asked him how they kept them from eating the tulips.

The trick, he said, is to plant masses together, and then spread chicken wire over the bed before you finish filling the hole with soil.

Lay out the wire mesh an inch or two beneath the soil. That way a pesky squirrel will run into a barrier. And somehow, the tulip buds will find their way through the holes.

If you do that, and I have, make rectangular beds roughly the width of your chicken wire. I first tried a circular planting, and cut the chicken wire — which turns into something like razor wire when you cut it. I should have worn elbow-high leather gloves! I have decided it’s not worth the bother.

The other remedy, Mr. Haney suggested, is to feed the squirrels. A fat squirrel is a lazy squirrel, he said, so feed them lots of corn. Your tax dollars do that at the White House. Huh. Daffodils are generally long-lived. They are mildly poisonous, so rodents don’t eat them. And although daffodils will bloom in shady or half-shade places, they really do a whole lot better in full sun, with good drainage. No bulbs want to grow under pine trees or other evergreens.

The best way to plant bulbs is to dig a big hole and plant a lot of bulbs all at once. For daffodils or tulips, dig a hole 6 to 8 inches deep, 24 inches wide to 36 inches long. Have a wheelbarrow or tarp to place the soil on, so you don’t make a mess on the lawn to clean up.

Add an inch or more of compost, and then sprinkle some bulb booster or organic fertilizer in the bottom of the hole. Loosen the soil in the bottom of the hole with a hand tool, mixing the fertilizer and compost with the soil.

Tulips are ephemeral, but worth trying.

Next, arrange the bulbs in the hole. Plant them pointy end up.

I like a mass of blossoms, so I plant bulbs close together. I read the directions for the bulb variety I am planting, and then plant them a little closer together. Pay attention to planting depth, too. Smaller bulbs like crocus need much less depth than big fat daffodils.

Most bulb plants reproduce by growing offsets, or little bulbs that develop alongside the mother bulb. After a year or two, the offsets will bloom, too, and you can dig up the bulbs and divide them after blooming if you want. I never have done that, but I remember my parents did when I was a boy.

What else should you try planting? Snowdrops bloom in early March for me and are a must. Start with 50 bulbs — they are not very dramatic in a small clump. They do drop seeds and will show up downhill from where you plant them in a few years.

Glory-of-the-snow is nearly as early as snowdrops, but instead of white, these are purple or blue or even pink. And they look up, not down like snowdrops, so you can see their petals and interior better. Scilla, another favorite of mine, are a deep purple, and look down. Small, but intense.

Last year I planted several Camassia, a late-spring or early summer blooming bulb plant. They were wonderful! Each plant produces a few flower spikes that are 2 or 3 feet tall, and are covered with blue or purple florets. Very dramatic! They are hardy to Zone 4.

Unlike most bulb plants, they do well in wet or moist soils in winter.

Alliums are in the onion family, are wonderful, and are not bothered by rodents. Some are huge, with balls nearly a foot wide that are airy and open, filled with little florets. The big ones can be expensive ($4 a bulb or more) but last a long time and are very dramatic. Even a half a dozen big ones will make a statement.

So get off the couch, get outside and plant some bulbs. Do so, and come spring you’ll be sending me an email saying how glad you are that you did! h Henry by email at henry.homeyer@ comcast.net. He is the author of four gardening books and is a lifetime UNH Master Gardener.

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Dear Donna, I have Copeland Garrett tea cups and saucers, gold gilded and very ornate. Do you have any idea on value of these? I have six large tea cups, five small tea cups and six saucers.

Elise Dear Elise, Your tea cups and saucers are very pretty. They are all hand painted, with a thin line of gold added. They have a mark of Copeland Garrett, but there are so many different marks it can be tough to find the exact marks. But yours is out there and I found information for you.

Copeland Garrett was a partnership between Copeland wares and Garrett, producing porcelain, earthenware and stoneware. It only lasted for 14 years, from 1833 to 1847. Then it returned back to Copeland again until the 1970s.

As far as a value, I can share with you that with any dish sets the most unusual pieces tend to have the higher value. Common ones like tea cups and saucers bring in much less. The ones that I can compare them to are in the range of $15 each.

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‘Fake’ gears create confusion for Civic hatchback driver Dear Car Talk: The automatic transmission in my 2018 Honda Civic hatchback doesn’t slow me down if I shift down to second gear.

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By Ray Magliozzi going down hills, but it doesn’t seem to hold the speed down like my old ‘05 Civic did. Is the new transmission not made to do that? — Kevin Your new Civic has a totally different type of transmission, Kevin. The 2018 Civic comes with a continuously variable transmission (CVT) that has no actual gears. It’s designed with a steel mesh belt that slides up and down two metal cones to find the best possible gear ratio at any given moment (you can find some good videos of how this thing works on YouTube). That maximizes fuel economy.

You’ve probably noticed that sometimes, when you accelerate, the engine speed goes up at first, then slowly comes down, even as the car goes faster. That’s the CVT adjusting as you need less power. But because people have been driving “fixed gear” automatic transmissions

since the Truman administration, lots of manufacturers use the transmission computer in the CVT to create “fake” gears.

Some Civics with CVTs even come with paddle shifters that — when you toggle them — take the CVT to six or seven preset ratios to mimic the feel of an older car.

Based on this thinking, Kevin, you can expect your future electric car to play a recording of your 1978 Cutlass from a phony tailpipe. Anyway, when you move the shift lever to “L” (into what you think is “second gear”), you’re just moving the CVT to a preset ratio that Honda selected. And it’s probably a different ratio from the actual second gear in your 2005 Honda.

If you have paddle shifters on your new Civic, you can obviously drop down to the next lowest preset ratio, which will provide more engine braking. But if your only choices are “drive” and “low,” you’ll have to accept the gear ratio that Honda has deemed you worthy of, and supplement with your brakes.

Dear Car Talk: I have a steering problem with my 2015 Ford Fusion. I’ve had the alignment checked. I got new tires. I had a

Ford dealership look it over, and they said the front end is nice and tight (all they did was tell me to get the new tires).

My problem: The car darts to the left or right on its own.

I continuously have to correct for these changes in direction. It happens on any kind of pavement, but more so on uneven pavement. If I start to steer into a curve, the car wants to steer tighter into the curve by itself. I ease up, re-engage the curve, and the car does it again. Very weird. Any thoughts? — Rick Well, there’s been no shortage of steering complaints about this car. There was a problem where the steering wheel fastener would come loose and cause the steering wheel to come loose and even come off in your hands. How’s that for a little wake-me-up?

So I would certainly ask your dealer to check for that specific problem. If the steering wheel in your hands is not bolted tightly to the wheels, that could produce the abrupt changes in direction you describe. Although you’d experience it continuously. All the time.

There also was a recall to fix the steering gear motor’s mounting bolts, which tended to corrode, leading to a loss of

power steering. If you came into our shop and complained about this problem, after I verified that your tires weren’t severely overinflated, the next thing I’d suspect would be an alignment issue.

If you hit a big pothole or curbstone, and bent a tie-rod end, or a strut (or if your 16-year-old nephew did when you lent him the car), you could knock your caster off, which definitely would cause squirrely handling. But you say you’ve had the alignment checked. And a caster problem, if you have one, should have turned up. So the next step is to convince the dealer to take your complaint more seriously.

If you can find a road in the general vicinity of the dealership where the car will reliably misbehave, take the service manager for a ride. Have him drive and experience the problem. Once he experiences the problem himself, and sees his own life and pleasure boat flash before his eyes, I think he’ll be more open to looking harder for the cause.

If he’s at a loss, suggest that the steering rack is the next thing to investigate.

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… We also carry a Massachusetts Hoisting Engineers License … a rigger certification, certified signalman [license], OSHA [10-Hour Training Program] and also a valid medical examination card form our primary care physician. We run through a barrage of tests to make sure we’re fit for duty for the type of work we do.

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I manage operations, but I’m still actively a crane operator … as well as filling in anywhere needed, which may be driving counterweights, [or being] a certified signal man [or a] rigger. I also do all estimating.

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Initially, I was working for my uncle’s roofing company right in Manchester while I went to [Plymouth State University]. … During school breaks and summers I worked for

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my uncle … from the day after my graduation from high school until one year after college. … If we couldn’t reach certain buildings, we would hire American Crane. … I had experience with small cranes … and it was intriguing to see when we subbed out with larger cranes how the scale changes so much and how precise these guys were.

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• Moonlight Meadery gets USDA certified: The African Blossom Mead produced at Moonlight Meadery in Londonderry recently received official USDA organic certification, making the establishment the first winery in the Granite State to receive such recognition, according to a press release. The mead uses certified organic honey from Zambia and Brazil.

“We are proud to have one of our meads now USDA certified organic by the New Hampshire Department of Agriculture, Market & Food … [and] we have more of our meads undergoing the certification process over the next few months,” Moonlight Meadery founder and meadmaker Michael Fairbrother said in a statement. According to the release, plans are in the works for Moonlight Meadery to kick off releasing beer made with honey later this fall. Visit moonlightmeadery.com.

• Wine and dine: Get your tickets now for the High Hopes Foundation of New Hampshire’s annual Fall Food & Wine Festival, to be held at LaBelle Winery (345 Route 101, Amherst) on Friday, Nov. 2, from 6 to 9 p.m. Taste and experience international and domestic wines, plus specialty food products hand-picked by the owners of Cava De Vino in Nashua, like gourmet pastas, caramel, hot fudge, mustards, spicy ketchups, relishes and chutneys, infused maple syrups and more. There will also be a pasta and carving station, passed hors d’oeuvres, live music and raffles. Tickets to the 21+-only event are $50, with 100 percent of the proceeds going toward the High Hopes Foundation of New Hampshire. All ticket holders will also receive a commemorative 12-ounce wine glass to be used at the event. Visit highhopesfoundation.org.

• The Village Cafe opens in Bradford: The Village Cafe held its grand opening at 11 W. Main St. in Bradford on Oct. 13, according to its Facebook page. The cafe serves breakfast from 7 to 11:30 a.m. and lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., with options like breakfast sandwiches, omelets, baked goods, oatmeal with blackberries and apples, a breakfast parfait, soups, sandwiches and more. Call 938-2223 or find them on Facebook for more details.

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Born out of the success of New Hampshire Wine Week in January, a new celebratory week with distilled spirits is being introduced for the first time, bringing hundreds of distillers and brand ambassadors to the Granite State from around the world.

The first annual New Hampshire Distiller’s Week, to be held from Oct. 29 to Nov. 2, is also building on the growing popularity of the annual Distiller’s Showcase of Premium Spirits. Returning for its sixth year on Thursday, Nov. 1, at the Manchester Downtown Hotel, the Showcase is an opportunity to taste some of the world’s most renowned whiskies, tequilas, vodkas and rums under one roof alongside appetizers and entrees.

In addition to the Showcase, New Hampshire Distiller’s Week is also going to include a live cocktail and mocktail competition, an alreadysold-out Pappy Van Winkle tasting dinner, a guided tasting event called Whiskeys of the World and dozens of statewide spirit tastings and bottle signings throughout the week at New Hampshire Liquor & Wine Outlet stores.

“Our vision was … to get some of the master distillers from all of these brands to see the value in coming to New Hampshire and talking with consumers and just educating people about their brands,” said Mark Roy, spirits and marketing specialist for the New Hampshire Liquor Commission.

The Showcase

Roy said the idea of having a spirit tasting event came after he attended the Winter Wine Spectacular; from that idea came the Distiller’s Showcase, which has quickly grown to one of the largest singular tasting events for spirits on the East Coast and is continuing to expand. This is the first year it will be held in the Expo Center of the hotel, allowing more space for table vendors and walking traffic.

People are given a program booklet with a full map of the more than 140 tables of spirits that will be featured, each of which is numbered, explaining which products are at each table. There will be a wide variety of spirits represented, including whiskey, tequila, vodka, rum, Scotch, gin, cordials and liqueurs.

“It’s a great opportunity to sample products that you would have never otherwise tried,” Roy said.

“I strongly recommend that people go in with a game plan and that you don’t try and hit every table.”

Some distillers and brand ambassadors are local while others come from all over the world to present some of their best products, and there are also opportunities to meet with the distillers.

For the first time this year, each table will be featuring a signature cocktail for attendees to try as they visit.

“We had … suggested that each table have a signature drink over the past couple of years, just

because it’s usually a little bit more enjoyable for the novice person, so this year it was a requirement,” Roy said. “So for instance, the Sazerac Co. will be offering green tea and Irish whiskey coffees. Infuse Spirits will be offering an old-fashioned sassafras … and then we’ve got a pumpkin spice sangria from Martignetti. So there are a ton of interesting drinks to try.”

Also new to this year’s Showcase will be the addition of six themed “suites,” or designated areas to promote special products. Among them will be a Louisiana speakeasy-style decoration by Southern Comfort, a barbershop area to promote men’s health, and even a New Hampshire Made section featuring spirits produced in the Granite State.

The luxury of new additional space will also feature expanded offerings of some of the restaurants, according to Roy. Local eateries like The Common Man, Campo Enoteca, Republic Cafe, Fratello’s Italian Grille, Canoe Restaurant and Tavern, The Bedford Village Inn and Tuscan Kitchen will all be in attendance.

“Even if you’re not a big spirits drinker, there’s a lot of opportunity to enjoy some great food, appetizers, non-alcoholic drinks, things like that,” he said.

As during previous years, the Liquor Commission has developed a mobile-ordering app for people interested in buying spirits onsite at a 10-percent discount. They will then be able to pick it up at any of the 79 New Hampshire Liquor & Wine Outlet stores.

A portion of the proceeds from the Showcase benefits the Animal Rescue League of New Hampshire.

Other featured events

New Hampshire Distiller’s Week will also include a full schedule of several special events held across the state, some that have been held in the past and some completely new, according to Roy. On Monday, Oct. 29, the New Hampshire Liquor & Wine Outlet store in the Willow Springs Plaza on Daniel Webster Highway in Nashua will host a live cocktail and mocktail competition.

Three mixologists and three consumer finalists will each be creating a cocktail and a mocktail, with one winner picked from each category by a panel of judges. Winners receive a $500 cash prize in addition to special Jack Daniel’s merchandise.

On Tuesday, Oct. 30, The Crown Tavern in Manchester will host the exclusive, sold-out Pappy Van Winkle Dinner, a five-course meal with paired samples from Pappy Van Winkle’s line of bourbons.

A new event will be the Whiskeys of the World guided tasting and panel discussion, set to take place on Wednesday, Oct. 31, at the Manchester Country Club in Bedford. Roy said the event will begin with a cocktail reception hour, followed by a sit-down seminar educational question-andanswer period with five brand ambassadors.

“We’re representing pretty much the gamut,

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from Canadian whiskey to American bourbon to Scotch and Irish whiskey,” Roy said.

One of the panelists is Eric “ET” Tecosky, the U.S. Brand Ambassador for Jack Daniel’s, among the top-selling whiskeys in the world that dates back to the mid-1800s in Lynchburg, Tenn.

Tecosky, who will also be appearing at the Showcase on Thursday and at a special Jack Daniel’s whiskey dinner at New England’s Tap House Grille in Hooksett on Tuesday, Oct. 30, said he views each event as a way to educate people about different whiskeys.

“Whiskey can be a confusing category, so these panels are really great for people to learn about say, Canadian whiskey versus American whiskey versus Irish whiskey when they order a drink at a bar,” Tecosky said. “It’s also really fun to be there with a bunch of representatives from other whiskeys, to just hear different stories.”

Finally, several select Liquor & Wine Outlet store locations across the state will be hosting tastings and bottle signings featuring appearances with each product’s brand ambassadors. Those events are not ticketed, so Roy said they serve as great opportunities to have one-on-one discussions with purveyors of your favorite spirits.

“One of the big questions I know we get in the retail stores is, what do I do with this product or how do I use it,” Roy said. “So, these in-store events are perfect … to educate consumers on how to use these products and mix cocktails, and how to use them responsibly.”

New Hampshire Distiller’s Week Monday, Oct. 29, through Friday, Nov. 2. Visit nhdistillersweek.com for the most up-to-date information and updated events.

6th annual Distiller’s Showcase of Premium Spirits When: Thursday, Nov. 1, 6 to 8:30 p.m.

Where: Manchester Downtown Hotel, 700 Elm St. Cost: $60 per person Visit: distillersshowcase.com

New Hampshire Distiller’s Week Bottle Signings & Spirit Tastings • FLAG HILL DISTILLERY & WINERY Brian Ferguson, head distiller and owner of Flag Hill Distillery & Winery, will host this tasting.

Since his time at Flag Hill, he has introduced new products that include rums and whiskeys.

Sat., Oct. 27, 4 to 6 p.m. New Hampshire Liquor & Wine Outlet No. 33, 100 Bicentennial Drive, Manchester. Visit flaghill.com or call 659-2949.

• COCKTAIL & MOCKTAIL COMPETITION Three mixologists and three consumer finalists will each be creating a cocktail and a mocktail, with one winner picked from each category by a panel of judges. Winners receive a $500 cash prize in addition to special Jack Daniel’s merchandise. Mon., Oct. 29, 5:30 p.m. New Hampshire Liquor & Wine Outlet No. 50, 294 Daniel Webster Highway, Nashua. Open to the public; no tickets required.

• MAINE CRAFT DISTILLING M.S. Walker and Rachel Henry, brand ambassadors for Maine Craft Distilling, will host this tasting with chief distiller Luke Davidson, for items like the Blueshine Moonshine. Tues., Oct. 30, 5 to 7 p.m. New Hampshire Liquor & Wine Outlet No. 69, 25 Coliseum Ave., Nashua. Call 882-4670.

• OLD ELK DISTILLERY Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits along with Greg Metze, master distiller of Old Elk Distillery in Fort Collins, Colorado, will be hosting this tasting of its blended straight bourbon whiskey. Tues., Oct. 30, 5 to 7 p.m. New Hampshire Liquor & Wine Outlet No. 50, 294 Daniel Webster Highway, Nashua. Call 888-0271.

• FLAG HILL DISTILLERY & WINERY Brian Ferguson, head distiller and owner of Flag Hill Distillery & Winery, will host this tasting.

Since his time at Flag Hill, Ferguson has introduced new products which include rums and whiskeys. Tues., Oct. 30, 5 to 7 p.m. New Hampshire Liquor & Wine Outlet No. 1, 80 Storrs St., Concord. Call 224-5910.

• DJINN SPIRITS Djinn Spirits owner, engineer and head distiller Andy Harthcock will guide participants through this two-hour event, which will include a multimedia presentation, a facility tour and a tasting of several award-winning products. Tues., Oct. 30, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

Djinn Spirits, 2 Townsend West, No. 9, Nashua. $40. Visit djinnspirits.com or call 262-1812.

• FOUR ROSES BOURBON M.S. Walker along with Jerusha Torres, brand ambassador for Four Roses Bourbon, will be hosting this tasting.

Tues., Oct. 30, 6 to 8 p.m. Castro’s Backroom, 972 Elm St., Manchester. Visit castros.com or call 606-7854.

• GRAND MAYAN TEQUILA M.S. Walker and Carlos Monsalve, owner of Grand Mayan Tequila, will be hosting this tasting. Wed., Oct. 31, 4 to 6 p.m. Barrio, 319 Vaughan St., Portsmouth. Call 380-9081.

• OLD ELK DISTILLERY Southern Glazer’s Wine and Spirits, along with Greg Metze, master distiller of Old Elk Distillery in Fort Collins, Colorado, will be hosting a tasting and signing bottles at this event. Wed., Oct. 31, 5 to 7 p.m. New Hampshire Liquor & Wine Outlet No. 34, 92 Cluff Crossing Road, No. 4, Salem. Call 898-5243.

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er along with Johnny Neill, owner and distiller with Whitley Neill Gins will be hosting this tasting. Wed., Oct. 31, 5 to 7 p.m. Canoe Restaurant and Tavern, 216 S. River Road, Bedford. Call 935-8070.

• FOUR ROSES BOURBON M.S. Walker with Jerusha Torres, brand ambassador for Four Roses Bourbon, will be hosting this tasting.

Wed., Oct. 31, 5 to 7 p.m. 815, 815 Elm St., Manchester. Call 782-8086.

• CALEDONIA SPIRITS Tasting will be with M.S. Walker and Ryan Christiansen, owner of Caledonia Spirits. Wed., Oct. 31, 6 to 9 p.m.

Revival Kitchen & Bar, 11 Depot St., Concord.

Visit revivalkitchennh.com or call 715-5723.

• WHISKEYS OF THE WORLD GUIDED TASTING & PANEL DISCUSSION The event will feature a panel of five brand ambassadors, plus light hors d’oeuvres, signature cocktails and a seminar-style tasting experience. Wed., Oct. 31; reception starts at 5:30 p.m. with passed hors d’oeuvres and samples of a signature cocktail from each brand ambassador. Seminar-styled tasting will start at 6 p.m. sharp. Manchester Country Club, 180 S. River Road, Bedford. $60.

• MAINE CRAFT DISTILLING M.S. Walker and Rachel Henry, brand ambassador for Maine Craft Distilling, will host this tasing with chief distiller Luke Davidson. Thurs., Nov. 1, noon to 2 p.m. New Hampshire Liquor & Wine Outlet No. 50, 294 Daniel Webster Highway, Nashua. Call 888-0271.

• LONG ISLAND SPIRITS M.S. Walker and Brandon Collins, head distiller of Long Island Spirits, will host this tasting. Thurs., Nov. 1, noon to 2 p.m. New Hampshire Liquor & Wine Outlet No. 4, 92 Cluff Crossing Road, No. 4, Salem. Call 898-5243.

• LONG ISLAND SPIRITS M.S. Walker and Brandon Collins, head distiller of Long Island Spirits, will host this tasting. Fri., Nov. 2, 1 to 3 p.m. New Hampshire Liquor & Wine Outlet No. 55, 9 Leavy Drive, Bedford. Call 471-0998.

• MAINE CRAFT DISTILLING M.S. Walker and Rachel Henry, brand ambassador of Maine Craft Distilling, will host this tasting. Fri., Nov. 2, 2 to 4 p.m. New Hampshire Liquor & Wine Outlet No. 79, 5 Brickyard Square, Epping.

Call 679-1799.

• FOUR ROSES BOURBON Jerusha Torres, brand ambassador for Four Roses Bourbon, along with M.S. Walker, will host this tasting.

Fri., Nov. 2, 4 to 6 p.m. New Hampshire Liquor & Wine Outlet No. 69, 25 Coliseum Ave., Nashua. Call 882-4670.

• LONG ISLAND SPIRITS M.S. Walker and Brandon Collins of Long Island Spirits will host this tasting. Fri., Nov. 2, 6 to 8 p.m. New Hampshire Liquor & Wine Outlet No. 69, 25 Coliseum Ave., Nashua. Call 882-4670.

Special Dinners • JACK DANIEL’S WHISKEY DINNER A three-course meal paired with signature Jack Daniel’s cocktails. Eric “ET” Tecosky, the U.S. Brand Ambassador for Jack Daniel’s, will be in attendance. Tues., Oct. 30, 6 to 8 p.m. New England’s Tap House Grille, 1292 Hooksett Road, Hooksett. $60. Visit taphousenh.com or call 782-5137.

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Probably chicken picatta and a nice glass What is the biggest food trend in New of wine. Pairing it with an IPA is pretty awesome too.

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After the success of last year’s first annual New Hampshire Octoberfest — a multi-day fall-themed food truck festival with a beer tent, live music and lawn games — McIntyre Ski Area is bringing it back with a new focus.

Now known as Mactoberfest, the twoday event will be held on Saturday, Oct. 27, and Sunday, Oct. 28, and will feature a variety of food trucks, a beer trailer with several craft brews on tap, lawn games, a costume contest, “Truck or Treating” and more.

“We’re aiming to do a little bit less than in the past and to make the festival overall a little more quaint,” said Shaley Bergeron, office manager of McIntyre Ski Area.

Admission on either day is $5, which grants visitors access to all of the food vendors, music and games. Foods will include everything from sausages, bratwurst, burgers and hot dogs to apple crisp, apple cider and cider donuts from Belgian Acres Farm. There will also be Mexican options from Empanada Dada, nitrogen ice cream from Rollin’ in the Dough Bakery and Cafe, and gyros, falafels and other Greek eats from Cravin’ Shallot.

Bergeron said that McIntyre is also working on providing food options and a signature drink of its own, to be determined by the first day of the festival.

In addition to the food, a beer trailer with at least five types of craft beers will be available, including the Fat Tire ale from New Belgium Brewing, the Scenic Session IPA from 603 Brewery in Londonderry, the Pumpkinhead ale from Shipyard Brewing Co., an Oktoberfest from the German Paulaner Brewery, and a

Helles style German lager from von Trapp Brewery in Stowe, Vermont. Bud Light, Citizen Cider and Lolailo red sangria will be available for purchase too.

A full schedule of live music on Saturday will feature the Eric Grant Band out of Gilford from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Milford singer-songwriter Brad Bosse from 2 to 4:30 p.m. and Jonny Friday of Manchester from 5 to 8 p.m. Concord musician Ryan Williamson will perform on Sunday, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

As with last year’s event, lawn games like cornhole and giant Jenga will be available for people to pick up and play along the grounds, Bergeron said.

A new feature to Mactoberfest to encourage the attendance of kids, there will be a Show and Shine and a Truck or Treat on Saturday, from 1 to 5 p.m., with the 603 Diesels community truck club.

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MUSIC, BOOKS, GAMES, COMICS, MOVIES, DVDS, TV AND MORE iVardensphere, Hesitation (Metropolis Records)

I think enough time has passed that I can go on a goth tip again, so what better way to go than to check out this Canadian — wow, six-piece — “industrial trance” crew, whose stomping, mechanized monstermashing vibe is a bit redundant, although it does try. The title track is government-issue Nine Inch Nails from way back, that spidery bloop-churning that soundtracked Se7en, and — well, not much else, come to think of it. But trance is the game on the bill, and they do bring the slow-climaxing, (sort of) fast, classic Armin van Buuren sweat to albumopener “Surface Tension,” which is fine. They sure love themselves some wub-wub though, as heard on “Red Sun Black” and “The Dark Deed,” at which point any nod to velvet-rope spazz-techno sort of flops and expires.

Were I them, I’d stick to the genre’s specifics, bag the Texas Chainsaw leather aprons, and add more layers. But c’est la vie. B — Eric W. Saeger Coheed and Cambria, The Unheavenly Creatures (Roadrunner Records)

There’s a dead zone in the heavy metal genre, populated by bands that don’t possess the anger or songwriting chops to compete with really heavy bands but don’t lean to the hairspray side (or whatever’s left of that). You’ve seen me make jokes about these guys; it’s because I lump them in with enthusiastic but eventually uninspiring bands like Queensryche (sorry). C&C fancy themselves as some sort of prog-rock/metal hybrid, and singer Claudio Sanchez imagines he’s the Geddy Lee for Generation YouTube, but frankly they’ve never done much for me. That doesn’t make anyone wrong, it just is what it is. Fans will probably dig this latest chapter in their sci-fi-centered “space opera” Amory Wars saga, and that’s fine with me, but to me it’s tedious. Sanchez’ delivery is more Weezer than Rush (do these guys all have to pass Taking Back Sunday karaoke tests before any record contracts get signed?), but what’s worse, the riffs are just fancy, aimless prog drivel until “Toys,” which finally delivers a little aggro carpet-bombing that’s indeed epic. But, you know, enjoy. B- — Eric W. Saeger

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PLAYLIST A seriously abridged compendium of recent and future CD releases •I told you guys it was Christmas now that it’s Halloween, I told you. The first unabashed holiday album to reach my radar is celebrity-jazz-fixture John Legend’s A Legendary Christmas, rolling out Oct. 26. This totally Stevie Wonder plays harmonica on an original tune, “What Christmas Means to Me,” while jazz bassist-diva Esperanza Spalding pitches in on a version of “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.” His 25-date tour will reach Boston’s Wang Center on Nov. 25.

• I have to admit — and this is always hard for me, if you can’t tell — I’m none too psyched for the new self-titled album from B.E.D., a collaboration between boring Shatner-wannabe, neo-French-café indie-meister Baxter Dury; annoying neo-French-café-lounge-diva Delilah Holliday and unlistenable French-café-Nintendo-DJ Etienne de Crécy. I don’t know why they “joined forces” nor do I care; my only goal here is to get through this segment without ralphing to death. That’s it. Before I proceed to YouTube to hear this disaffected, ridiculously postmodern train-wreck, I’ve made out my will; it’s in the cabinet next to the CDs that are marked for burning in piles.

OK, for the power and the glory, let’s trudge in there. Dang it, the search engine did indeed find a song, called “White Coats.” The only good thing about it is that it’s only two minutes long. This … this thing consists of a four-chord Super Mario keyboard line, a predictable fractal line, and a lot of bored-sounding singing from Dury and Holliday, both doing their usual shtick. This was even worse than I figured it’d be. Maybe people who smoke cigarettes through long elegant holders will pretend to like this. If you encounter such people, tell them to stop lying. Tell them they’ll never make Postal Service happen in the mainstream, not ever. This is really just, you know, haunting.

• Now that 1980s crazy person Boy George finally realized that everyone thought his solo albums were Culture Club albums, he’s reformed the band and called it Boy George And Culture Club! It’s sort of like when Jonathan Harris demanded to be billed as the “Special Guest Star” on the 1830s TV show Lost in Space, even though he was actually the main star on every episode, which everyone knew because he used a lot of alliteration when he flamed the robot, like “bumbling booby” and “ignominious ignoramus.” Life is the title of this BG&CC album, and the titular single is slow, bummer soul-chill, basically a ripoff of the Commodores’ “Night Shift.” No, there’s nothing important to be gleaned from this, you can go on to the next bit.

• Weird violinist lady Jessica Moss has been a long-timer with the Canadian post-rock band Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band. Entanglement is her newest solo record, which contains the bizarre “Fractals (Truth 4),” the sort of eerie, faraway, aimless bummer instrumental you hear when your favorite Game of Thrones character buys it, like really opulent but menacing stuff.

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If you’ve ever thought about writing a novel, there is no better time to do it than November: National Novel Writing Month.

Often referred to as NaNoWriMo, the online initiative challenges participants to write the first draft of a 50,000-word novel, or the first 50,000 words of a longer novel, between Nov. 1 and Nov. 30. More than 400,000 people worldwide are expected to sign up this year, according to a NaNoWriMo press release.

Yvette Couser, library director at Merrimack Public Library, has been the Municipal Liaison in New Hampshire for the last eight years. She facilitates New Hampshire’s regional page on the NaNoWriMo website, which includes a calendar of writing events, a list of writer-friendly libraries and bookstores and a forum where participants can talk about their experiences, share tips, find writing buddies and organize writer groups.

“It’s nice to be able to bring your laptop or notebook and go to a place that understands that people are coming in to write

and need a respectful and quiet space where they can be left alone,” Couser said. “Other times, people just want to get together to get away from writing, to talk about their projects and commiserate.”

Those who sign up for the challenge and create a free account on the NaNoWriMo website will also have access to various tools and writing aids, such as a graph that shows their word count progress, writing tips and pep talks from published authors, a “word sprint” timer that challenges them to write a certain number of words in a set amount of time, and a writing prompt generator to help with writer’s block, with prompts like, “Use as many puns as you can think of in your next chapter,” “Give a character or location a crazy, unpronounceable name,” and “Include the object directly to your left in the next scene.”

Everyone who writes 50,000 words or more and validates the word count on the website by the end of the month is considered a winner. Winners can receive prizes like free or discounted memberships and subscriptions to various writing software, self-publishing platforms and writing classes.

Friday, November 2Nd • 5:30 pm Abdi Nor Iftin

Abdi Nor Iftin presents the incredible true story of a boy living in war-torn Somalia who escapes to America-first by way of the movies; years later, through a miraculous green card, Call Me American: A Memoir.

Saturday, November 3rd • 2:00 pm Archer Mayor

Couser said 157 people were winners in New Hampshire last year, out of 717 people who signed up.

“I’ve been participating as a writer since 2007, and I’ve only reached 50,000 words about half of the time,” she said. “It’s hard.

You usually start out strong, but it gets harder toward the middle. Some people drop out. Other people say, ‘No, I’m going to figure this out.’”

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Write your novel NaNoWriMo New Hampshire Municipal Liai- the children,” Couser said. “You might even son Yvette Couser shares some tips for success. adjust your work hours or take a couple vacation days. Give yourself permission to ask for • Restructure your time. “Maybe you help and take this time for yourself.” decide to start getting up earlier. That time • Get out of the house. “If you’re feelyou spend sitting in front of the television ing distracted at home, get away from all after you come home from work? That’s the chores and laundry and go to a library or writing time now,” Couser said. “There are bookstore where you can focus on your writonly 24 hours in a day. Take control of how ing,” Couser said. you spend it and be disciplined.”

• Engage with other writers. “Partici• Tell your friends, family and work- pate in the online forums and chats, or check place. “Ask them to give you some space the forum to see where people are gathering. and time for the next month. Delegate chores Being able to learn from each other and ask and ask someone to make dinner or watch other people questions can give you encour-

agement and help you if you’re stuck.”

• Take advantage of the online tools.

“Log your word count each day. Check out the writing webinars and weekly pep talks.

Order a T-shirt or mug from the online store.

There are so many things online to help inspire and encourage you and give you incentive,” Couser said.

• Don’t get discouraged. “Understand that you’re going to have ups and downs, and remember that it’s just a first draft,” Couser said. “Even if you only get to 30,000 words, that’s still 30,000 words that you didn’t have before you took on the challenge.”

National Novel Writing Month Where: Worldwide When: Nov. 1 through Nov. 30 Cost: Free to participate Visit: nanowrimo.org “Come Write In” writer-friendly locations • Bedford Public Library, 3 Meetinghouse Road, Bedford, 472-2300, bedfordnh. org • Gibson’s Bookstore, 45 S. Main St., Concord, 224-0562, gibsonsbookstore.com • Griffin Free Public Library, 22 Hooksett Road, 483-5374, griffinfree.org • Jaffrey Public Library, 38 Main St.,

Archer is back!

Archer Mayor, author of the New York Times bestselling, Ver mont-based mystery series featuring detective Joe Gunther, is coming to Gibson’s Bookstore on November 3rd to read from and autograph his new novel, Bury the Lead. It never ends there, though, does it? We also expect a rollicking good time with Archer’s famously hilarious stories and Q&A.

Jaffrey, 532-7301, jaffreypubliclibrary.org • Merrimack Public Library, 470 Daniel Webster Highway, Merrimack, 4245021, merrimacklibrary.org • Nashua Public Library, 2 Court St., Nashua, 589-4610, nashualibrary.org • Portsmouth Public Library, 175 Parrott Ave., Portsmouth, 427-1540, cityofportsmouth.com/library • Wiggin Memorial Library, 10 Bunker Hill Ave., Stratham, 772-4346, wigginml. org • More locations TBA

Special events • Nashua NaNoWriMo Kick Off - Saturday, Oct. 27, 3 p.m., Nashua Public Library. Meet other writers and get excited about NaNoWriMo. Nevertheless Writers, a collaborative of five authors, will share their writing and publishing knowledge.

• Merrimack NaNoWriMo Kick Off Tuesday, Oct. 30, 7 to 8:30 p.m., Merrimack Public Library • Thank Goodness It’s Over - Saturday, Dec. 1, 3:30 p.m., Nashua Public Library.

Celebrate the end of NaNoWriMo, talk about the experience with other writers and read a brief except from your novel.

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Friday, November 23rd • 5:00 pm Jan Brett

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Sarah Smarsh says her life has been a bridge between two places: a hardscrabble childhood on the Kansas plains, and the privileged adulthood enjoyed by attractive, educated, white women with good jobs.

“Stretching your arms that far can be painful,” she writes in Heartland, a memoir about “working hard and being broke in the richest country on Earth.” It’s an indictment of income inequality, and also of the myriad cultural distinctions that separate the classes in a nation that believes its classes don’t exist.

A child of a wheat farmer and a teenage mother, Smarsh was part of what’s now known as the white working class, a population that she says is “willfully ignored,” its geography dismissed as “flyover country,” the home of people who don’t much matter to elites on the coasts.

“Wealthy white people, in particular, seemed to want to distance themselves from our place and our truth,” Smarsh writes. “Our struggles forced a question about America that many were not willing to face: If a person could go to work every day and still not be able to pay the bills and the reason wasn’t racism, what less articulated problem was afoot?”

Here is where denizens of talk shows dissolve into finger-pointing histrionics, and in descriptions of her extended family, Smarsh feeds that ravenous maw with candor. For starters, all the women who helped raise her had given birth in their teens; they smoked like chimneys, drank like sieves and cussed like sailors. They needed to: Most had abusive fathers, husbands or exes.

The women worked long hours at hard jobs; one of Smarsh’s grandmothers drilled screws into wood at a factory all day, then worked at a deli during the evening. After paying rent, utilities and child care, she had $27 left for gas, groceries and cigarettes.

For a while, her everyday sustenance was a candy bar for a lunch, and for dinner a frozen pot pie (five for a dollar).

Compared to her mother’s, Smarsh’s childhood was better. Her parents were married in a Catholic church — Jeannie at 17, Nick at 24 — and although Smarsh was an unexpected child, she grew up loved, if not by her unhappy mother, by her grandmothers and oft-absent dad.

In this way, there was a stability of love in her life, even as the family’s fortunes (such as they were) changed with the prairie wind.

That, it seems, is the defining characteristic of poor Kansas farmers — they have money for a while, then they don’t. At one point, Smarsh writes of having a cocker spaniel, Flintstone vitamins and a canopy bed.

A page later, she’s in another house, sharing a bed with her parents. At one point, the family is scratching like chickens in the sand for food to eat; Smarsh carries a paper bag to school while other children have fancy backpacks. But soon, they’re reaping a couple of thousand dollars in one evening when Smarsh’s father has the idea to set up a fireworks stand.

It’s the lack of money that shapes her family members’ lives, as evidenced by old letters she found in which money, or hardships from the lack of it, comprise most of the news: “Oh the car blowed out…. We don’t drive it all. We moved again now we have three bedroom apartment. $35.00 a week, it’s a hell of a lot better.”

The subtitle of the book — “being broke in the richest country on Earth” — suggests that the country itself is to blame, as if living in a rich country entitles its citizens to wealth. Not everyone believes that, and it’s unclear whether Smarsh does. But, she writes, the American Dream has a price tag attached, and the cost changes “depending on where you’re born and to whom, with what color skin and with how much money [is] in your parents’ bank account.”

Smarsh’s own escape from her family’s cycle of poverty seems to undercut the premise of a ruthless system in which hard workers get trapped. She got out because she willed it — she was conscious of the mess and determined to escape it, and not to introduce another child into the cycle.

This leads us to the peculiar construction of the book, which is written as a story told to a child that Smarsh has not had.

She names the child “August,” a name that conveys dignity and respect (and, coincidentally, a month of solvency for wheat farmers), and addresses the child at random places in the narrative. While the ending helps justify the construction, it’s mostly an irritant, the equivalent of listening in on a long conversation intended for someone else.

While this is ostensibly a book about poverty, it’s also a memoir about growing up on a farm, a lifestyle that, regardless of one’s profits, is physically and emotionally demanding, often dangerous, tedious and exhilarating in equal parts. Smarsh writes of being pulled on a hayrack around Halloween (accompanied by the ubiquitous “beer-sloshed” adults), of being dragged on a sled by a tractor in winter, noting that well-heeled suburbanites pay for these kinds of activities now.

It’s a testament to her skills as a writer that Smarsh makes working hard and being broke in the richest country on Earth something that doesn’t sound so bad after all.

B — Jennifer Graham

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•​ A look at love and Alzheimer’s: Manchester author Alison Downs presents her debut novel Ladybird Adrift at Bookery Manchester (844 Elm St., Manchester) on Saturday, Oct. 27, at 7 p.m. It tells the story of the love between a young woman, Claudia, and a man 30 years her senior, Victor, and their struggle with Victor’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis. Call 836-6600 or visit bookerymht.com.

•​ Discover new books: Gibson’s Bookstore (45 S. Main St., Concord) will host a New Book Discovery Night on Monday, Oct. 29, at 5:30 p.m. Publishing reps Megan Sullivan, Ann Kingman, Lesley Vasilio and John Muse will give the rundown on exciting new books set to be released in the coming months and some published books that you may not have discovered yet. Visit gibsonsbookstore.com or call 224-0562.

•​ Story of a retail empire: Author and historian Anthony Sammarco presents his new book, The History of Jordan Marsh: New England’s Largest Store, at the Wadleigh Memorial Library (49 Nashua St., Milford) on Tuesday, Oct. 30, at 6:30 p.m. The book explores the evolution of Jordan Marsh department store, from a single store opened in 1851 on Milk Street in Boston to becoming a New England icon and the largest department store chain in the nation by the 1970s. Visit wadleighlibrary.org or call 249-0645.

•​ Transform your life: Body and Brain Yoga studio presents an event for the book I’ve Decided to Live 120 Years: The Ancient Secret to Longevity, Vitality, and Life Transformation by Ilchi Lee at Barnes & Noble (125 S. Broadway, Route 28, Salem) on Saturday, Oct. 27, at noon.

The book discusses ways that people can radically rethink their ideas on aging, health, personal fulfillment and what’s possible in their lifetime, to live a longer and more fulfilling life. The event will feature aura readings, meditation techniques and inspiring stories. Call 898-1930 or visit barnesandnoble.com.

— Angie Sykeny

Books Author Events • MARGARET PORTER Author presents Beautiful Invention: A Novel of Hedy Lamarr Thurs., Oct. 25, 5:30 p.m. Gib-

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• DAN SZCZESNY Author presents The White Mountain: Rediscovering Mount Washing-

ton’s Hidden Culture. Tues., Oct. 30, 6:30 p.m. Meredith Public Library, 91 Main St., Meredith.

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• ANTHONY SAMMARCO Author presents The History of Jordan Marsh: New England’s Largest Store. Tues., Oct. 30, 6:30 p.m. Wadleigh Memorial Library, 49 Nashua St., Milford. Visit wadleighlibrary.org.

• ARCHER MAYOR Author presents Bury the Lead. Sat., Nov. 3, 2 p.m. Gibson’s Bookstore, 45 S. Main St., Concord. Visit gibsonsbookstore.com.

• SCOTT KELLY Astronaut and author presents Infinite Wonder: An Astronaut’s Photographs from a Year in Space. Sun., Nov. 4, 7 p.m. Music Hall Historic Theatre, 28 Chestnut St., Portsmouth. Tickets cost $13.75, and purchase of the book for $40 is required. Visit themusichall.org or call 436-2400.

Lectures & discussions • TEDXPHILLIPSEXETERACADEMY A TEDx event. Thurs., Oct. 25, 1 to 3 p.m. Phillips Exeter Academy, 20 Main St., Exeter.

Visit ted.com/tedx/events/27162.

Other • NEW BOOK DISCOVERY NIGHT Publishing reps Megan Sullivan, Ann Kingman, Lesley Vasilio and John Muse will give the rundown on exciting new books set to be released in the coming months and some published books that you may not have discovered yet. Mon., Oct. 29, 5:30 p.m. Gibson’s Bookstore, 45 S. Main St., Concord. Visit gibsonsbookstore.com or call 224-0562.

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Halloween (R)

Michael Myers spends another Oct. 31 briskly walking after his victims in Halloween, the 11th movie in the Halloween franchise.

Myers (played by Nick Castle, who did the breathing and was the original Myers, and James Jude Courtney, who did most of the physical stuff, according to Wikipedia; both men are listed in IMDb as just “The Shape,” a name that is actually creepier than the character himself) is about to be transferred from one prison to another because people never learn.

Before he’s moved, a pair of true crime podcasters (Rhian Rees, Jefferson Hall) come to talk to him (or, really, just talk at him because Michael never speaks or shows his face) and then go see Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis), the babysitter who survived Myers’ 1978 attack, who is equally uninterested in their project. (This sequence, which kind of feels like a little dig at true crime media culture, is the closest this movie gets to any kind of wider-culture commentary.)

Then comes the night of the big transfer, which, surprise, doesn’t go well. The next day — Halloween, of course — Laurie eventually convinces her grown daughter Karen (Judy Greer) and Karen’s jerk husband Ray (Toby Huss) to come to her extra-fortified house in the woods. But, naturally, Karen’s teen daughter Allyson (Andi Matichak) is out at a party not answering her cell phone. Will they get to Allyson in time? What will she find when she heads to the house where her friend (Virginia Gardner) is babysitting?

I got to thinking while watching this movie: after years of The Conjuring universe and your Get Out-type movies, how does Halloween stay relevant? What new spin or take can you put on a straightforward tale of a dude who stabs people? How is this movie going to subvert expectations or play with the formula? The answer: it’s not going to do those things. This is a movie about a guy in a mask briskly walking around and stabbing people. Most of those people are young women but men of varying ages get it too. You want stabbing, Halloween’s got stabbing. You want social commentary?

You want some kind of Laurie Strode revenge?

Halloween

You want humor or suspense or even the occasional jump scare not telegraphed from miles away? Halloween does not have these things.

Halloween has stabbing, original flavor only, one size fits all. You want quips, Venom is probably playing in the next theater.

I appreciated this movie’s retro feel. It is a slowed down brand of horror — and gory, but also in a way that mostly feels kind of old-fashioned, or at least pre-torture-porn.

I don’t know what I wanted from Halloween, I guess just “more.” Not more movie, you understand, because, though it is an hour and 46 minutes, one could shave a good 30 minutes before anyone would notice. More concept, maybe? More for actors to do than just scream? Definitely more Jamie Lee Curtis and Judy Greer. Each woman brought her own energy to the way her character dealt with an existential threat and I would have been interested in a movie that put them more at the center and gave them more to do.

I think mostly I wanted more fun – spooky fun, dark fun, revival fun, visual fun, whatever. More entertainment than just the game of figuring out how many of these people will make it to the sequel. C+ Rated R for horror violence and bloody images, language, brief drug use and nudity. Directed by David Gordon Green with a screenplay by David Gordon Green & Danny McBride & Jeff Fradley, Halloween is an

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The Old Man & the Gun (PG-13)

Robert Redford calls a wrap, reportedly, on his acting career with The Old Man & the Gun.

Set in the early 1980s, with fonts and colors that call to mind not just the early 1980s but the Redford-iest elements of the 1970s, this movie presents Forrest Tucker (Redford), a polite old man with a seldom seen gun who politely robs banks with the help of two fellow senior citizens, Teddy (Danny Glover) and Waller (Tom Waits).

His suit, his old-man geniality and his Robert Redford smile seem to bewilder his victims as much as his gun (or the threat of it) scares them.

Though “old man bank robber” would seem to be a memorable element of a crime, the low-key nature of the robberies means that this Over The Hill Gang, as police detective John Hunt (Casey Affleck) labels them, commits dozens of robberies before anyone puts together that they’re the same men.

Watching television reports of Hunt’s investigation bemusedly, Forrest also fills the time between robberies gently wooing Jewel (Sissy Spacek), a woman he meets when her car breaks down along his getaway route.

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to you in a regular-sized bag? That is this movie: one lonely donut hole of plot rolling around in a vast hour and 33 minutes of screen time.

IMDb reports that this movie was based on a New Yorker article by David Grann (which is now collected in a book called The Devil and Sherlock Holmes, which features other stories

by Grann, who also wrote Killers of the Flower Moon and The Lost City of Z). This feels right.

This movie is exactly a magazine-feature’s amount of information.

On the one hand, I give this movie credit for not milking Redford’s final performance for a two-plus-hour actory showcase (a-hem, Phantom Thread). On the other hand, not stretching itself to fill 150 minutes doesn’t mean that this movie’s 93 minutes isn’t already a stretch. I think we’re supposed to be contemplating life and all its different paths during what feel like long stretches of screen time spent just watching Hunt and his family hang out, Jewel and Tucker quietly flirt or some character staring out over the Texas landscape. That’s a lot of contemplating, a lot of “now, audience, you fill in this page with your own thoughts.”

Redford is fine, entertaining even though the movie does tip its nostalgia-heavy hand with its images and clips of him as a younger guy. Spacek is great if underused. Affleck is just sorta there, which might be exactly the right amount of Affleck for this movie even if it doesn’t feel like the movie always knows what to do with him. Elisabeth Moss shows up in a fun cameo, the existence of which is maybe a spoiler but I feel like it’s fair to mention because it happens in the second half of this movie and you’ll want to rewind the movie to catch it. And I say “rewind to catch it” because you will likely fall asleep when you watch this at home, possibly sometime in early 2019 trying to catch up on all the Oscar nominees.

But do watch it. The Old Man & the Gun isn’t a bad farewell, even though it feels more like a self-conscious farewell than a stand-alone story. B Rated PG-13 for brief strong language, according to the MPAA. Directed by David Lowery, who also wrote the screenplay, The Old Man & the Gun is an hour and 33 minutes long and is distributed by Twentieth Century Fox.

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• Place for bass: Get Halloweek started with an EDM showcase from The Rust Music, delivered through a state-of-the-art sound system and featuring visual stimulation from Actualize. Artists appearing include 5AM Trio with Tygris and ZONE Drums, Malakai bridging electronic and acoustic sounds, and Shapeshift, with special guests Maxfield and Wessanders.

Thursday, Oct. 25, 7 p.m., Jewel Music Venue, 61 Canal St., Manchester. Tickets are $10 at brownpapertickets.com.

• A cappella fella: A new album from Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox reimagines hits by Metallica, Sia, Ed Sheeran, Michael Jackson, David Bowie and others in his unique “gramophone music for a smartphone world” way. With close to a billion YouTube views, the viral sensation is, says Bradlee, “pop music in a time machine.” Saturday, Oct. 27, 8 p.m., Capitol Center for the Arts, 44 S. Main St., Concord. Tickets range from $34.50 to $149.50 at ccanh.com.

• Blues and ‘cue: Afternoons are reserved for local music at a Nashua barbecue joint, as Willie J. Laws plays the blues at an event dubbed Soulful Sunday.

Laws cut his teeth in Gulf Coast Texas before moving north a few years back. His fiery guitar-playing and soul-soaked vocals made him an immediate favorite in the region, with music that, as the old saying goes, sticks to your ribs. Sunday, Oct. 28, 3 p.m., Pig Tale Restaurant, 449 Amherst St., Nashua. See williejlawsband.com.

Most Halloween events are either geared toward children, for adults only. For the latter, that’s especially true when live music is on offer. What happens when mom and dad want to rock out and still show their kids a good time? An upcoming shindig at a Nashua bowling alley solves that problem, with a spooky show and costume party that’s suitable for the entire family.

Four bands perform, a couple with a decidedly ghoulish component to their music, playing on a stage decorated to look like an apocalyptic power plant. Beyond that, there are activities geared to all ages: fluorescent face painting, children’s crafts and candlepin bowling on glow-in-the-dark lanes festooned with haunted house flourishes. A costume contest offers prizes for best glow-in-the-dark get-up, most original and, for the imaginative, most awesome.

The event’s all ages focus is a happy accident.

For doom rockers Dead Harrison, Halloween is akin to St. Patrick’s Day for an Irish fiddler — it’s when they become their best selves. The trio began hosting costume galas in 2015, the first at a now-shuttered Chinese restaurant, followed the next year by a party at the Nashua Elks Club. Due to growing attendance, they booked a downtown nightclub for last year.

But the bar changed owners at the last minute, forcing the need for a new venue to be found. Dead Harrison drummer and singer Andre Dumont and band manager Eleanor Luna found themselves driving around Nashua, looking for the right spot to hold a spooky soiree. When Dumont told Luna to stop at Leda Lanes, she thought he was daft.

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loween-themed activities, enhanced by the presence of artists.

“We have it in the glow bowling section, and this year we’re trying to capitalize on that and make it really broad,” Luna said.

Chad Michael of What Box Creations will offer black light airbrushing.

“It’s very dark and haunting,” Luna said.

“He’s not metal or gothic himself, but his art is very beautiful and evocative.” Finally, Odin’s Eye Art will offer Nashua woodburner JJ Sawicki’s fantasy- and science fiction-inspired pyrography.

The event will also support Boston-based Black Cat Rescue.

“It’s a little-known fact that Halloween is dangerous for black cats,” Luna said. “I think they’re amazing creatures, and I knew of this organization through adopting one of my own. I thought it would be a great idea to invite people to donate to rescue these cats.”

Dead Harrison’s The Glowing Halloween Party When: Saturday, Oct. 27, 6 p.m.

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saw the whole thing, and the owners were cool with putting on a rock show.”

Attendance doubled from the previous event, and Luna realized something else.

“It is the only venue in town that will allow you to bring your kids, and listen to live music,” she said, noting that it fit with the band’s goal to set itself apart from the scene. “We want to get out of always having to perform at local clubs and bars, and do something where we can include everyone in the community.”

Another benefit occurred to her later.

“It’s a great event for people in recovery,” Luna said. “There are people who ... don’t want to go out to the bars, because they can’t — recovering alcoholics or drug addicts.

This party is much more that that.”

Along with Dead Harrison, which takes its cues from early Black Sabbath and goth rock bands like Type O Negative and Corrosion of Conformity, music at the show includes Victim of Circumstance, a vintage prog-rock band they met at the Merrimack Valley Battle of the Bands last summer.

“They’re excellent musicians, and their drummer is incidentally named Harrison,” Luna said, laughing.

Also on the bill is Keene trio Lobotomobile, another group well-suited for the occasion. Last year, they made a video for their song “Van Candy” that plays like a slasher movie, with a twist: the perpetrators are teenagers driving around in a panel van kidnapping adults with the promise of treats. It’s a lot of bloody fun.

“They’re a great horror rock band, and they’re at the Keene Pumpkin Festival a lot,” Luna said. “We’ve wanted to play with them for a long time.” Rounding out the show is Oziem, a Manchester trio that was a duo until adding female singer and bass player Faith Mandravelis recently.

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1. British rockers Wishbone __ 4. R Kelly ‘I Believe __ __ Fly’ (1,3) 8. Backstreet Boys hit ‘I Want __ __ Way’ (2,4) 14. ‘Whistle’ rapper __ Rida 15. The Color Red might get a ‘__ Throat’

16. ‘Hate My Life’ __ Of A Deadman 17. 20 seats come in one at show 18. Alanis Morissette ‘Under Rug Swept’ song not about a woman 19. Keep your foot pedals and cords in dresser one, perhaps 20. Stones & Beatles song ‘__ Man’

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Londonderry Coach Stop Tavern 176 Mammoth Rd 437-2022 Gilford Henniker Pipe Dream Brewing Patrick’s 40 Harvey Road 18 Weirs Road 293-0841 Country Spirit 262 Maple St. 428-7007 404-0751 Schuster’s Tavern Stumble Inn 680 Cherry Valley Road Pat’s Peak Sled Pub 24 Flander’s Road 20 Rockingham Road 293-2600 428-3245 432-3210 Goffstown Hillsborough Loudon Village Trestle Mama McDonough’s Hungry Buffalo 25 Main St. 497-8230 5 Depot St. 680-4148 58 New Hampshire 129 Tooky Mills 798-3737 Greenfield 9 Depot St. 464-6700 Riverhouse Cafe Turismo Manchester 4 Slip Road 547-8710 55 Henniker St. 680-4440 British Beer Company 1071 S. Willow St. Hampton 232-0677 Ashworth By The Sea Hooksett Asian Breeze Bungalow Bar & Grille 295 Ocean Blvd.

1328 Hooksett Rd 333 Valley St. 792-1110 926-6762 621-9298 Cafe la Reine Bernie’s Beach Bar 915 Elm St 232-0332 73 Ocean Blvd 926-5050 DC’s Tavern Central Ale House Boardwalk Inn & Cafe 1100 Hooksett Road 782-7819 23 Central St. 660-2241 139 Ocean Blvd.

City Sports Grille 929-7400 216 Maple St. 625-9656 Breakers at Ashworth Hudson Club ManchVegas 295 Ocean Blvd. 926-6762 AJ’s Sports Bar 11 Tracy Lane 718-1102 50 Old Granite St. Cloud 9 The Bar 222-1677 225 Ocean Blvd.

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Foundry 50 Commercial St. 836-1925 Fratello’s 155 Dow St. 624-2022 Jewel 61 Canal St. 836-1152 Karma Hookah & Cigar Bar Elm St. 647-6653 KC’s Rib Shack 837 Second St. 627-RIBS Murphy’s Taproom 494 Elm St. 644-3535 Penuche’s Music Hall 1087 Elm St. 206-5599 Salona Bar & Grill 128 Maple St. 624-4020 Shaskeen 909 Elm St. 625-0246 Shorty’s 1050 Bicentennial Drive 625-1730 Stark Brewing Co. 500 Commercial St. 625-4444 Strange Brew Tavern 88 Market St. 666-4292 TGI Fridays 1516 Willow St. 644-8995 Whiskey’s 20 20 Old Granite St. 641-2583 Wild Rover 21 Kosciuszko St. 669-7722 Meredith Giuseppe’s 312 Daniel Webster Hwy 279-3313 Merrimack Homestead 641 Daniel Webster Hwy 429-2022 Jade Dragon 515 DW Hwy 424-2280 Merrimack Biergarten 221 DW Hwy 595-1282 Tortilla Flat 594 Daniel Webster Hwy 262-1693 Milford J’s Tavern 63 Union Sq. 554-1433 Pasta Loft 241 Union Sq. 672-2270

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Sayde’s Restaurant 136 Cluff Crossing 890-1032

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Seabrook Chop Shop: Two Roads Tuesday - Lil’Heaven Wednesday, Oct. 31 Dover 603 Bar & Lounge: Rock the Mic w/ DJ Coach Falls Grill & Tavern: Rick Watson Fury’s Publick House: Victim of Circumstance Dublin DelRossi’s Trattoria: Celtic and Old Timey Jam Session Exeter Exeter Inn: Barry Brearley Gilford Patrick’s: Cody James - Ladies Night

Hillsborough Turismo: Blues Jam w Jerry Paquette & the Runaway Bluesmen Londonderry Coach Stop: Phil Jacques Harold Square: Houdana the Magician (Tableside Magic) Manchester Bungalow: Pickwick Commons/False Accusations/I Have No Eyes Fratello’s: Mark Lapointe Penuche’s Music Hall: Bill Connors: The Elton Experience Strange Brew: Jesse’s Open Extravaganza Meredith Giuseppe’s: Mary Fagan

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NITE CONCERTS Mr. Aaron Band Halloween Bash (Children’s) Sunday, Oct. 28, 8 p.m. Capitol Center Wood Brothers Friday, Nov. 2, 8 p.m. Colonial Theatre Jonathan Edwards Friday, Nov. 2, 8 p.m. Tupelo Official Blues Brother Revue Friday, Nov. 2, 8 p.m. Capitol Center Jake Shimbukuro Saturday, Nov. 3, 8 p.m. Colonial Theatre

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“Getting Shift-E” — moving over Across 1 Cut coupons, say 5 Show whose 50th season would premiere in 2024 8 Holiday driver, in a phrase 14 Sea movement 15 Japanese for “yes”

16 “Let’s hide out!”

17 Animal that’s a source of Musk?

19 Home theater component 20 Every last one 21 Handler of meteorology?

23 Indian yogurt drink

25 “I Am America (And ___ You!)” (2007 Stephen Colbert book) 26 Lofty 29 Agcy. combating price fixing 30 Hanoi lunar festival 33 Falco of two HBO series 36 Fantasy group 38 Circumvent 40 Clapton-inspired New Orleans dish?

43 Kick back 44 Old Norse letter 45 Name associated with IRAs 46 Shadowy figure 47 Use a crowbar 49 Group associated with Brooklyn since 2012 51 “No Logo” author Naomi

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22 Scientist Albert who studied LSD 24 “Come Back, Little ___” (William Inge play) 27 Rockstar Games game, to fans 28 Shakespeare play split into two parts 30 Luau root 31 Do some cutting and pasting 32 Part of MIT, for short 33 Messes up 34 Like one end of a pool 35 Sit ___ by (take no action) 37 Tempe sch.

39 Poet’s output 41 Da Gama, for one Down 42 Word in some obits 1 Great buy 48 Makes alterations to 2 ___ Wafers (Nabisco brand) 50 The other side 3 Matinee stars 4 You can’t take a Scantron with 51 Unscrupulous man 52 Features to count it 54 Loser to Truman and FDR 5 Oxford, e.g.

55 Draw forth 6 “The Lion King” lioness 56 Landscaping tools 7 Does some workout tasks 57 “Julius Caesar” inquiry 8 Cut in half 58 Pie shop purchase 9 Like some shady calls 59 Leave out 10 Metallic quality 11 “Wheel of Fortune” creator 60 Skewed type (abbr.)

Griffin 61 ___ the Elder (Roman 12 Neighborhood statesman) 13 Luminous sign gas 65 Scrape by, with “out” 18 It ended in 1945 ©2018 Jonesin’ Crosswords 53 Jon of “Napoleon Dynamite” 57 British prep school offering singing lessons?

62 Actress Gabor 63 Wheat-free soy sauce 64 Advice to “Star Wars” fans?

66 Hot dish stand 67 “It’s a dog ___ dog world out there” 68 “Akeelah and the Bee” star Palmer 69 Says 70 ___-pitch softball 71 They may be beady

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SIGNS OF LIFE All quotes are from We’re Going to Taurus (April 20 – May 20) I tried. Not Need More Wine, by Gabrielle Union, much, mind you, but I did try. And that’s better than nothing. born Oct. 29, 1972.

Gemini (May 21 – June 20) You know Scorpio (Oct. 23 – Nov. 21) I get asked the moment in the movies where the girl about Friends a lot because people know runs off and the guy runs after her? Well, there were only two black people on the I tried my hand at that. Midfight, I literalshow who didn’t play something like a ly ran out of my own house in shorts and a waiter or Chandler’s coworker. That leaves T-shirt. No wallet, no phone. I just started Aisha Tyler and me. For some reason, peo- running, assuming Chris was going to run ple get our plotlines confused. Aisha played after me. But I forgot that I was in decent the woman pursued by Joey and Ross. I shape, so I just kept going. You might be in played the woman pursued by Joey and better shape than you think.

Cancer (June 21 – July 22) It’s tough to Ross. Okay, I get it now. You get it now?

Sagittarius (Nov. 22 – Dec. 21) I could get past my own fears, so I have to remind have avoided all this if I had just watched myself that this is an experiment, to boldly go Angela Bassett in Waiting to Exhale. Wis- where no grown-ass woman has gone before. dom awaits you in the movies.

Whatever happens, you’ll learn something.

Capricorn (Dec. 22 – Jan. 19) I, for Leo (July 23 – Aug. 22) Our friend Phil one, started my adolescence wanting to be bought a home in our Miami neighborhood Molly Ringwald, but I spent my twenties and converted it into a basketball gym. … wanting to be Tina Turner. Molly Ringwald Phil Collins bought J. Lo’s house up the road wants to be you. from us. Different Phil. However, if I could Aquarius (Jan. 20 – Feb. 18) I am get the drum crash from “In the Air Tonight” someone who physically hides when I am playing each time I sink a basket? Yes, please. feeling, let’s say, stressed in a situation. A good soundtrack makes a difference.

Behind a garbage can, behind a tree. … I Virgo (Aug. 23 – Sept. 22) I think about slipped off my bed, looked underneath, and our [marriage] vows sometimes. … “This thought, Well, that looks cozy. So I scoot- day is about the two of us coming together ed myself in, intending to stay there, oh, I and being the best team possible,” I said. don’t know, forever. My dog Bubba Sparxxx “So today, I vow to love you without condicame into the bedroom to investigate my tions.” And I had to add one very important disappearance. … This huge lug of a dog promise: “I vow not to watch Scandal crawled under the bed to look me in the eye. or Nashville without you.” Some things We regarded each other for a long time. should be shared.

You can’t hide from Bubba Sparxxx.

Libra (Sept. 23 – Oct. 22) I was terriPisces (Feb. 19 – March 20) Women are fied of showing up at Prince’s house and told to “lean in.” Yeah, right. “Lean in so I can being lame. … The first thing I noticed as I push you over.” It’s up to you where you lean. walked through the front door was that this Aries (March 21 – April 19) Back in my was definitely Prince’s house. Purple tapescar, I called a girlfriend on the West Coast. tries, music blasting, candles everywhere…

She always had an answer for everything. “Dearly beloved…” I said to myself. Make But do you have the question? your house be your house.

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Yury Zhokhov, 41, a factory worker in Donetsk, Russia, was found kneeling in a field in early October with a knife handle sticking out of the top of his head. Zhokhov was conscious, and when questioned by police, he revealed he had stuck the 8-inch blade in himself. He was having trouble breathing through his nose, he explained, and hoped to make another hole he could breathe through. But the knife became stuck, and he couldn’t remove it. Odditycentral.com reports doctors at the local hospital were afraid to touch the knife for fear of killing Zhokhov or causing brain damage.

“It was horrific,” a hospital spokesperson told local media. X-rays showed the blade “exactly between the two hemispheres of the brain.” Specialists were called and Zhokhov survived the surgery without apparent brain damage, although surgeons are concerned about infection.

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An alert (or nosy) passerby called police on Oct. 10 after seeing staff through the window of a Natwest bank in Birmingham, England, hiding and cowering under their desks. Officers arrived at the bank in hopes of catching a robber red-handed but instead were told the workers were participating in a team-building game of hide-and-seek. West Midlands Police Chief Inspector Dave Keen tweeted that, although the incident was a misunderstanding, the citizen made “the right call,” reported Metro News.

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In Olympic National Park in Washington, the mountain goat population has baaallooned to an unnatural 700 or more animals.

The park is also becoming more popular with humans, which has led to an unsavory consequence: In their constant quest for salt and other minerals, the goats have developed a strong taste for human urine and sweat left behind by hikers and campers. Goats will lick clothing and paw at the ground where people have urinated or disposed of cooking water, making them a nuisance, according to the National Park Service. Popular Mechanics also reports that the increased likelihood of human-goat interactions has park officials worried, especially since a goat gored a hiker to death in 2010. The answer: Park officials are tagging, blindfolding and airlifting mountain goats to nearby Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, which should be more hospitable to their needs.

Smooth reaction

On Oct. 12, an Air India Express pilot guided a Boeing 737 up and away from Tiruchirappalli International Airport in Tamil Nadu, India — but not ENOUGH up and away. As the plane took off shortly after mid-

night, it hit the top of a 5-foot-tall perimeter wall and destroyed a small landing guide tower. The Washington Post reported that, despite the audible collision, the pilot told the airport director the plane’s systems were functioning normally and he was continuing toward Dubai, across the Indian Ocean.

“But we found some parts of the plane, like an antenna, on the ground,” the director said. Finally, about two hours into the flight, ground control convinced the pilot to return to India, where the plane landed in Mumbai.

Indeed, there was a huge gash in the plane’s underbelly, and mesh fencing was wrapped around the landing gear. All 130 passengers arrived unharmed and were booked on other flights, and the pilot and co-pilot have been grounded pending a review.

The continuing crisis

In an apparent attempt to destroy what little brainpower he had left, 26-year-old Brandon McVay of Council Bluffs, Iowa, ate a Tide Pod, prompting a trip to the hospital. But while he was being treated in the critical care unit, McVay went on a rampage early on Oct. 4, causing thousands of dollars of damage to medical equipment, according to the Omaha World-Herald. A nurse told the responding police officer that McVay “was yelling loudly” as he broke objects in his room before proceeding to the hallway. Keyboards, computer monitors and glass valued at more than $7,500 were found littering the hallway, where McVay was subdued by security before police arrived. McVay was arrested and held at the hospital on charges of second-degree criminal mischief and disorderly conduct in a place of business.

Food fight

Some people can get pretty territorial about their food. So it appeared in Colleton County, South Carolina, on Sept. 29, when Ryan Dean Langdale, 19, warned his 17-year-old cousin not to eat his salt and vinegar potato chips. “Do not touch my chips, or I’ll shoot you,” Langdale told his cousin, according to a sheriff’s incident report. The Charleston Post and Courier reported Langdale then went into another room, retrieved a rifle and “the rifle went off,” according to the sheriff’s document. Langdale summoned help but told police his cousin had accidentally shot himself while cleaning the rifle.

Officers didn’t think the story held up: The pathway of the bullet through the victim’s chest was “impossible” if he had mistakenly shot himself, said sheriff’s Maj. J.W. Chapman. Sure enough, when the victim was questioned after undergoing surgery, he told officers the savory snacks were at the center of the dispute. Langdale surrendered on Oct. 10 and was charged with, among other crimes, attempted murder.

People with issues

As Hermes Callijas-Gasperin’s mother cooked his dinner on Oct. 8 in Bradenton, Florida, she accidentally bumped into her 22-year-old son. That’s when he lost it, the New York Post reported, pelting her with the sausages she was frying and putting his hands on her neck. The Manatee County Sheriff’s Office said Callijas-Gasperin told officers he just wanted his mom to apologize, but he was arrested and charged with misdemeanor domestic battery.

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