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Time to Reach the Beach The Reach The Beach Relay begins Friday, Sept. 13, at 6 a.m. at Cannon Mountain in Franconia. Teams start in “waves” every 15 to 30 minLarry Marsolais utes. The event will conclude by 8 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 14, at Hampton Beach State Park. Reach The Beach consists of 12-person standard teams and six-person ultra teams that will rotate through 36 transition areas as they cover the approximate 200-mile course.

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EVENTS TO CHECK OUT SEPTEMBER 12 - 18, 2019, AND BEYOND Go with the flow

On Saturday, Sept. 14, head to Rye Harbor State Park in Rye at 9 .am. for an ocean flow yoga class. An instructor will guide you through a morning ocean flow yoga class, followed by an ocean clean-up after class. The cost is $20. Find tickets on eventbrite.com by searching for “ocean flow clean up.”

See the light

The Plum Island Lighthouse in Newburyport will hold its last open house of the season on Sunday, Sept. 15, from 1 to 4 p.m. There is a short ladder to climb to the top; sneakers are required. Children must be at least 5 years old and 42 inches tall to climb to the top. Tours and parking are free.

Farm life

Head to the Salisbury Public Library on Tuesday, Sept. 17, from 6 to 8 p.m. for a documentary screening of The Biggest Little Farm. The film chronicles the eight-year quest of John and Molly Chester as they trade city living for 200 acres of barren farmland and a dream to harvest in harmony with nature.

Get your groove on

Head to Reggae at the Beach Part 2 on Saturday, Sept. 14, starting at 8 p.m. at Cloud 9 Bar and Grille in Hampton, with music by DJ Worldbeat. Tickets are $6 on eventbrite; search for the event on Facebook for details.

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Local beaches may be empty, but there are still plenty of fish in the sea — which is why chartering a boat for sportfishing can be a great coolerweather activity for people of all ages.

Fishing for all

“Most of the folks who come with us have never been,” said Captain Bob Weathersby of Seacoast NH Sportfishing in Rye. “I used to think [people tried it because of] the fish tugging on the line, but I have learned there is no one answer. People’s experience with being on the ocean varies, their interests outside of fishing varies, and the dynamic of a specific party varies, too.” Weathersby said they take many families, including those with younger kids who sometimes (and unnecessarily) worry they may not catch a fish. “They will always catch a fish because we catch either mackerel or pollock and keep them alive for the striped bass,” he said. “I can say since starting this business that any kid or adult who wanted to catch a fish has caught one with us.” Captain Don Taylor of Lily B II Charters in Rye said his charters also attract a diverse clientele. “I’ve noticed that people on vacation also book us,” he noted. “We get a lot of families and young kids interested in that kind of thing, too.” According to Katie Bitomske of Al Gauron Deep Sea Fishing & Whale Watching, their fishing trips are also designed for people of all ages and from different backgrounds. “If you give us a call, we can help you to choose the best fit for the expe-

rience level of your party and what you’re looking to fish for,” she said. “Our crew members are always willing to help a novice.” For Taylor, people who book a charter not only have the chance to catch a lot of fish, but learn something along the way, too. “I’ll talk about everything and walk everyone through what to do,” he said. “I also discuss the differences between fresh and saltwater fishing.” Taylor said he especially enjoys showing people who how to fish who have never done it before. “It is always a surprise what we catch,” he added. Bitomske said in some cases their captain may even come down from the wheel house to fish side by side with passengers and provide pointers “here and there” if he sees someone needs help. Captain Bob Tonkin of Captain Bob’s Lobster Tours and Fishing Charters said he also takes every opportunity to educate those who book with him. During their two-hour lobster tours from Hampton Beach, he said, people can learn about and experience life aboard a working lobster boat. “This is a hands-on experience that will have you pulling lobster traps, rebaiting gear, sorting and banding the lobsters, and resetting the gear to sea,” he said. During these tours, he said, people learn about the life of a lobster, their habits and sea creatures found among them. Tonkin said he also offers a “Captain’s Special,” which he said is their most popular offering. “It’s a lobster tour and fishing 8

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The Miss Ava Lee. Courtesy photo. 7 trip,” he said. “We spend a couple hours lobstering and a couple hours fishing. People rave about it.”

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According to Bitomske, fishing started out slow this spring with “lots of rain and chilly weather,” although the summer was “really fantastic.” “In the last month or so we [were] selling out boats left and right,” she said. According to Tonkin, though, the real story behind fishing off the coast has been its rapid improvement through the years. “It has definitely increased,” he said. “The fishing has been so regulated for the past five years, so now the population is up and there are a lot to be caught.” Noting for years people were unable to fish due to low stocks, Weathersby agreed and said fish are “everywhere.” “The swimmers are having them go through their legs and the paddle boarders are pointing and saying, ‘What’s that?’” he said.

He attributed the abundance of fish to science. “The striped bass population crashed in the late ’70s and we all but lost the fish,” he said. “The two locations that supplied the entire Northeast fishery came together and listened to science and fishermen input and rebuilt the stocks.” Bitomske said one recent development also enables people to catch more fish. “Just recently they upped the bag limit on haddock to 15 per person,” she said. “We are very happy to see that, and that Sept. 15 to the 30th we will be able to keep one cod per passenger. That is super exciting for us, as it has been restricted for a while now.”

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Other available fish included 8 striped bass and bluefin tuna, which is what Weathersby said they help people try to catch at Seacoast NH Sportfishing. He said their success in helping people catch these and other fish stems from a niche technique they have developed in which they use live bait that is both “visual and easy for folks.” “We have taken some time to grow our techniques that, for striped bass especially, anyone can do as long as they follow our suggestions,” he said. “We are willing to help them as much as they need or want. Anyone who wants to catch a fish can.” Noting mackerel are particularly easy to catch in July and August, Gauron said they also target striped bass. During their half-day trips when they target striped bass, he said, they catch live bait during the first hour. “We then bring them in toward shore, and we will catch a lot; it’s probably our highest success rate,” he said. Striped bass, however, pull hard. “They are a sport fish,” he said. “It is a lot of fun, though, and you definitely get a thrill out of it.” He said in the beginning of October, however, things tend to slow down. “Striped bass like warm water,” said Gauron, who cited bluefin tuna as perhaps the most rewarding fish to catch. “We don’t target them super frequently, and a quarter of our trips we can actually land one,” he explained. “Once you get them on the hook, they pull hard.” Catching a bluefin tuna, he added,

Captain Cory Gauron of Steaker Charters. Courtesy photo.

requires a substantial amount of work. “If we hook a big tuna, it normally isn’t a one-man job,” he said. One of Gauron’s most harrowing personal fishing experiences, in fact, involves a tuna on his very first charter. “We hooked a big tuna at 4 p.m. and we were still fighting it as it was getting dark,” he said. “I harpooned the fish, and when I went to grab the pole, it separated from the hook and line. It didn’t detach and was still in the tuna.” The tuna, he explained, was right at the surface. “When I pulled it, I was jerked into the water with a 600-pound tuna,” 12

Whale tales

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If fishing is not your thing, then consider going whale watching with Al Gauron Deep Sea Fishing & Whale Watching “All of our whale watch trips are currently in the afternoon so the captains are out in the morning kind of scouting for the whales,” said Bitomske. “Based on what they see, they make a plan for their afternoon trips.” This season, Bitomske said, they have been very fortunate with “some great whale activity.” “So far this season we have seen minke whales, fin back whales, humpback whales, dolphins, basking sharks, seals and sunfish,” she said. Of course, there’s always a chance you could see a whale while you’re out fishing. Taylor said one day he was out on the water with a man and his 12-year-old grandson with the former never having been deep sea fishing before. “We got halfway out, and all of a sudden a big humpback whale came 200 feet in front of the boat,” said Taylor, who said he put the boat in neutral and stropped the propeller. “The rule is you don’t move your propeller at all,” he added. In total, he said they counted four calves and 13 whales around the boat. “We were drifting with their food,” he said. “I had no way of getting out of the way. We drifted for an hour, and all around the boat were the whales. I was more concerned about the young boy fishing but the kid loved it.” Eventually, they were able to resume their fishing, as Taylor noted the boy caught haddock. “I found out the following day that he told his whole class,” he said. “I was so glad I could give that opportunity to a youngster. It’s not just going out to fish. It is what you see out there and see what the ocean has to show us.”

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he said. “I wasn’t nervous when I first went in but then realized I was surrounded by line, which can be really dangerous with a thrashing fish.” Noting he “scrambled” to the surface, Gauron said his “buddies” pulled [him] back in. “I was OK and we got the fish into the boat,” he said. “We got decent money for the fish.” Citing two magic numbers for striped bass and bluefin tuna (50 pounds and 100 pounds, respectively) Weathersby said he has caught two of the latter that weighed in at more than 1,000 pounds. “The world records are larger,” he said. Size, however, is relative. “I tell my clients, ‘He doesn’t think he’s small, and if he has stripes and a tail, it’s good enough for me,’ to describe catching a smaller bass,” he said. Regardless of size, Weathersby said he still enjoys helping people catch striped bass. “I have been fortunate to land or assist people landing thousands of bass,” he said. “Even after all these years, it doesn’t get old.”

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According to Weathersby, what makes fishing such an interesting sport is that no two days are alike. “We run two trips a day, and every day we go out we notice that what worked yesterday is only an idea for today,” he said. “Whether it is the spot, the time or the bait, things change, so it is a puzzle.” This puzzle, said Weathersby, is what he enjoys the most and what continues to be rewarding for him.

“In order to produce the results we have been able to achieve, we go into every day with an open mind,” he said. According to Bitomske, when one fishes is not important, but rather the length of time one spends fishing. “Those marathon trips are perfect if you know what you are doing and are looking for a great day of fishing,” she said. Captain Cory Gauron of Steaker Charters in Hampton Beach said they also offer marathon charter tours, which he said provide their best value. “It offers us a chance to go somewhere we usually don’t go,” said Gauron, who noted he takes people up to three hours out from the coast. “We have everything you need to go fishing,” he added. “You bring your food and drink, and we do everything so experience level doesn’t matter. We help you where we can.” On their full-day and marathon trips, Bitomske said they usually fish for the bigger fish, such as haddock, pollock, red fish and cusk. “On our shorter half-day and night fishing trips, we are not able to get out quite as far and we mainly see mackerel on these boats,” she said. According to Gauron, the most difficult thing to anticipate when fishing in the ocean is the change in conditions. “We think we are locked into something and have consistent fish in the same spot, but then the weather will change and you go to the same spot and the fish are gone,” he said. He said that to a real extent anyone “can go get lucky” but to be able to keep up results takes experience. “It takes critical thinking on where

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the fish have moved to and where do we go to fix the problem,” he said. “It keeps my brain fresh.”

A way of life

For charter boat captains, fishing is simply a way of life. “I have been fishing in some fashion or another off of the coast of Rye for 55 years,” noted Weathersby. “I have seen a lot and done a lot. I landed my first striped bass when I was 5 and my first bluefin tuna when I was 12.” Taylor said his love of fishing and teaching others to fish is in his blood. “My great-great-grandfather was a fisherman from Scotland,” he said. “I love the ocean. … Down by the sea, all worries wash away.” Fishing is also in the blood of the family who has run Al Gauron Deep Sea Fishing & Whale Watching for more than 70 years. “Several of our captains and crew members are Gaurons, and any employee who is not blood related is quickly adopted into the fold,” said Bitomske. “It is truly a family affair with multiple generations working together. Currently the fourth generation is stepping up and leaving their mark.” According to Weathersby, this way of life underscores the uniqueness of the Seacoast, which he referred to as “probably the shortest coastline in the entire United States” of any state. He said unique opportunities, however, abound on and off it. “From the whale watches to the boats that go from Portsmouth to Rye out to the Isles of Shoals that allow people to go ashore on Star Island, there is so

much to do,” he said. “You also have what we do with sportfishing and these little places that will rent you a paddle board, and you can just go on the water on a calm day like today.” For Weathersby, being on or near the water simply feels good. “I think New Hampshire is a very special place, so I hope that folks will realize that these opportunities are out there and ask a few questions if they think they want to try it,” he said. “It doesn’t take a lot of time or money, and it is worth it.” In trying to describe why she loves fishing so much, Tomlinson cited “the thrill of the catch,” waiting for the fish to bite and then reeling it in. “It is such a satisfying adventure,” she said. ‘There is also the whole idea that you are doing what your ancestors did to find food, catching a wild fish to take home and eat! It is so satisfying, a tomboy’s dream.” According to Bitomske, it is a way of life they like to share with people. “We are truly there for our customers, hopefully offering that family feeling every step of the way,” she said. “From the first phone call to our office and checking in to get your tickets to fishing alongside you, we hope to ultimately send you home with some amazing memories and a fantastic experience.”

Cast your own line

If you want to try fishing in the ocean, Weathersby suggested talking to people you see doing it. “If you see someone casting, ask them if they have caught anything,” he said. “Come into Rye Harbor 14

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13 and just ask people who are coming off the boats questions. Go to bait shops and ask questions.” Gauron agreed and said to not only talk, but listen to people. “You will do something your own way eventually anyway,” he said. Gauron cited his own experience in learning about fishing. “I started as a deck hand on a party boat at 11 and worked for several captains,” he explained. “Everyone has advice. As a fisherman, you have to piece it together. That will make you better at it.” If booking a charter, Tomlinson said, you should not forget to ask basic questions, such as what to bring on the trip, how far offshore you will be going and what type of clothes to wear. She said to also not be afraid to catch and try fish with which you may be unfamiliar. “Dogfish, also known as cape shark, is a delectable fish and eaten by most people in the U.K. as fish and chips,” she said. “Don’t be afraid to try them and other kinds of fish.” According to Taylor, you need a saltwater fishing permit to fish by yourself in the ocean. “You have to have that first, but you can fish any place along the ocean shore,” he said. “No one owns the oceanfront, so you can walk along the rocks, backyards within 50 feet of the water.” “As long as you are within 10 feet, you have the right to walk and to fish there,” he added. “There is no fishing at the marina with boats coming up, though.” While a regular spinning rod works just fine, Taylor said that the pole otherwise should be made for salt water. “If you are fishing for striped bass or on the coast, you need a 20-pound test

line,” he explained. “You want to have a slide sinker so when you cast out it sits on the bottom.” A slide sinker moves on the line, so when you catch a fish you are not also dealing with the heavy sinker. On the shore, Taylor said, people usually fish for flounder or striped bass or blue fish with lures that simulate a small fish like mackerel, with sea worms on a single hook, or by taking frozen mackerel and cutting it up into one-inch pieces. “If you are fishing for flounder, your hooks will be smaller but the shank, the straight piece after the hook, would be longer,” he said. “Fishing restrictions are seasonal, so you need to check local state regulations. Usually you can get it with your fishing license or you need to look online. Fish and Game will creep up on you.” Head out to sea Al Gauron Deep Sea Fishing and Whale Watching 1 Ocean Blvd., Hampton algauron.com Captain Bobs Lobster Tours & Fishing Charters 1 Ocean Blvd., Hampton captainbobslobstertours.com Lily B II Fishing Charters 1868 Ocean Blvd., Rye lilybiicharters.com Seacoast NH Sportfishing 26 Neptune Dr., Rye seacoastnhsportfishing.com Steaker Charters 1 Ocean Blvd., Hampton steakercharters.com

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LINDA GEBHART CHAIR OF HAMPTON BEACH VILLAGE DISTRICT BEAUTIFICATION COMMITTEE What is the Beautification Committee? The Hampton Beach Village District Beautification Committee is a subcommittee of the Hampton Beach Village District, and our mission is to improve the attractiveness of the beach area and preserve its natural beauty. The Hampton Beach Village District is led by three Beach Commissioners: Chuck Rage, Maureen Buckley and Robert Ladd. Without their support, there would be no Beautification Committee. What do you do to achieve your mission? We plant and maintain 12 gardens around the beach area. When were you formed? The Hampton Beach Village District Beautification Committee was formed in 2006 when we went to the Beach Commissioners with the idea of doing beautification work. Then the Hampton Beach Village District voters approved a beautification budget at the annual meeting in March. We started working on the first garden in the South End State Park and kept expanding every year. We’ve also added memorial benches, plaques, stones, boats, urns and trees over the years. Some of the garden locations have Hampton Beach Village District Beautification signs posted so people will know who is responsible for them. In 2009 the Hampton Beach Village District received the New Hampshire Arborists Association Community Beautification Award for transforming a blacktop island on Route 1 into a vibrant garden.

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When you are not working in the group, what do you do for fun? I’m a watercolor artist and love to paint, especially flowers. I like relaxing on the beach and going boogie boarding, walking, biking, kayaking and knitting. I’m looking forward to going out to Star Island to do some painting this month. I’m also a member of the Hampton Garden Club and a group of us went to the Maine Botanical garden, which was fun. It’s always enjoyable to Sounds good for visit beautiful gardens I don’t have to the environment, lift a finger on. too, right? The flowers do Do you folks work in the winter, too? attract pollinaNo, we all take the winter off, as tors and butterflies, many of us are snow birds. which we all depend on for our food Any future personal projects or ones source. with the Beautification Committee that LINDA GEBHART you are planning? It sounds like The Beautification Committee will you love your work. be having our fall coffee to wrap up the I do, and I get to work with other won- season and talk about putting the garderful committed people who are as dens to bed and improvements for next passionate about flowers as much as I year and how we can attract new memam. The work we all do is really a labor bers next summer. As president of the of love and adds to the common good of Hampton Arts Network, I am helping the community. Working out in the hot sun to install a group HAN Art Show in the weeding and watering is not an easy task, Weston gallery in the Lane Library this so it’s been a challenge this summer with month. I will also be helping out with a so little rain. kids’ craft night on Sept. 18 in the gallery, and I’ll be working on submitting my artwork proposal for the new Circuit How long have you served? Hard to believe it’s been 14 years. When I Court in Hampton. — Rob Levey started I was in my 60s and now I’m in my 70s. What is your favorite part about being part of this committee? I have always loved flowers. I remember planting flower seeds every spring with my mother. Now I get to plan public gardens and plant beautiful flowers, which the people really enjoy and thank us all the time. I get to meet new people from all over and help to make the beach area even more beautiful.

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Tell us about your current projects or ones you did this summer. This spring we had water service installed in the new garden at the beach playground. Last summer I had to carry water from my home to this location and hand water the new garden. This summer the garden looks fantastic with proper watering — and it sure is a lot less work to maintain.

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On Saturday, Sept. 14, the Boston Circus Guild will return to Hampton Beach for its popular fire show, giving residents and visitors a chance to close out the summer with an energetic choreographed performance featuring the guild’s expert fire performers. Professional daredevils will combine exhilarating stunts, graceful movements, and a touch of comedy, all while wielding flaming props. The BCG’s official website boasts that they have “a versatile roster of fully-insured fire performers ready to delight and amaze guests as they spin flaming staffs and swords, juggle blazing torches, and plunge fiery wicks into their mouths!” If the name “Boston Circus Guild” sounds familiar, that’s because Saturday’s fire show follows a successful night of circus acts by the same company at the Sea Shell Stage earlier this month, where an estimated 4,000 people came out to see one of Hampton Beach’s most anticipated shows of the summer. The group is a collaborative organization consisting of dozens of musicians, artists, circus performers, dancers, and event producers from across New England. “There were a lot of very young children and young parents and the kids were mesmerized by it and they were behaving like it was Christmas Eve, kind of star-struck. It really went well,”

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Hampton Village commissioner Robert Ladd said about the Aug. 31 show. The fire show — put on in partnership with the Town of Hampton Recreation Department, Experience Hampton, the Sea Coast Chamber of Commerce, and the New Hampshire State Parks — is another in a long list of performances meant to bring the Hampton Beach community together for a night of family fun. “One of the things I like about the fire show is we get co-sponsorship from the other major players in the

town. So we make this an attempt to bring different parts of the community officially together to do something collectively,” Ladd said. It’s meant to offer audiences something a little different than what they might be used to seeing at Hampton Beach. Younger audience members have given the company’s previous fire shows rave reviews, and they aren’t the only ones. Reader’s Digest named Hampton Beach as New Hampshire’s best state park in its August issue — largely because of its entirely free, family-friendly performances like the ones put on by the Boston Circus Guild. “My feelings toward the fire show come out of my having seen what we do in other ways. You know, we have bands, they may play different forms of music, but it’s music. We have fireworks every week, and fireworks are fireworks. So we’re looking for some alternative to what we do all the time, to add to what we do,” Ladd said. “It’s very rewarding to see hundreds of preschool-age children sit there just totally fixed. They were so intensely watching what was going on. They didn’t move. And you know, 3-year-olds don’t tend to sit still for too long.” The show starts at 8 p.m. on the beach and is free and suitable for adults and children of all ages. “It’s a good feeling when it’s a little bit like when you can play Santa Claus to a large audience. There is a really good feeling you get from being able to do that. Being able to share these things,” Ladd said. — Elyse Carmosino

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One small sweat for mankind Dear Car Talk: In our hot, summer climate, my back gets uncomfortably hot and moist when driving distances. I’d like our next car to have cooled seats, but By Ray Magliozzi I have heard that some of these don’t work very well and aren’t worth the money. What do you think? Would I do better to buy an after-market ventilated cushion? Thanks! — Paul Have you considered switching to 100% Pima cotton undergarments, Paul? We’ve actually come a long way in seat comfort. If you’re old enough, you may remember the vinyl seats of ‘50s, ‘60s and ‘70s. In the summer, if you were wearing shorts, and your car was parked in the sun, you’d sear the backs of your thighs like a tuna steak when you sat down. Then came cloth and velour, which were improvements. Finally, heated and cooled seat bottoms, curing us of the terrible scourge of butt sweat. From there, the ventilation moved to seat backs, to try to keep backs dry.

We’ve found that many of the ventilated seats work pretty well — some better than others. You certainly want one that ventilates the seat back as well as the seat cushion. You can always try an after-market cushion first with your current car. If it does the trick, then you’ve not only made yourself more comfortable now, but you don’t have to worry about what car you buy next. Just take the cushion with you. If the after-market cushion doesn’t cut it, then you need to embark on some summer test-drives. Make a list of the cars you’re considering. Then, on a nice, sweltering 95-degree day, go do some testing. Get a friend to help you. Wear a blue dress shirt. And when you get back to the dealership after your 20-minute loop, have him use a Sharpie and mark how far out from your spine the sweat stains spread. After a few test-drives, the marks on that shirt will tell you which car to buy next. You’ll lose a shirt, but gain invaluable knowledge for mankind, Paul. Dear Car Talk: I have a 2009 Subaru Outback with 143,000 miles. My check-engine light came on while driving. I have a device in the car that told me the engine triggered “Code P0028.” I drove

home and Googled the code: “Blah blah oil level, blah blah solenoid ...” I barely know how to do self-service gas, but I do know how to check the oil. There was not a drop on the dipstick. Shocked (because I am faithful about oil changes and other maintenance), I was also puzzled because I was only 8 miles over the suggested mileage for getting an oil change. The mechanic said I was not leaking oil so I must be burning it. But I’ve never seen any smoke or noticed a burning smell. The car has always functioned perfectly. My mechanic said to check the oil frequently and carry a quart of oil in my car for those times when my oil is low. I’ve driven 860 miles since then and my dipstick registers “full.” Could the mechanic have been wrong about it burning oil? — Mary I don’t think he was wrong, Mary. I think you probably are burning some oil. If the oil had leaked out (and you would have to lose at least two quarts for the dipstick to register no oil), it would have made a mess somewhere on the engine, and your mechanic would have noticed it. Imagine if you spilled two quarts of cooking oil somewhere in your kitchen. You’d find it. Even though your dipstick still reads full after

860 miles, that doesn’t mean you’re not burning oil. The oil change interval for this car is about 7,500 miles. If you lost two quarts in 7,500, that’s only a quart every 3,750 miles. So, it doesn’t surprise me that you haven’t seen any drop in oil in only 860 miles. Plus, oil burning accelerates as you lose oil. If you start with four quarts, and let’s say you burn a quart over 5,000 miles, now you have three quarts of oil trying to do the job of four quarts. It’s working harder and running hotter. That means it may burn the next quart in 2,500 miles. Your mechanic is right that you should check your oil regularly and top it up when necessary between changes. It would also make sense to decrease your oil change interval to every 3,750 miles from now on. Keeping newer, cleaner oil in there may help reduce the burn rate too. But the bottom line is you have now entered the stage of car ownership we call “Heapdom.” You are officially driving an old car, Mary. And at 10 years and 150,000 miles, it’s right on schedule. With a little luck, you’ll be able to nurse this Subaru for tens of thousands of more miles. It will require some vigilance. And some more oil. Visit Cartalk.com

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AT STAGES AT ONE WASHINGTON Progressive New England cuisine is how chef and owner Evan Hennessey describes Stages at One Washington (1 Washington St., Dover, 842-4077, stages-dining.com), a nine-seat chef’s counter restaurant open by reservation only. Menu options constantly change because everything is sourced from local farms and largely dependent on what is in season. With one seating per night at 6:30 p.m. from Wednesday through Saturday, and every seat located inside the restaurant’s kitchen, Stages makes for a truly unique dining experience. The menu will always feature eight to 10 courses, the first three or four of which are vegetable-based, plus one or two protein courses that could be anything veal to duck, followed by a cheese course, dessert courses and optional wine pairings. Recent dishes have included terrine of goat belly (with autumn olive barbecue sauce, oyster mousse and black radish); raw zucchini and cucumber with cow’s milk feta, grilled par-cel leaves, spigariello oil and dill; and fermented carrot sherbet with ginger, violet and wild strawberry flowers and wood sorrel. The one constant option on the food menu, Hennessey said, is his daughter Emma’s chocolate chip cookies, served straight out of the oven alongside a warm cup of frothy milk with lavender. Hennessey, who has been cooking for more than two decades and has numerous awards to his credit — including the top prize on a 2018 episode of the Food Network series Chopped — recently spoke with the Scene about his restaurant’s unique concept. How long has Stages at One Washington been around? We’ve been open for about seven and a half years now. I was the chef at two other restaurants in Portsmouth prior to this one, and I’ve also worked in Boston, New York and Chicago.

gap [between] the food’s origin and the people who are eating it. The other thing too is that … we are the complete opposite of a restaurant where you go in and are seated by a hostess. The small space allows for a lot of interaction with people, which is a really cool atmosphere.

What makes Stages at One Washington unique? I like to incorporate the locally produced food into the overall experience as much as possible. We don’t have trucks of food coming through the door — I am, in all essence, the middle man between our guests and the farms that we source from. I like to close the

What is your personal favorite dish? What actually leaves a big mark on people is those cookies. With all the dishes we serve and the way we describe them, it’s like we’re asking guests to go on that journey of texture, taste and flavor. We ask them to do a lot to stretch their palates, and so those cookies are

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almost like a warm blanket to be wrapped up in at the end. What is a dish that everyone should try? I like to think that all of our dishes are good, but where we especially shine, I think, are our cheese courses. Anybody can eat cheese at home, and so I’d rather treat it more intricately to make it much more fun and different. What is an essential skill to running a restaurant? It’s actually got very little to do with cooking. In the end, restaurants are businesses, so paying a lot of attention to the

guests, multi-tasking, managing stress levels and aiming for the highest quality we can possibly offer are all really important. What is your favorite part about being on the Seacoast? As far as the availability of product, there are a ton of farms around here, so it’s really easy for us to get good-quality vegetables and proteins. We have all four seasons, plus all these little micro-climates of interesting ecosystems, and that creates a wide diversity of wild product. On a personal side, I need to be near both the mountains and the ocean, and this area definitely provides that. — Matt Ingersoll

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TRY THIS AT HOME Chocolate Peanut Butter Pretzel Bites Could I make the name of my first recipe for this column any longer? I promise you, that wasn’t really my goal. It just was a bit tricky figuring out what to call these sweet treats. My first thought was a shorter name, such as Utterly Addictive Treats, as that sums them up pretty well. For both my recipe testers and me, it was hard to eat just one. There’s something about the combinations in these bites that make you want more than one. You’ve got the sweet and salty pairing, and the creamy and crunchy duo, both of which make you think you need to eat another. Never mind that they are handheld and fairly small, so it feels like one is not enough. While it’s an accurate name for this recipe, it does not explain what the food is at all. My second thought was to call them Peanut Butter & Pretzel Truffles, but they aren’t truly truffles. They aren’t made with ganache. They don’t have that firm filling one would expect. Although I sometimes take liberty with titles, I figured I should write my first column using correct terminology. My third thought was to name them Chocolate Peanut Butter Pretzel Balls, but these are not orb-like. Nope, not at all. The addition of crushed pretzels made roundness a difficult outcome. Add to it that you will have peanut butter all over your hands and molding these treats becomes even trickier. With an inaccurate description of its shape and a name just as long, Option 3 didn’t pass the test. Which brings us back to Chocolate Peanut Butter Pretzel Bites. Yes, it’s a long title for a

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Chocolate Peanut Butter Pretzel Bites ½ cup peanut butter Remove tray of peanut butter balls from ¼ cup powdered sugar freezer. 1 tablespoon butter softened Place one peanut butter bite in chocolate ½ teaspoon vanilla at a time, tossing with a fork until fully ¾ cup crushed pretzels coated. 1 cup milk or semi-sweet chocolate chips Shake off excess chocolate. 1 teaspoon coconut oil Return coated peanut butter ball to wax ¼ cup minced salted, roasted peanuts paper-lined plate. optional If topping with peanuts, sprinkle immediately after dipping in chocolate. Combine peanut butter, sugar, butter and When all are coated, place plate in refrigerator. vanilla in a medium-sized bowl. Stir until fully mixed and smooth. They should set in 5 minutes or less. Store Add pretzels, and mix well. leftovers in refrigerator. Form into small balls (about 1” diameter).* * This step is very messy. Your hands will Place peanut butter balls on wax paperlined plate or tray. be coated in peanut butter. Have soap and a hand towel nearby for post-peanut butFreeze for 1 hour Place chocolate and coconut oil in a small bowl. ter rolling. Microwave on high in 20-second intervals, stirring at each, until melted.

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Mass Rising by Jack’s Abby Craft Lagers (Framingham, Massachusetts) This double IPL (India Pale Lager) blows me away on the first sip — just so much flavor. It’s got the citrusy goodness and the big burst of hops you come to expect from an Paradigm Brown Ale by Kelsen Brewing IPA but it’s eminently drinkable. You can Co. (Derry) pair this with any game. I love brown ales, which I think are an underrated style, and I think Kelsen’s ParaJeff Mucciarone is an account managdigm Brown Ale is among the best I’ve tried. er with Montagne Communications, where I love the richness and the nuttiness and the he provides communications support to the complexity of this brew. At 7 percent, the New Hampshire wine and spirits industry. alcohol is warming but not too overpowering. You’ll get notes of chocolate and coffee and caramel and lightly toasted nuts. This What’s in My Fridge brew pairs perfectly with night games. Sculpin by Ballast Point Brewing Co. (San Diego) I just love how this IPA comes at you. It’s aggressive at the first sip but then you start appreciating the fruity notes of apricot, peach and mango. This is a longtime favorite of mine and one that really helps you get through those games against AFC East opponents.

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Bourbon County Stout by Goose Island Brewing Co. (Chicago) While this brew is different every year to a certain extent, it is always rich, flavorful and downright impressive—the perfect beer to slowly sip when you’re basking in the glory of your team. It’s not really for the faint of heart as the beer packs a huge wal-

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Hampton Falls loves its crafts. The 11th annual Hampton Falls Craft Festival, happening Saturday, Sept. 14, and Sunday, Sept. 15, was started at the request of fair exhibitors, says Terry Mullen, event coordinator at Castleberry Fairs. “With a simple question to our artisans, we asked where they would like us to host an event. Hampton Falls was mentioned again and again,” she said. The festival hosts 75 booths at the town common on Route 1, with work from local artisans. Castleberry Fairs is a family business that has been producing arts and crafts fairs throughout New England since 1989. The Hampton Falls Craft Festival started in 2009. “The fair is full every year and always has a waiting list [for vendors]. As for attendees, I would guess about 3,000 shoppers visit over the two-day weekend,” said Mullen. Mara Wesolaski, owner of Handpainted By Mara, creates hand-painted folk art on a variety of everyday items, like towels and tissue boxes, as well as large paintings. She is a regular at Castleberry Fairs events and appreciates the popularity of Hampton Falls Craft Festival. “The central and beautiful location ... draws a crowd with diverse tastes and desires,” she said. “It’s a very popular and well-attended fair.” Valley View Maple Farm, which sells its maple products and hand-crafted wooden gift boxes, also enjoys having a booth at Hampton Falls. “It’s a beautiful venue for a craft fair with lots of traffic and customers,” said Gaetane Kezar, owner of the farm in Springfield, N.H., with her husband Ben. As for Liberty Farm and Forge, a blacksmith shop in Maine, the best part of being at the Hampton Falls Craft Festival is the

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She got the house; she also got the jumbo mortgage. As it turned out, this wasn’t really a win for Beverly Willett. A New York attorney who had quit a lucrative job to be a stay-athome mom, Willett was living in a four-level brownstone when her husband abruptly announced that he was leaving, six months after their 20th anniversary. “I’m leaving you, I’m not leaving the children,” he said in an illuminating moment of hubris, because there’s no way to do thing one without doing thing two, unless you are granted full custody. Willett, who has written extensively about her pain in newspapers and magazines, brings her story full circle in Disassembly Required, A Memoir of Midlife Resurrection. In doing so, she treads on dangerous ground. Men and women who write critically about divorce, after having experienced one, are typically derided as bitter troglodytes who commit that most grievous of American sins: failure to move on in a country that moves at light speed. This makes the compendium of honest writing about the aftermath of divorce somewhat thin and slanted toward hysterics. Willett stepped courageously into the void and now delivers a scathing look at a judicial system that, in the era of no-fault divorce, has come to treat the dissolution of families as a business transaction, not the tribulation that it often is, particularly for parents of young children. If you like a good villain in your books, you’ll find no better one here than the woman Willett identifies only as Judge #7. Or, for that matter, Willett’s former husband, who, as he was leaving, left her a voice message that said, “No man in your lifetime is ever going to love you.” At one point in the book, Willett is sitting with a friend, also divorced, as they rue how they have morphed from happily marrieds to single moms on the verge of losing their homes. They married jerks, the friend concludes. It’s hard to disagree with that verdict from some of the anecdotes Willett tells, even knowing we’re only privy to one side of the story. But Disassembly Required is not the revenge of a bitter divorcee since Willett has already shared some of these stories in essays in The New York Times and multiple magazines. It’s Willett, dare we say, moving on and letting go, in a lengthy process that is part Buddhist monk, part Catholic priest, part Marie Kondo. And she smartly wraps the story around her dream house, the 3,500-square-foot brownstone that Willett initially believes will provide comfort and safety for herself and their daughters as they

navigate the new life into which they’d been unhappily cast. Instead, the house turns out to be yet another problem that Willett has to conquer on her path to recovery, as she discovers that she can’t qualify for the jumbo mortgage that the damnable Judge #7 ordered that she obtain within two months, and a series of unfortunate maintenance events soon transpire, because that’s how life works. Willett, who has since moved to Savannah, Georgia, the birthplace of Flannery O’Connor, opens the book with a quote from O’Connor: “It’s just about as poignant to be torn from a house as it is from a person.” That’s a reality of divorce that is often overlooked, given its greater casualties, but it’s one that affects a significant number of Americans every year. Willett winds up selling her home just like nearly five million other Americans did that year. According to census data, she said, about half of people separated from their spouses were moving because of a change in marital status. That makes sense, but it also makes for pain. As part of her efforts to keep the house, at one point, Willett hires a contractor to turn part of it into an apartment, and as part of the renovations, workmen paint over the lines on the wall where she and her former husband had marked their daughters’ growth. Of course, even people who stay married forever sometimes leave the home where their children were little, and there are far worse tragedies that can befall a couple than the loss of a few pencil marks on a wall. And at times, Willett pushes hard up against the boundaries of sympathy; hers was the sort of life that relatively few Americans will attain, both before and after the divorce, her legitimate suffering over the loss of her marriage notwithstanding. Moreover, the book would have benefited from an editor paid a dollar for every word cut. The memoir didn’t have to be this long; it didn’t want to be this long. Readers can appreciate the extent of a home’s renovation without reading the actual Lowe’s shopping list (to include “five brushed metal silver-plate doorknobs (three sets with locks and keys)”. Credit Willett, however, for her candor in addressing the many agonizing quandaries presented by divorce, from what to do with 20 years of cards she’d given to her husband, to what to do with her wedding dress. (Hint: the latter involves scissors.) Sometimes, she decides, the wisest choice is the toughest to choose. Not everyone agrees with that, just like not everyone will agree with her choices. (Personally, I’d have bought a billboard with the name of Judge #7.) For anyone struggling with the aftermath of a divorce, Willett waits in these pages to be your friend. B — Jennifer Graham

The kids of the Losers Club have grown into unhappy adults who are summoned back to Derry, Maine, in It Chapter Two, a sequel to the 2017 adaptation of part of the Stephen King novel.

This movie covers what I hope is the rest of it. I mean, I haven’t read the book but I’m really hoping there isn’t some kind of epilogue or unexplored side-plot that could be spun into three additional movies. The movie spends time in both the present day and 27 years earlier, the time frame of the first movie. Thus do we see both nervous kid Stanley (Wyatt Oleff) and soft-spoken adult Stanley (Andy Bean). Jokey kid Richie (Finn Wolfhard) becomes comedian Richie (Bill Hader). Allergic and anxious Eddie (Jack Dylan Grazer) becomes risk analyst Eddie (James Ransone). Kind-hearted Ben (Jeremy Ray Taylor), who was bullied for his weight, is now fit architect Ben (Jay Ryan). Grief-stricken Bill (Jaeden Martell) becomes grief-stricken author Bill (James McAvoy). Sad Mike (Chosen Jacobs) is now obsessed Mike (Isaiah Mustafa). And Beverly (Sophia Lillis), a girl with a lousy creep of a dad, is now Beverly (Jessica Chastain), a woman with a lousy creep of a husband. When a mutilated body is found, Mike — who spends his days living above the Derry library and listening to the police scanner? — calls up the other Loser Club members. It’s time to come home, he says, time to do what we vowed to do and put an end to the evil. Mike who?, they ask. Apparently, as the other “Losers” left town and started lives elsewhere, their memories faded — of Derry, each other and even the terrifying evil-in-clown-form Pennywise (Bill Skarsgard), who appears around town every generation to kill people and be creepy. They have a general sense of the importance of going back and also of dread and, as they meet up for a meal at a Derry restaurant, they remember each other and can even joke about how they have and haven’t changed. Slowly, they also remember Pennywise and Mike reminds them of their childhood vow, after they fought him last time, to come back to face him again if he reappeared.

Delightfully, these adults react the way most normal adults would react to childhood vows to face a soul-shaking evil, which is to say “no flipping way.” Eventually, though, they are drawn back in, particularly Bill, who is still not over Pennywise’s murder of his little brother Georgie all those years ago. Also summoned by Pennywise’s reappearance is Henry Bowers (Teach Grant), in prison for murders committed during the first movie. He is once again ensorcerlled by It, the other name for the Pennywise evil, to serve as a totally unnecessary lurking bit of menace and movie story padding. In between the emotional turmoil of our leads, we see vignettes of Pennywise’s attacks on current victims, just in case you were worried that you might miss some creepy clown behavior and some children-in-peril scenes. (The movie also features an early adults-in-serious-peril scene that is disturbing and hard to watch and that’s before the supernatural element shows up. An evil clown that eats people isn’t as awful as standard issue human evil.) Oh, good, I thought as we watch Pennywise use every “stranger with candy in a van” line to entice a victim, I was afraid this movie wouldn’t play on my realworld parenting fears. (I do not need movies to mess with my real-world parenting fears. The news does that just fine, thanks.) Weirdly, the best parts of the movie mix campy horror with humor, frequently connected to the adult response to what I thought of as the “too much evil clown” problem of the first movie. The scary evil clown is still scary and evil but it’s also sort of daffy. (And still scattered, conceptually, as a Big Bad.) The “absurdity of the still-terrifying situation” turns out to be an entertaining flavor of horror. But. It Chapter Two does not need to be nearly three hours. It is at least an hour too long, possibly more, especially considering how much time it spends not accomplishing things. The movie seems to want to give that time over to making its characters more layered, adding more emotional weight built in part with flashbacks to the 1980s setting. Instead of enriching the characters, though, this feels repetitive. We don’t get more sides to Ben and how the boy became the

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man who clearly enjoyed enormous professional and personal success but still harbored deep feelings for Beverly. Instead, we get more “fat kid” stuff. I feel like, in 27 years, there’s probably more to him than that. And speaking of Beverly, fairly or unfairly, I hate everything about how this “she’s the girl one and she has girl problems” character is developed. I say “unfairly” because maybe that’s how she’s written — thin and one-note like the others but with an irritating-to-me blend of damsel and Wendy from Peter Pan — and maybe a version that I would have liked would have been just as one-note. But still, this movie made choices about what to show us, about reenforcing the sketch we already had of young Beverly and giving us an equally scant read on now-Beverly, and I did not like those choices. I feel like there was probably a more interesting way to make the character flawed or insecure or whatever the movie was going for. It’s not just Ben and Beverly; nearly everybody gets the short shrift character-wise. Bill Hader does all of the heavy lifting when it comes to the character development given to Richie. Eddie is mostly played for laughs. Mike seems like his story is potentially the most interesting; he stayed in Derry, he remembers and he has become obsessed (“a mad man,” Pennywise not inaccurately calls him). It’s a nice character beat that is restated a couple of times but not

developed. McAvoy’s Bill gets the most meat and I feel like the movie sort of lucked out that McAvoy — like Hader — can bring twice as much to a part as is on the page. Thus we can see how not just the Pennywise stuff but the loss of Georgie and the associated guilt has impacted his life. Because of McAvoy, it’s relatively well-done stuff. Just, not worth three hours. I liked It Chapter Two more than the first movie but I’m not sure it was “better” and I have no idea how fans (of either the book or the initial outing) will feel. For me, the movie’s more selfconscious stance in relation to its central villain worked. (At least, it worked specifically when the Losers were facing off with Pennywise. “Humans versus inhumanity of other humans” scenes were not successful.) While the serving was entirely too large, the meal wasn’t bad. C+ Rated R for disturbing violent content and bloody images throughout, pervasive language, and some crude sexual material, according to the MPAA. Directed by Andy Muschietti with a screenplay by Gary Dauberman (based on the novel by Stephen King, who clearly took a page from the Stan Lee book and decided to get in on the fun in a scene that is tonally weird but I didn’t hate it), It Chapter Two is an unnecessary two hours and 49 minutes, not counting a second of trailers, and distributed by New Line Cinema.

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Live shows provide an interesting history of the band, from days playing around Michigan to heady success, before hubris and Napster brought it all crashing down. That’s followed by music that’s better in many ways than what came before. “I remember the ’90s as being a lot of shoegazer type bands — it wasn’t cool to be a rock star,” Vander Ark said. “But I think people have grown up and past that, especially the fans … so we try to put on the most entertaining show possible.” Punctuality is a good idea for attendees of the band’s upcoming Blue Ocean Music Hall show, as their biggest hit comes early in the chronological show. “Anybody who shows up late thinking they were going to hear ‘The Freshmen’ [right] before the encore is just not a good idea with this band,” Vander Ark said. The song appeared on a 1992 independent release and as a dirge-like take produced by Jerry Harrison on the first album, before a single version broke through. The band re-recorded it, fearing their label was about to shut them down. Even with those many stops and starts, Vander Ark long sensed “The Freshmen” was unique. The song was a shambolic wreck the first time he played it, but fans still responded. “I messed up all the lyrics and the story didn’t make sense,” he said. “I still had a ton of people come up after the show asking, what was that ‘for the life of me’ song?” Reprising his band’s biggest track every night doesn’t bother Vander Ark. “It’s still a song that brings joy to people,” he said. “And if we didn’t have that hit, we wouldn’t be having this conversation right now.” — Michael Witthaus

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When VHI was still a thing, Brian Vander Ark would watch episodes of Behind the Music and see himself reflected in the documentary show’s many flameouts. In the mid-’90s, Vander Ark’s band The Verve Pipe broke out with “The Freshmen,” but the dour hit was a pinnacle. After they spent millions, their sophomore effort stiffed, and an attempted comeback album was unfortunately released days after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Soon after, they broke up. What came later sets The Verve Pipe — or, more precisely, Brian Vander Ark — apart from similar bands. He had a fierce desire to maintain the lifestyle his original success had bestowed and needed a way to make it possible. The answer was house concerts. Though no one was doing them at the time, it seemed like a natural idea to Vander Ark. “After concerts, we would all get together at somebody’s house and someone would pull out the guitar and play,” he said in a recent phone interview. “I thought … if we could just figure a way to bring music into people’s homes and cut out the middle men, it’d be a lot of fun — and profitable as well.” An email blast to his 4,000 fans offered an hour each of music and hang time. “The response was overwhelming. … In two days, I had booked like 50 shows that summer. The next year was over 100 shows, in just the summer months,” he said. After 12 years, he’s done close to 800. Another idea that panned out nicely was making children’s music, born, claims Vander Ark, from an itch to get back in the studio. “Write silly lyrics and have fun recording again,” he said. “That got the

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A Whataburger location in Bastrop, Texas, was the scene of a gruesome plunge to an oily demise on Aug. 31. As customers waited in line at the counter, the Austin American-Statesman reported, kitchen workers tried to catch a mouse scampering across the food prep counter. A customer captured the scene on video as the mouse, fleeing a person trying to trap it, leapt into a fryer full of hot grease. On the video, an employee can be heard asking, “Who else needs a refund?” The video was posted to Facebook, prompting Whataburger to comment that the location had been closed and “the entire restaurant has since been cleaned and sanitized.”

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For her Aug. 10 wedding in Omaha, Nebraska, Deanna Adams, 40, told her bridesmaids, including her sister and maid of honor, Christina Meador, they could wear “anything” they’d be comfortable in. So after carefully considering several options, Meador chose her outfit: an inflatable T. rex costume. As the bride and her groom took their vows, Meador towered over them, delicately clutching her bouquet of sunflowers and, no doubt, shedding a few dinosaur tears. Meador, 38, told Adams ahead of time that she would wear the costume, according to the Omaha World-Herald, giving Adams a chance to shut the idea down, but her sister didn’t balk. In fact, Adams defended the choice on Facebook: “It’s a giant middle finger at spending thousands of dollars and putting ungodly Mysterious Police in Hamilton Township, New Jer- amounts of pressure on ourselves ... The point sey, say an unnamed 80-year-old woman was to get married to the man who treats me snoozed right through an apparent carjack- like I hung the moon, and we did that part.” ing on Aug. 28 — even though she was in the car. The victim told police she had Crime report fallen asleep in her car, parked in her driveIzaebela Kolano, 49, of Nutley, New Jerway, around 9 p.m. that evening. She called sey, pulled a fast one on Costco employees police around 4 a.m. to say she woke up on in two stores on Sept. 1, police said. Kolano the driveway and her car was gone, but she first visited a Costco in Wayne, New Jersey, had no recollection of how she got there, where she allegedly stole a $2,000 diamond the New York Daily News reported. Police ring. Then, authorities say, she went to a observed a fresh abrasion and bruise on store in nearby Clifton, where she asked to her face. The car was recovered later that see a $28,000 diamond ring — and handday in Trenton, but the search is still on for ed back the $2,000 ring, which was similar. suspects. Costco employees didn’t notice the switcharoo until Kolano was out of the building, the Associated Press reported. Police found Bright ideas • In the Mexican state of Tlaxcala, Kolano at home, and eventually recovered high school instructor Luis Juarez Texis the ring. Kolano was charged with theft. inflamed the ire of parents when he made students wear cardboard boxes (with cut- News you can use out eye holes) on their heads as they took In Jacksonville, Florida, as Hurricane an exam in order to deter cheating. Parents Dorian approached on Sept. 3, Patrick are calling for Texis’ removal, OddityCen- Eldridge became concerned that his Smart tral reported, saying the boxes amounted to car would “blow away.” So he proposed to “acts of humiliation, physical, emotional his wife, Jessica, that he park it in their kitchand psychological violence.” Others, how- en. (Her car was already in the garage.) She ever, applauded Texis’ idea, with one saying doubted he could do it, but “he opened the the boxes “teach them a great lesson.” Texis double doors and had it in. I was amazed told reporters the students consented to the that it could fit,” Jessica told the Associated anti-cheating method. Press. She said there was still room to move • A graffiti artist in Frankston, Australia, around and cook, but “my dogs are confused has been painting the Melbourne suburb by it.” Dorian narrowly missed Jacksonville purple with a message to someone named as it moved up the East Coast. Chris, saying “u need 2 talk 2 me B4 baby is born, or don’t bother after,” according to Least competent criminals a July 30 report from the Australian BroadIf you’re going to commit a crime, go casting Corp. The messages have appeared all in, we always say. But two unidention several public spaces, such as sidewalks fied crooks in the Bronx, New York, went and the sides of buildings. Frankston May- to great lengths Sept. 2 to rob a Little Caeor Michael O’Reilly said the city council sar’s pizza shop and took ... a pizza, police “would encourage those involved to con- said. Video shows one thief holding open sider more constructive, and less illegal the drive-through window, the New York ways of communicating in the future. ... Post reported, as the other crawled in on his I hope Chris and this mystery person can belly, but workers rushed to push him back work through their issues.” out. Changing tactics, the two then entered through the front door, threatened workers SEACOAST SCENE | SEPTEMBER 12 - 18, 2019 | PAGE 38

with a knife, and made off with a $23 piz- pole had been removed, along with the leopza order. “They did all that just for pizza?” a ard-print carpet, but the stage and bar are police source told the paper. still there, and the building is still owned by the Spearmint Rhino chain, based in California. It’s an arrangement school leaders have Inexplicable Uber driver Yasser Hadi of Atlanta was had to come to terms with. “Our take on it going about his business, dropping off a is that people are people,” said school board fare on Aug. 25, when a woman “came out president David Swartz. “We’re sinners, too. of nowhere, threatened to kill him, and then Even though we don’t agree with their busiviolently bit him,” Fox5 News reported. Hadi ness model per se. ... Now we’re going to told the station: “She’s acting weird, she’s act- transfer that place into a place where boys ing wild, and she’s on the car hitting it, telling and girls are raised to be our next leaders me I need to die....” Next the woman climbed with character.” inside the car, and scratched and bit Hadi as he tried to pull her out. “I said, ‘God, just let her take my flesh, I don’t care.’ I want her to go away from me,” Hadi said. Later, Atlanta police arrested 26-year-old Tasheena Campbell, who already had a warrant for an assault charge, for battery and criminal trespass. But Hadi is left with a damaged car, medical expenses and no insurance.

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The former Spearmint Rhino Gentleman’s Club in Trenton, Wisconsin, has found an unlikely new life as the Ozaukee Christian School, opening on Sept. 16, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. Kris Austin, the school’s administrator, said the stripper

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Jamie Quinlan, 12, of Louth, Lincolnshire, England, was bouncing on a trampoline in his friend’s backyard in early September when a spring broke off and lodged in the boy’s back. Jamie’s dad, Ian, rushed him to Sheffield Children’s Hospital, where surgeons removed the spring. “It took them about 10 minutes to actually get the spring out of my back,” Jamie told Sky News. “The doctors said they had never heard of something like this happening with a trampoline.” He said he didn’t realize the piece of metal had entered his back, but “All my friends looked shocked.” Visit newsoftheweird.com.

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