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News & Notes 22/09/22

New Hampshire 2022 primary election results

The results of the New Hampshire 2022 primary election on Sept. 13 are as follows, according to the New Hampshire Secretary of State:

Republican

U.S. House District 1: Karoline Leavitt (34.81%)
U.S. House District 2: Robert Burns (32.95%)
U.S. Senate: Donald Bolduc (37.12%)
Governor: Chris Sununu (78.70%)

Democrat

U.S. House District 1: Chris Pappas (unopposed)
U.S. House District 2: Annie Kuster (unopposed)
U.S. Senate: Maggie Hassan (94.31%)
Governor: Tom Sherman (unopposed)

The New Hampshire 2022 general election will take place on Tuesday, Nov. 8. Visit the New Hampshire Secretary of State website, sos.nh.gov, for information about voting and elections.

Right to Covid vaccine privacy

New Hampshire residents now have the option to withdraw their Covid vaccination information from the New Hampshire Immunization Information System in accordance with New Hampshire House Bill 1608. “The state of New Hampshire obtained information about your Covid-19 vaccination status without offering you a chance to opt out of the state immunization registry,” the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services’ Division of Public Health Services stated in a press release. “Our New Hampshire constitution honors your right to privacy, including your medical information, and you have the right to withdraw your information from the immunization registry.” Residents who want to withdraw their Covid vaccine information from the state’s registry must complete a Withdraw and Remove Information from the NH Immunization/Vaccination Registry form, available on the NH DHHS website, dhhs.nh.gov, and obtain a health care provider’s or notary’s signature, then fax the form to the DHHS Immunization Program at 603-271-3850.

First child monkeypox case

The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services and the City of Manchester Health Department have confirmed the state’s first pediatric monkeypox infection. According to a press release, the Manchester child became infected after exposure to a household contact infected with the virus. The child is experiencing mild symptoms and is currently isolating at home. The departments are working with the child’s school to identify any individuals who may have had close or prolonged contact with the child while they were contagious. State Epidemiologist Dr. Benjamin Chan stated in the release that “the risk to the general school population and others in the community is very low.” The CDC has reported at least 27 cases of monkeypox in youth under the age of 16 in the U.S. Visit dhhs.nh.gov/programs-services/disease-prevention for information and resources on monkeypox in New Hampshire.

Energy costs assistance

With rising fuel and electric costs expected this winter, House Bill HB2023 has been passed allowing the New Hampshire Department of Energy to provide up to $35 million in relief on energy costs to qualifying New Hampshire families via an emergency fuel assistance program and supplemental electric benefit. “New Hampshire just delivered the largest energy relief package this state has ever seen, helping families in need this winter — using our state surplus funds,” Gov. Chris Sununu said in a press release. “Thanks to strong fiscal management, New Hampshire is able to invest state-surplus funds to help families get through this winter.” The one-time emergency relief package will be available to households that earn between 60 and 75 percent of the state’s median income; an additional $7 million is allocated to support existing assistance programs for households making 60 percent or less than the state’s median income.

Aviation Museum volunteering

The Aviation Museum of New Hampshire (27 Navigator Road, Londonderry) is having a volunteer open house on Tuesday, Sept. 27, from 7 to 8:30 p.m., where the public is invited to meet current volunteers and learn about the volunteering opportunities available at the museum. According to a press release, the Aviation Museum is a nonprofit organization “dedicated to celebrating New Hampshire’s role in aviation history and inspiring tomorrow’s pioneers, innovators and aerospace professionals.” Volunteering opportunities may include greeting guests at the front desk, leading tours and staffing the gift shop; working with young people through the education outreach program and student plane-building program; evaluating donations and cataloging items in the historical archive and assisting researchers; administrative tasks related to memberships, fundraising, communications and building maintenance; managing tech systems; and helping with special events. If you plan to attend the open house, call 669-4877 and leave a message with your name, or send an email to ldearborn@nhahs.org.

The New Hampshire Food Bank and the Concord Police Department will host two Stuff-A-Cruiser food drives in Concord this month — one on Friday, Sept. 23, from 9 a.m to 1 p.m., at Shaw’s Supermarket (20 Fort Eddy Road), with donations to support the Salvation Army, and the other on Saturday, Sept. 24, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., at Hannaford Supermarket (73 Fort Eddy Road), with donations to support Friends of Forgotten Children. According to a press release, the goal of the drive is to fill a police cruiser with non-glass, non-perishable food donations in support of Hunger Action Month, a nationwide awareness campaign to fight hunger. Visit nhfoodbank.com to learn more.

Ryan Cashin, Deputy Chief for the Manchester Fire Department, has been nominated for the position of Fire Chief and Emergency Management Director for the City of Manchester. According to a press release, the nomination went before the Board of Mayor and Aldermen on Sept. 6 and is on a one-month layover until the next meeting on Oct. 4. “Deputy Chief Cashin has been a dedicated member of the Fire Department for 23 years,” Manchester Mayor Joyce Craig said in the release. “He is a strong leader and problem solver, who has worked hard to earn the respect of the men and women of the department and the city as a whole.”

A top prize-winning ticket for the Lucky for Life lottery game was drawn at Nouria on the Londonderry Turnpike in Auburn on Friday, Sept. 16, WMUR reported. The prize before taxes is the winner’s choice of $1,000 a day — $365,000 a year — or a one-time payout of $5.75 million. Friday’s ticket is the third top prize winner to be drawn in the Granite State since it started offering the game in 2012. The first two were drawn in August 2013 and March 2016. The game is currently played in 23 states, plus the District of Columbia, with drawings held seven days a week.

Let the conversation about our kids begin!

The first time I worked on redoing the Minimum Standards for Public School Approval was 1992. I was a brand new member of the State Board of Education, which was embroiled in a huge controversy (Concord Monitor’s sixth biggest story of the year) over its seemingly heavy-handed approach to revising the document that governs how New Hampshire runs K-12 education. It was trial by fire as my first assignment involved 300 angry education supporters in Exeter. The next week it was 600 in Salem. So I asked for authorization from then state board chair Judith Thayer to conduct a meeting aimed at bringing the constituents together to review their concerns. We met for a half day at the Legislative Office Building and came up with solutions that seemed to satisfy the parties. They passed unanimously. Overall, It was a great lesson for me. I learned how not to approach changing the minimum standards. Inclusiveness and transparency is the lesson!

The second time I took on this task was in 2003 when the new governor, Craig Benson, asked me to chair the State Board and charged me with redesigning public education, a charge most would have run screaming away from. But it was exactly the charge that I wanted.

Both Benson and I were not good students. I’ve often said “school taught me that I wasn’t very bright and life taught me that school was wrong.” We wanted a system that would work for every student! What the State Board came up with is called competency-based learning. We were the first in the nation to put it into our regulations and started a national movement.

But don’t take it that success was easy, because it was not. Change scares lots of folks. Especially when it involves kids. That state board set out to create what former Executive Director of the New Hampshire School Boards Association Ted Comstock (RIP) said was “the most inclusive process in state history.” Sounds like we succeeded.

We’re about to do it again. The nonprofit that I lead, the National Center for Competency-Based Learning, has been tasked by the New Hampshire Department of Education to update the minimum standards. We have an All-Star Team of New Hampshire public school professionals who’ve worked tirelessly to put together a draft to begin this important discussion. So, let’s bring the conversation all over the state to get input from educators, parents, kids and the entire New Hampshire community. I can’t wait!

Fred Bramante is a past chairman and member of the New Hampshire State Board of Education. He speaks and consults on education redesign to regional, state and national organizations.

Apple season — 09/15/22

September is prime apple picking season in southern New Hampshire, kicking off a harvest season for most local orchards that runs right through the month and into October. Find out where you can go to pick your own apples at local orchards and farms, and discover other quintessential fall activities, like corn mazes, hay rides, pumpkin picking and more.

Also on the cover Katelyn Sahagian brings you all of the details of the annual Granite State Comic Con, returning for a 20th year this weekend (page 17). Discover authentic cuisine and more at the annual Egyptian Food Festival in Nashua (page 26). Glendi, a more than 40-year tradition at St. George Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Manchester, returns with three days of homemade Greek entrees, pastries and more (page 25).

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Career in review

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Career in review

Marshall Crenshaw rocks The Rex

By Michael Witthaus

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Calling his latest tour “40 Years In Showbiz,” Marshall Crenshaw is celebrating the anniversary of his 1982 debut album. However, he started in the business a few years before that, performing on Broadway and releasing his first single on the venerable Shake Records label.

In fact, the song that arguably launched his eponymous first platter, “Someday, Someway,” was born while Crenshaw was playing John Lennon in Beatlemania, during its run in Boston.

When the show hit the city in early 1980, Crenshaw had given notice he was leaving. The cast stayed at the Copley Plaza Hotel, and he’d walk there from the Shubert Theatre every night. “Along the way I would get ideas and energy,” he said in a recent phone interview. “It was my first time in Boston, and I loved it… it was winter, but I loved that too. I just had this great sense of possibility about my future.”

Crenshaw’s affinity didn’t end then. “I kept going back to that hotel every couple of years,” he said. “I wrote part of the songs on Field Day [his second record] there. Because it’s a lucky hotel.”

Among the many projects Crenshaw is currently working on is the reissue of those first two albums, with outtakes, bonus tracks and other rarities. The first will drop in November, on Black Friday, with Field Day due in early 2023. They will be released independently; surprisingly, it cost him nothing to secure the rights from his old label, Warner Brothers.

“God bless America,” he said. “The copyright laws allow the author of a work to reclaim that work after 35 years, if you do it in a timely manner, which I did. I claimed the U.S. rights to the sound recordings and the publishing also. That was a pretty heady day.”

So fans will hear the original versions of “Someday, Someway,” “(You’re My) Favorite Waste of Time,” “Cynical Girl” and other songs for the first time on streaming platforms. “They’re going to be amazing — not to be hyping my own stuff,” Crenshaw said, adding a plug for the physical product. “We worked really hard on going into depth with the packaging, to let your mind step inside the world of those records.”

The sophomore effort remains his favorite. “That one really is golden for me … a really vivid moment in my life, “ he said. “There was bad and good stuff going on. It was the culmination of everything, including my failed relationship with Warner Brothers.”

Late last year he released The Wild Exciting Sounds of Marshall Crenshaw: Live In The 20th and 21st Century. Gathered from 1980s radio broadcasts like King Biscuit Flower Hour and more recent shows, the two-disc set gives fans a good idea of what to expect when Crenshaw plays The Rex Theatre in Manchester on Sept. 22. For the show, he’ll be joined by Fernando Perdomo on guitar, bass player Derrick Anderson and Mark Ortmann on drums.

“We do a cross-section of stuff from over the 40 years, and some old rock ’n’ roll songs just for kicks,” said Crenshaw, who played Buddy Holly in the 1987 biopic La Bamba. “It’s just a good evening. Fernando is a great guitar player, the two of us play together really well. If you like my stuff, or if you’re interested or curious about it, I’m pretty sure you’ll come away satisfied.”

On the non-music front, Crenshaw is close to finishing a documentary film on the life of Tom Wilson. A Black producer, Wilson helmed Bob Dylan’s “Like A Rolling Stone” session and was crucial to the careers of Simon & Garfunkel, Frank Zappa and Velvet Underground, accomplishments that came after he’d run the influential Transition jazz label.

“It was a shock for me when I suddenly realized I was going to do it,” Crenshaw said of the project. “It just hit me like a bolt of inspiration…. I looked at the bullet points of his artistic legacy, and I saw a commonality between Sun Ra, Cecil Taylor, free jazz, avant-garde and then with electric Dylan and Sounds of Silence. To me those things all fit together; what made them fit together was this one person’s vision.”

That a Black producer was so vital to white performers was secondary to Wilson’s art, he continued. “At that time, the recording session world was integrated, at least in New York,” Crenshaw said. “People are mystified by it now, but that just says more about people now than it says about people then.”

Marshall Crenshaw
When: Thursday, Sept. 22, 7:30 p.m.
Where: The Rex Theatre, 23 Amherst St., Manchester
Tickets: $39 to$49 at palacetheatre.org

Featured photo: Marshall Crenshaw. Courtesy photo.

The Music Roundup 22/09/15

Local music news & events

• Laugh night: Enjoy Third Thursday comedy with Matt Barry, joined by James Hamilton, Gilman Seymour and Jonah Simmons. Barry is now in his second decade of doing standup after trying it out at the Shaskeen in 2011. He mixes jokes about underemployment, living in his parents’ house and smoking weed — the latter less prominent since cannabis is legal more places. Thursday, Sept. 15, 7:30 p.m., SoHo Asian Restaurant & Bar, 49 Lowell Road, Hudson, $18 in advance, $20 at the door; email comedyonpurpose@gmail.com.

• Rock out: Performing their only New Hampshire show, Winger rolls out their hits, including “Seventeen,” Can’t Get Enough,” “Headed For A Heartbreak” and “Miles Away.” Formed in NYC during the halcyon days of hair bands, their glam and prog metal mix was all over MTV for a while before they split in the mid-’90s. They re-formed in 2001 and have made a few albums since. Leaving Eden opens the show. Friday, Sept. 16, 6 p.m., Granite State Music Hall, 546 Main St., Laconia, $29.99 and up at ticketweb.com, 21+.

• Helping out: A benefit for Ukrainian Refugee Relief features Foreigners Journey, a tribute act that covers two classic rock groups, co-headlining with Seacoast Idol favorite Jordan Quinn. The double doppelgänger band is led by singer Keith Carmichael, who pulls off the feat of switching between Lou Gramm doing “Urgent” and “Hot Blooded” and Steve Perry singing “Lights” and “Don’t Stop Believing.” Saturday, Sept. 17, 7:30 p.m., Stockbridge Theatre, 44 N. Main St., Derry, $41 at stockbridgetheatre.com.

• Female energy: Enjoy an afternoon set from Caylin Costello, a singer and guitarist who recently opened both days of the RoC The Range Festival. She learned her first song, “House of the Rising Sun,” at age 12, and started hitting a local open mic a few years later, doing her first paying gig at 17. She’s built a solid calendar playing covers and originals, despite the challenges of being a woman in an often male-dominated scene. Sunday, Sept. 18, 4 p.m., Stonecutters Pub, 63 Union St., Milford. See facebook.com/caylincostellomusic.

• Read & play: A night of poetry and music is helmed by Myles Burr, author of Therapy Is Expensive So I Wrote This Book Instead, and editor of a few anthologies. Featured poets include Claire Conroy, Mikayla Cyr, Allison J. Hall, Mike Nelson, Lillian Zagorites and Dana Brooks. The evening’s musical element includes hip-hop from Sig Shalome, a West Coast transplant who recently released an eponymous EP. Wednesday, Sept. 21, 7 p.m., The Press Room, 77 Daniel St., Portsmouth, $10 at eventbrite.com, 21+.

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (PG)

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (PG)

Jenny Slate and Dean Fleischer-Camp bring the shoe-wearing shell of their early 2010s short films to a feature-length story with Marcel the Shell with Shoes On.

Seashells Marcel (voice of Slate) and Nana Connie (voice of Isabella Rossellini) live in a house that is now an AirBnB but was once the home of a couple. When the couple separated, the man quickly packed, dumping the contents of his sock drawer into his suitcase — the sock drawer unfortunately having been the safe room for Marcel’s family of shells and other small googly-eyed items. Marcel shows off the innovations he and Connie have made now that they live in the house by themselves to Dean, a documentary maker who has moved in after his own breakup. The videos they shoot of the sweet Marcel and his kind grandmother earn Marcel internet fame, for better (Connie’s hero Lesley Stahl wants to interview them) and worse (people showing up at the house to take selfies). It also introduces the idea that this fame may help Marcel track down his lost community.

Relationships, grief, change, family — yes, Marcel is a soft-voiced lo-fi craft project, but this movie goes to some deep places and has him (in a way that is both simple but very well-developed) deal with some big issues. And it’s fun, full of charming visuals of shell-sized Marcel traveling via tennis ball and Connie sleeping, grand dame style, in a makeup compact inside a jewelry box. Short and sweet (without end credits, the movie clocks in at less than 90 minutes) Marcel is a thorough delight. A

Rated PG for some suggestive material and thematic elements, according to the MPA on filmratings.com. Directed by Dean Fleischer-Camp with a screenplay by Dean Fleischer-Camp, Elisabeth Holm, Nick Paley and Jenny Slate, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On is an hour and 30 minutes long and is distributed by A24 in theaters and for purchase via VOD.

Prey (R)

The Predator franchise gets a fun new entry with Prey, which takes us to a Predator’s hunting trip to Earth in 1719 in the northern Great Plains.

When Naru (Amber Midthunder), a young Comanche woman who is a good tracker and has solid healing skills but really wants to be a hunter, first sees what we know is a Predator spaceship, she takes it as a sign that she’s ready to prove herself on a hunt. In this particular case, she and the young men from her tribe, including her brother Taabe (Dakota Beavers), are hunting a mountain lion. But Naru quickly becomes convinced that something else is out there in the forests and grasslands, something bigger than a bear and with the ability to skin a snake. Naru has to convince the dismissive boys that she is worthy of being with them and that she knows what she’s talking about when she measures footprints and estimates the size of the being that must have made them.

Midthunder is often carrying scenes on her own, making squinting into the woods or tensing at a light rustle suspenseful enough to keep your attention glued to the screen. She does an excellent job of making Naru a believable person — both capable and scared, eager to prove herself and occasionally uncertain. We can believe that Naru, who might not have the alien’s strength and size but does have knowledge of the field of play, can put up a real fight against the Predator. I found myself thinking that this movie, with its mountain lion hunt and its introduction of the boorish (but well-armed) French traders who have started to invade the land, could have been a cracking thriller even without the Predator aspect, but the folding of Predator lore into a more Earth-bound story works. It has vibes of the highly enjoyable 2004 Alien Vs Predator, with a game-sees-game aspect to the human-Predator faceoff. A

Rated R for strong bloody violence, according to the MPA on filmratings.com. Directed by Dan Trachtenberg and written by Patrick Aison, Prey is an hour and 39 minutes long and is distributed by 20th Century Studios via Hulu.

Featured photo: Marcel the Shell with Shoes On.

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