THIS WEEK in the Monadnock Region:

* We return after a week off, in a STORM

* Chris survived a well disaster and is PREPARED to survive a nuclear disaster, too (you guys will be finding it MORE difficult to prepare, unfortunately)

* We're gonna hold off on more fire station talk because we've got CHIEF ED WALKER appearing in person in a special episode set to drop on Monday 3/14

* HOWEVER, we are officially coming out and saying that BILL TAYLOR needs to run for reelection (Chris will vote for Bill even if his OWN WIFE runs against him)

* Select Board Chair Tyler Ward still has not come on the program

* Are you sick of all this Peterborough-centric shit? (Please contribute)

* Why is Pbro Town Meeting later than everyone else's? (We are gearing up for some HEAVY political coverage)

* Zoë's campaign platform (ban lifeguards???)

* People are TENSE (This means you can get shot going to the post office BUT we will probably have exciting elections!!)

** HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT ** Monadnock Underground Books (which is us) will be publishing Sarah Aborn's UPLEVEL SELF-HEALING WORKBOOK this spring!! Listen for details

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THIS WEEK in the Monadnock Region:

We have entered Spring Manifestation Mode, we're JOINED by Joel Huberman and Tony Cassady of the Peterborough COMMUNITY POWER TASK FORCE (the BEST-named task force, in our opinion), and provide a little (a lot) of free advice for getting the Fire Department/Municipal Campus passed.

Community power public hearings: https://bit.ly/PeterboroughPower

Take their survey: https://bit.ly/222Survey

Town Website: https://bit.ly/PowerTaskForce

BUT FIRST:

* We begin by totally butchering the definition of Community Power (our guests correct the record later on)

* TOP STORY in the Monadnock Region: Dr. Kimberly Rizzo Saunders did NOT get the job in Portsmouth (She is now "not looking for another job", hrmmm)

* ConVal mask mandate lifted effective 3/7 (will the Town Building mask mandate expire on Monday 2/28?)

* FREE ADVICE TO THE TOWN on how to get a fire station/municipal campus passed (start with a totally different plan), including:

** Should we knock down the community center?

** Remember that millennials need to go into our pockets to pay for what our elders wouldn't pay for when they should have (this is our fate, our place in history)

** We deserve nice things, especially in a "nice" town (but everyone deserves nice things, universally)

** Our dollar sign willingness needs to have limits!!

** Land swaps should always be for the people and never for the bears (who should be relocated up to Berlin)

THEN we are joined by Joel Huberman and Tony Cassady of the Community Power Task Force, tasked with (you guessed it) figuring out the details to get Peterborough on a community power plan.

* Allows the town to buy electricity in bulk and provide MORE OPTIONS (and SAVINGS) to consumers

* Does not cost the town anything

* Partially market-based solution to increasing clean energy over time (a lot for people on all sides to like in this plan)

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THIS WEEK in the Monadnock Region:

WHO IS BETRAYING PETERBOROUGH? (Several people, it turns, out)

** This episode of GoMo Tonight is sponsored by Keene Mitigation Services, your spiritual cleansing and protection specialists here to save you from the K-Hole **

* We talk about all the vulgarity that came out in the M/U open mic at the library (this was a good thing, to be clear, but I mean think of the children)

* BTW, the town can't mandate vaccines for access to public town services in THIS state (HATE to see anybody face a lawsuit...)

* TOP STORY: The 9th grade gangs are fine BUT Superintendent Kim Rizzo Saunders might be betraying us for the non-monogamous parents of PORTSMOUTH! (But apparently the newspaper there, like, looks into stuff) (also yes, we know more info has come out on this issue but we didn't know it yet when this was recorded!)

* Chris thinks he grew up in an idyllic town (she's no Jim McCormick is she)

* The Thing in the Spring has BETRAYED Peterborough for KEENE (and people are going to pretend that it's cool for decorum purposes but it's not; 30 pieces of silver!!)

* In-depth discussion of the state of music in Peterborough, which is sad and in trouble (No, Harlow's is not playing music and they don't SEEM to be planning on it, either)

* Response to philosopher-financier Angelo Voiello's argument that Peterborough needs to plan for future annexation of other towns ("humble Yankees choppin the wood")

* Uncorrected headlines? (we regret to admit we have some REALLY immoral friends)

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This week, we were delighted to be joined by Dori Drachman and Bob Haring-Smith of the Peterborough Renewable Energy Plan Task Force (PREP) and Selectman Bill Kennedy, who serves as the Board's liaison to that task force, here to tell us how we ARE going to get Peterborough's electricity totally clean by 2030!

PREP: https://www.prepnh.org/

PREP SURVEY: surveymonkey.com/r/2RVZV69

BUT FIRST

THIS WEEK in the Monadnock Region:

* Dan, Chris, and Kaela launched an impromptu war of words over winter on GoMonadnock this week (Chris wrote something adorable; Dan's not sure what side he's really on but we owe him money - see https://www.gomonadnock.com/voices for the facts)

* Olympics Rundown (an unnamed EST-supremacist host complains about China and lauds the Italian "curling hottie")

* Quick update on the MS-13 9th-graders (is "Straight Outta ConVal too dumb of a joke?)

* Reports abound of a riotous select board meeting (this is all about assessments; we keep saying it's turning back into Bible Times - or at least the Robin Hood cartoon; we recommend you listen to this program instead of...well, just listen)

* Bad timing on the Pbro mask mandate extension (the helpers are gone)

* We were snubbed by the Ledger once again

* Come to our WRITING WORKSHOPS (monadnockunderground.com/shop)

* Peterborough Town Library: their terms are reasonable and their people are good (new tagline, we'll bill them)

* STORY OF THE WEEK: the Summer Hill snow lumps (made by members of the Summer Hill Psychedelic Society; connections to both Amanda Knox AND the death cafes)

AND THEN, WE ARE JOINED BY OUR GUESTS

* Voters approved measure in 2021; task force is charged with crafting plan by end of 2022

* Peterborough has been a leader in renewable energy for quite some time

* Electrical grid 2030; home heating and transportation by 2050

* Reduction in use, community power, extensive study and analysis among many tools in toolbelt

* Towns often experience overall savings through these initiatives

* When we might turn off Seabrook?

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THIS WEEK in the Monadnock Region:

In this Very Special Episode, the winter HEATS UP as things start "poppin off" (as the kids say) over at ConVal High.

**This Episode is brought to you by BOXES TEA: For the construction worker in all of us.**

* We start with Chris' fatal fashion hypocrisy (and how he pissed off the weatherman)

* Coverage of ConVal organized crime (including a special original poem written by ConVal senior Kayleigh Campbell)

* What is the appropriate way to Facebook react to this stuff (it's "wow"; none of the other reacts are safe yet)

* Freshman are like the small dinosaurs who swarm you (ALLEGEDLY, according to rumor)

* Is it okay for kids to vape? (The thrill of busting out those doors back in the early aughts)

* The Pheasant Lane mall is THRIVING (And it's still a great place for youth smoking)

* We go through all kinds of dangerous advice for teens (Those hormones are dangerous)

* None of this is the result of movies, music, or video games (Always has been)

* Giving the school the benefit of the doubt (Proof is more than just Eminem's buddy)

* More advice for teens

* The Wait is Over (Did you know the bridge is open)

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THIS WEEK in the Monadnock Region:

There may STILL be virtually nothing going on in the region, or in January, but we have Monadnock Underground FICTION AWARDS to announce and with which we shall shake your bones.

**This episode is sponsored by Homely Chastity Overalls, New England’s leading brand for frumpy farm and field fashion.**

* Prepare to be dazzled (Chris opens with questionably bold claims)

* M/U Contest Winners (nobody knows where Radke came from but we know he's GOING to Atlantic City):

**Palm d'Granit - Diane Kane - "The Cost of Free Will" https://www.monadnockunderground.com/the-cost-of-free-will/

** The Thompson Medallion - Jared Radke - "Punching on Maxie Smuts" https://www.monadnockunderground.com/punching-on-maxie-smuts/

** The Follow the Leader Award - Sam Johnson - "In its Proper Place" https://www.monadnockunderground.com/in-its-proper-place/

** The Order of the Mystic Prince - Cas Stone - "What the Dragonfly Wanted" https://www.monadnockunderground.com/what-the-dragonfly-wanted/

** The Blazing Debut Award - Rachel Mussenden - "Married to a Cult Leader" https://www.monadnockunderground.com/married-to-a-cult-leader/

** Honorable Mention for Poetry - Stephanie Latini - "We Deserve Love" https://www.monadnockunderground.com/we-deserve-love/

* We can clap audibly with one hand (screw you, monks)

* Shoutout to our good friends John and Madison at the FRESH KILLS podcast (they're like us, but different). Check it out here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fresh-kills/id1565448798

* We've got writing workshops coming.... (https://www.monadnockunderground.com/shop)

* ACTUAL top story in the region: New Ipswich car TORCHED by Big Tobacco (reminds me of an unhappy jacuzzi in a motel in Fitchburg)

* Still nothing actually going on (besides progressives calling for segregation?)

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THIS WEEK in the Monadnock Region:

...absolutely NOTHING is going on! Winter is rough!

So instead, we talk about the suggestive realities and ugly disappointments inherent to certain types of winter fashion and the existential questions associated with the Rise of the Jeans. Like, we get really deep into it. For this one episode, we are basically the Vogue or the Glamour of the Monadnock Region.

**This episode is sponsored by emerging band DOWN BY TEN - songs you know, music you can dance to - covering rock (even yacht rock) from the 60s through the 00s - available for booking NOW for your party, show, corporate forced fun, or seance: https://www.facebook.com/DownByTen/ **

* The COVID show needs better writers (and probably a laugh track; RIP Bob Saget)

* We extensively review the sensual warmth of camel-hair tights (particularly the long-haired version; https://www.ebay.com/itm/151885585425?hash=item235d161c11:g:6icAAOSwOHpg2X~M)

* The lurid fashion flair of beaver pelts (which cost more on non-stolen land; check out this stud: https://www.ebay.com/str/dakotalinesnares)

* A warning against killing endangered lynxes for their fur (don't do it)

* The real issue is that everyone looks terrible in the winter (and a lot of us still have some time left in which to look good!)

* Puffer jackets are ugly as sin and fleece pullovers are pajamas (Chris starts to get a little questionable in this section...)

* Don't dress for comfort or warmth (unless you hate yourself)

* Wool is fine and so is fur (and it's okay to be ugly in the woods)

* Thomas Jefferson weighed in on this (and we should have listened to him)

* Totally different subject but Chris caused a bit of a stir recently with his public statements on low-rise jeans (but there's an existential question: what COUNTS as high-rise and low-rise?)

* Septuagenarians in the 90s harbored wholly foreign notion of where the waist is located (SLACKS UP TO THE PECS)

* Local News: In Peterborough, people will not mind their business (if you're the guy in the van, please reach out to us to tell your story; everybody else, stop calling the cops for no reason)

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THIS WEEK in the Monadnock Region:

* The Grinch gives gifts and the cops get called (thanks Karen; and good for that four-year-old)

* New Years Resolutions? (Sam Says No)

* Driving onto the ice skating rink (post rink status pics in the Pbro group and tag #gomotonight)

* Everybody's pissed at Crotched Mountain (everybody)

* Plans for special COVID 2-yr Anniversary Special in March (Greatest Hits)

* 2 locals stranded in VA - and the better story that wasn't told (George Washington would've been nothing without Gen. Shartle)

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** COME AND SEE US AT THE LIBRARY

Peterborough Town Library/Monadnock Underground Writers' Night Out - Open Mic for ALL WRITERS - 1/13 5:30-7 PM **

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THIS WEEK in the Monadnock Region

We make our return from holiday break with a late episode recorded back on 12/22 but which remains even MORE relevant today and may well be our best episode yet. (The critics are raving.)

* TOP STORY: Local resident tries to bring the warmth of Christmas to the underserved, overly-exiled fight club kids of Peterborough

** There is so much to say about this

** Kudos for philanthropist Kevin Brace for leading the charge to raise funds for this cause

** We now already know the plot of the 2022 Big Hit Hallmark Xmas Special

ALSO:

* Dog parks are for lovers (Chris changes his mind, for once)

** You don't want to find the love of your life in the produce section of Peterborough Shaw's

* Chris has angered Mark Zuckerberg (Learn what can get you banned or otherwise in trouble!)

** Groped in the dingy digital alley (Invisible people in the metaverse?)

** FB stalking has lost its luster (we already know how everyone turned out)

** But shoutout to all the long-lost friends and classmates out there (there's not many, but we remember them in our hearts)

* Zoë's flute crisis ("Dr. Dre and Tupac are the same")

* WINNER OF THE CALENDAR WARS

* Some great parting New Year's advice

** COME AND SEE US AT THE LIBRARY

Peterborough Town Library/Monadnock Underground Writers' Night Out - Open Mic for ALL WRITERS - 1/13 5:30-7 PM **

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THIS WEEK we take a break (mostly) from local foibles and goings-on to focus our attention on the HOLIDAYS.

* We start with an impromptu discussion of Handel's Messiah

* There is now a 2-lane drivable Main Street Bridge (though it may not yet be time for a ribbon-cutting)

* Local holiday event recap (along with what we've got to deal with in the years to come - and why)

* The connection between Christmas and The Wire (an HBO Max subscription would make a great gift for anyone who likes good things)

* There is no fishing in Succession (but is it aspirational?)

* Sam doesn't watch Christmas movies (but we do a deep dive into many, many Christmas movies - good and bad and very bad - anyway)

* The VH1 Behind the Music episode on the California Raisins is discussed

* Xmas with the mafia

MERRY CHRISTMAS - even to our enemies

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