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“America’s Got Talent” (AGT), the long-running summer talent show on NBC returns this season launching O.C. singer
Matt Mauser, lead vocalist from the popular beach band Tijuana Dogs, into the national spotlight.
Mauser lost his wife,
Christina, in the downing of the helicopter last year transporting Kobe Bryant, his daughter, Gianna, and seven others to the Camarillo Airport, from where they would have traveled to Bryant’s sports complex in Thousand Oaks.
Both Matt and Christina were much loved friends of Kobe, brought together through mutual association via Newport’s Harbor Day School where Matt once taught. Christina was the glue. She adored the Bryant girls, coached them along with her own children while managing all of the administration supporting Matt’s dream pursuing a career in entertainment.
Luke Eastman | Rev. Diane Sullivan Eleanor Abbot contracted polio at age 36 and came up with the concept of a classic children s board game while convalescing in the hospital polio ward in 1947 with numerous children sufferers, the Our cover this week, spawned in this COVID-19 era, is based ever so loosely on the game but is decidedly
not for kids. There s no Licorice Lagoon or Peppermint Forest just the hazards of a Red Tape Snarl and a Governor s Veto. The board depicts in a whimsical way the twisting path Vermont has taken toward next year s start of legalized sales of cannabis for adults.
Cannabis plant In late September and early October, harvest is almost upon us! This is a great time to remove many (but not all) of the hand-size fan leaves for increased sun and air penetration into the canopy. This gives the lower, smaller buds a chance to fatten and ripen. You want to be able to look into the center of the plant and see stems, not green leaves but be sure to keep the smaller bud-site leaves intact. Determining exactly when to cut down your plants depends on a number of variables. Every cultivar responds differently to the waning length of daylight and will finish at a different time. The most accurate way to determine your plant s ripeness is by using a jeweler s loupe (a sort of magnifying glass) to check the trichomes tiny mushroom-like glands covering the surface of your buds.