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Hope you enjoyed the holiday. Now it's time to get back to work, same as the Boone Town Council. Meeting Wednesday at 9am to hand the hellbender mural $10,500 and a bigger wall before the taggers get there first. Go watch it happen. Better yet, go with something to say. Check the agenda out yourself.
We also dropped our piece on Recess's decade-long push to keep skating culture alive in Boone, JP Pardy leading the charge. $100,000 raised by the shop and its riders with steady support from the Town of Boone the whole way.
◆ Book of the Week · with Huzzah Books
Roses in the Snow
Charlie Straightarrow
A 1968 poetry chapbook from a press called The Flying Titanic Airline Press. We looked. There is no other trace of that press, or of the poet, anywhere online. Not a bio, not a review, not a second copy for sale. Just this one, sitting in a shop on Clement Street.
That's the whole case for it. If you've ever wanted to own a piece of paper that the internet has completely forgotten, here it is.
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🌘 Waning Crescent · 19% lit
Near-new moon — the darkest skies of the month for the Milky Way and meteors.
Sky's truly dark after 9:12 PM.
◆ NASA's photo today: Hubble: Decagon Around Saturn's South Pole →
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