5 Things: Reporter/Mystery Author Comes To Toadstool

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1. Your weather report: Today will be mostly cloudy with a high of 51 degrees. Tonight will be clear with an overnight low of 30 degrees. This weekend cool and cloudy with showers coming in on Sunday.

2. The inside scoop. WHDH-TV Boston Channel 7 investigative reporter and award-winning mystery author Hank Phillippi Ryan will be at the Toadstoll Bookshop in Milford tonight from 7-9 p.m. to promote and autograph her first hardcover book, The Other Woman. A bestselling author of four mystery novels, Ryan has won the Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity awards. She’s also on the national board of directors of Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime.

3. Patch Fact: Did you know: Archaeological surveys show that cheese was being made from the milk of cows and goats in Mesopotamia before 6000 B.C.

4. Bonus! WMUR reports that New Hampshire has a $13.8 million surplus in the fiscal year that ended June 30. Governor John Lynch praised the state departments for controlling costs.

 5. #@&*! Nashua Patch reports that Nashua alderman will not have to pay a fine for bad behavior during meetings. The proposed legislation was tabled indefinitely.