🌱 Chateau $1.2M + What Bird? Ask Merlin + Miracle COVID Antibody

Hey, everybody. I'm here with your fresh copy of the Manchester Daily, with everything you need to know about the Queen City today. Here we go.

• Chateau sold for $12M.
• What's that bird? Ask Merlin.
• New COVID antibody takes out all known COVID-19 variants.

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First, today's weather:

Sunny and cooler. High: 67 Low: 50.

Here are the top stories today in Manchester:

1. What's happening at the former Chateau Restaurant on Hanover Street? The now vacant building has just sold for $1.2 million. At its peak, the once elegant restaurant with rounded booths and chandeliers was known for hosting politicians that came through town, like Ronald Reagan, Al Gore and the Clintons. The building on 201 Hanover St. was most recently the Veranda Martini Bar and Grille, but the restaurant closed in August 2017. The building has been vacant until it was purchased by 201 Hanover Street LLC, managed by Fakhar Ud Din. "Ud Din said his group hopes to open a restaurant at the location, but no plans have been finalized yet." (Subscription/The Union Leader)
2. Birds are migrating through the Queen City as the seasons change, and there's an app that can help you quickly identify bird travelers that stop in your yard. The app is called Merlin, and Cheryl Kimball wrote in her recent Union Leader Nature Talks article, "I have finally downloaded the Merlin app (from the Cornell Lab) on both my (Android) phone and my iPad. I have just started using it and I can see what all the excitement is about!" Kimball marveled how the Merlin app makes it easy to quickly identify birds you see or hear using “Get Photo ID” or “Sound ID.” She wrote, "While sitting in the backyard the other day watching our friend the catbird, listening to him meow and meowing back to him, I decided to click on Merlin’s sound ID just for fun. Almost immediately 'Gray Catbird' popped up. How cool is that!" It sounds pretty cool to me. (Subscription/The Union Leader)
3. Scientists have discovered an antibody "that can take out all known COVID-19 variants." That sounds amazing, but what does it mean for COVID-19? Researchers said they hope to create a new vaccine using the antibody, but right now, it was only tested in mice — so it may be a while before the treatment is available in Manchester. "This is very early-stage proof-of-concept work to illustrate that broadly neutralizing antibodies can be generated using a mouse model," said Amesh A. Adalja, M.D., infectious disease expert and senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. He noted that in the future, the research could become the basis of new monoclonal antibody products as well as a vaccine. (WMUR)

Today in Manchester:

• Family Storytime — Manchester City Library (10 a.m.)
• Simplifying Medicare — Offered by OLLI at Granite State College (1 p.m.)
• Brett Dennen: So Much More Summer Tour (7:30 p.m.)

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— Paula Constance

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