🌱 How Rye scientists explain this one-in-50-million “split-color” lobster

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In today's newsletter:

• How Rye scientists explain this one-in-50-million “split-color” lobster

Also on today's calendar: Great Bay Food Truck Festival.

Today's riddle: Knock-knock! Who’s there? Irish. Irish who? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Tuesday: Increasingly windy, with a high of 73 and low of 57 degrees.
• Wednesday: A couple of afternoon showers, temps: high: 65, low: 52.
• Thursday: Breezy with a shower, with a high of 64 and low of 42 degrees.

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📰 News we're reading

• Rare "Spit-Color" Lobster Spotted by Fishermen Off Cape Cod (tomorrowsworldtoday.com) — A rare split-colored lobster found off Cape Cod is drawing attention, and experts at the Seacoast Science Center in Rye help explain how such chimeric lobsters form. While the animal will live at a Cape Cod aquarium, the Rye center’s insight highlights our local coastline’s role in understanding unusual marine life that sometimes turns up in New England waters.
   

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📸 Around Rye

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Rye

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★ Featured events ★

Saturday May 9

• Great Bay Food Truck Festival →
  Stratham Hill Park, 270 Portsmouth Ave, Stratham
  12:00 pm

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Other local events

Thursday May 7

• Hit the Decks - the Unofficial Start to Summer on the Seacoast →
  , Portsmouth
  9:00 am

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🗓 Events Nearby

Tuesday May 5

• Tech Tuesday at NHPL →
  North Hampton Public Library, 239 Atlantic Ave, North Hampton
  1:00 pm
• Junior Science: The Wonders of Water →
  Greater Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce, 6 Washington Street, Dover
  2:00 pm
• FOOD & BEVERAGE: Happy Hour at Toscana
  Greater Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce, 3 Pleasant Street, Portsmouth
  4:00 pm
• Writing Group
  Langdon Library, 328 Nimble Hill Road, Newington
  6:00 pm

Wednesday May 6

• No-cost business growth education program for small businesses and non-profit leaders accepting applications now through November 27 →
  Greater Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce, 500 Market St #16A, Portsmouth
• Nichinan Nights Happy Hour →
  Greater Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce, 15 Middle St., Portsmouth
• Play, Learn & Grow: Elite Dance & Aerial Program with Jacqui
  North Hampton Public Library, 237A Atlantic Avenue, North Hampton
  10:00 am
• Live Piano at The Rosa
  The Rosa Restaurant, 70 State Street, Portsmouth
  5:00 pm
• MUSIC Live Music Wednesdays at the Water View Grill Lounge!
  Water View Grill Lounge, 37 Bow St, Portsmouth
  6:00 pm
• Cribbage for a Cause
  WHYM Craft Pub & Brewery, 853 Lafayette Rd, Hampton
  7:00 pm

Thursday May 7

• Throwback Theater - Labyrinth (PG)
  North Hampton Public Library, 237A Atlantic Avenue, North Hampton
  2:00 pm

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• This beautiful Bobcat is one of the many living in our backyards.
  Be aware that if you let your pet outside unattended, it may be his lunch. It happened to me 2 years ago and it took less than 1 minute for one to… (Nextdoor Lagos-to-Keenan's)

• Canon Business Process Services posted a job opening for Check Clerk I in Portsmouth. Apply here.
• RDSolutions posted a job opening for Store Scanning Specialist - 51355 in Portsmouth. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Rye here.

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🗞 Nearby News

Portsmouth

• Interdimensional UFOs Property Tax Relief More: Portsmouth NH Patch Events (patch.com)
• Vote for Seacoast boys, girls Athletes of the Week for April 27-May 1 (seacoastonline.com)
• Dover SchoolCare ruling could let 89 other NH districts recoup funds (seacoastonline.com)

Hampton

• Hampton icon changes hands as Old Salt's founding family retires after 40 years (seacoastonline.com)
• Interdimensional UFOs Property Tax Relief More: North Hampton NH Patch Events (patch.com)

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Irish you a happy St. Patrick’s Day! (Thank you Eileen C. for sending it in!)
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