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If you're an artist or you'd like to get a little art in your life, there's a place for you in the Upper Valley: the AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon. Today we meet the center's director, Bente Torjusen, and talk about the center's programs and mission. She also talks about her expertise in the art of Edvard Munch, whose best known work is "The Scream." Find out more about the gallery at www.avagallery.org.

Also, we hear from Peter Egelston, founder and owner of Smuttynose Brewing and the Portsmouth Brewery, whose Robust Porter won a gold medal at the Great American Beer Festival.

As New Hampshire enters its fifth year of wrangling over how to pay for public schools, a leading business group says the state is footing too much of the bill for education. The Business and Industry Association or BIA says it?s working on a plan to cut the state?s share by as much as a third. But critics say that would leave some towns struggling to pay for schools. NHPR?s Trish Anderton reports.