Top stories developing across the region at the noon hour:
Two hundred members of the Vermont Air National Guard return from the war; Fletcher Allen Health Care in Burlington now has state approval to build a 28-bed psychiatric facility as part of its $367 million Renaissance Project; property owners are receiving tax bills that reflect new changes in the education funding law; the Vermont Pure bottled water company has purchased two distributors; gubernatorial candidates are on the campaign trail; the legislative oversight committee on prisons spent the morning at the new Springfield prison.
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