Top stories developing across the region at the noon hour:
Rain is slowing but not depressing an expected crowd of 70,000, now arriving at the Coventry site of this weekend’s Phish concert; the remnants of two tropical storms are expected this weekend; Middlebury College’s commencement speaker for its summer language program is Edward Djerejian, a veteran diplomat fluent in five languages; two suspended VT prison superintendents have been offered state jobs in other agencies.