Top stories developing across the region at the noon hour:
UNICEL is making a $45 million improvement in its Vermont networks; 19 communities will vote on Town Meeting Day on whether the state should work toward a universal health care system; a skier has died at Stowe while making an extreme-skiing movie; Dummerston’s Will Ackerman won a Grammy; Howard Dean is the topic of the latest argument between New York’s Republican and Democratic party state chairmen.
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