Top stories developing across the region at the noon hour:
The House prepares to vote on a drug re-importation bill that the Democratic leadership wants to have before the governor by May; Bennington’s new zoning by-law that limits the size of retail development is getting its first test; a poll that shows Republican Governor George Pataki losing by wide margins in a re-election match-up against Attorney General Eliot Spitzer; the family of a Dartmouth College student who suffered serious head injuries in a skiing accident last year wants the institution to mandate the use of helmets for all skiers at the college-owned ski area; the air temperature at the top of Mount Washington set new records, at 42 degrees yesterday and 33 this morning.
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