Top stories developing across the region at the noon hour:
Today is the filing deadline for major party candidates to get their names on the ballot for the September primary; a Sandgate woman is seeking the Republican nomination for attorney general; some Vermont communities are worried about landowners who have failed to file homestead declaration forms; a Londonderry woman has been ordered by a court to resume paying restitution to a school she was accused of defrauding three years ago; the Vermont Alliance of Independent Country Stores is trying to protect the future of the traditional country store.
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