Top stories developing across the region at the noon hour:
Vermont’s biggest hospital and its nurses union have restructured the final year of their contract; one of Brattleboro’s largest employers will not be emerging from bankruptcy later this month as hoped; Senator Patrick Leahy and Senator John Cornine are lauded for a bill that would strengthen the Federal Freedom of Information Act; the Equinox Hotel in Manchester tries to get state environmental officials to close a popular hiking trail.
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