Top stories developing across the region at the noon hour:
The Vermont Legislature is disposing of a long list of pending bills at a brisk pace; some Vermonters who are unhappy with policy in Iraq, will gather at Goddard College this weekend for a conference on how to change things; a Brookline Elementary School teacher has been barred from teaching in Vermont; Fridays check-in on Vermont’s congressional delegation; Senator Patrick Leahy speaks at the annual meeting of the Vermont Trial Lawyers’ Association.
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