Top stories developing across the region at the noon hour:
Governor Jim Douglas signs a new law on mercury pollution; former House Speaker Walter Freed rethinks his retirement from politics now that a U.S. Senate seat and a U.S House seat will be open next year; an eagle breeding program enters its second year; the Fairbanks Museum in St. Johnsbury has been home to two stuffed Ivory-billed woodpeckers for more than 100 years.
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