Here are the top stories at the noon hour.
Winter weather is expected throughout the day today with heavy snowfall this afternoon; four months after a teacher was shot and killed in a classroom, the Essex Elementary School is still is setting up a memorial scholarship to honor 56-year-old Alicia Shanks; in part one of VPR’s Year in Review: 2006, Steve Delaney looks at the elections where voters made up their minds early and were un-swayed by the most expensive advertising campaign ever conducted in Vermont