Here are the top stories at the noon hour.
Thousands of people are still without power after an expected snowstorm brought mostly freezing rain instead; Harry Belafonte speaks about Martin Luther King’s legacy at Dartmouth College; Verizon Communications announced today it’s spinning off its local exchange assets to shareholders Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine; People in Essex will get a chance tonight to ask officials questions about a proposed merger between Essex and Essex Junction before the issue goes before voters again on January 23rd.