Here are the top stories at the noon hour.
The Governor has told Rutland County its transportation projects are off the to-do list this year for lack of money; the prospects for action on property taxes and climate change this year are not bright; the towns of Whitingham and Wilmington are dropping their four-year-old lawsuit challenging Vermont’s education funding law; Vermont Emergency Management officials are continuing to monitor an ice-jam in the Winooski River that could lead to flooding in downtown Montpelier; there’s a lingering mystery in Dublin New Hampshire, just east of Keene.