Here are the top stories at the noon hour.
Some of Vermont’s emergency medical technicians will vote next month on forming a union; an icon of the farm workers rights movement brings her fight for immigration rights to Burlington; experts say Vermonters will feel the effects of the country’s population growth even though only 623,000 people live here; the U.S. Census says Grand Isle is the fastest growing county in the state in terms of percentage growth; there’s a local echo of the widely condemned football brawl on Saturday in Miami.