Top stories developing across the region at the noon hour:
The planned test burning of tires in Ticonderoga New York is still an issue across the lake in Vermont; a retired ambassador talks about stresses between the U.S. and the U.N.; Vermont farmers opposed to the use of genetically engineered crops took their complaints to the Agency of Agriculture this morning; The Vermont Campus Greening Conference is underway at UVM.
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