Top stories developing acorss the regiong at the noon hour:
At this moment former Windham County Senator Peter Shumlin is standing at a podium in the Senate chamber of the statehouse, saying he will not be a candidate for governor; elsewhere in a busy Statehouse today there’s a conference committee meeting on environmental permit reform; a few hundred Vermont middle school students are swarming the Statehouse today as part of the eighth annual Vermont Kids Against Tobacco rally; Howard Dean is promising to forge ahead in his bid for the White House; Central Vermont Public Service says it might have to ask for a rate increase.
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