Top stories developing around the region at the noon hour:
The Vermont Water Resources Board conducts a hearing on a challenge to the stormwater runoff permit it issued for the Circumferential Highway in Chittenden County; state teachers hold their annual meeting Thursday and Friday in Essex Junction; a new poll conducted for the Concord Monitor newspaper says Howard Dean leads all Democrats in New Hampshire’s primary by 12%; the Vermont Council on Rural Development presents a forum on community development Wednesday night at St. Michael’s College.
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