Here are the top stories at 7:30 a.m.:
Senator Patrick Leahy is at the center of an effort to resolve the differences between the House and Senate farm bills; A food pantry in Freedom is chipping in to help workers at the closing paper mill in Groveton; School officials in Essex, Vermont have removed a security system from a school where a shooting occurred last year; Maine utility regulators have postponed today’s hearing on the proposed FairPoint-Verizon sale until early next year.