Here are the top stories at 7:30 a.m.:
Vermont’s commissioner of Housing and Community Affairs is leaving his post to return to the private sector; Last month, Toyota announced that it had found problems with some of the frames on its popular Tacoma trucks, and it’s made a busy time of year in Toyota service departments even busier; The owner of the Putney General Store hopes to reopen the business that was heavily damaged by fire over the weekend, but he says he doesn’t know how long it will take; Burlington Mayor Bob Kiss will try to negotiate a deal to build a new hotel near the city’s Lake Champlain waterfront.