Newscast: Monday, Oct. 8, 2012, 12:04 p.m.

Gov. Peter Shumlin is announcing at this hour the award of downtown business tax credits. Homeowners also continue to recover from Tropical Storm Irene all these months later. The owner of two dams on the Connecticut River is suing the town of Barnet. The Republicans seeking Vermont’s two top state offices both support a moratorium on development of large-scale wind towers on the state’s mountaintops.