Top stories developing across the region at the noon hour:
It’s likely Paul Reiber will be appointed chief justice of the Vermont Supreme Court; Governor Jim Douglas announces that Agency of Transportation Secretary Patricia McDonald will leave her post and take up a new position in the Department of Labor; Jon Borowicz, the founder of the Vermont Philharmonic Orchestra, has died in Sarasota, Florida.
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