Top stories developing across the region at the noon hour:
The largest Vermont Army National Guard deployment in history is formally under way today; Vermont Senator Jim Jeffords wants to extend heating assistance to low-income families; residents on the west end of the deteriorating Vyeless Bridge over the Connecticut River worry that it’s taking too long for repairs; lawyers for Robert Woodward’s family are appealing a federal judge’s ruling that they don’t have a case against the town of Brattleboro and the two police officers who fatally shot Woodward in 2001; a public hearing convenes on a draft proposal for dealing with applications for wind powered electricity generating sites in the state.
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