Top stories developing across the region at the noon hour:
some military families ask the governor to halt further deployments; flu season arrives, in New Hampshire, but not in Vermont; the holiday shopping season opened with “Black Friday” on the morning after Thanksgiving; Sugarbush Resort has a new set of plans for a redevelopment at the base of Lincoln Peak; new rules for licensing lawyers could promote competition among law firms in northern New England; a debate emerges about regulations governing the state’s annual deer hunts.
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