Top stories developing across the region at the noon hour:
The Omya Corporation has decided to abandon a controversial plan to develop a large quarry in Danby; Senator Patrick Leahy expresses fears that there aren’t enough qualified translators to decipher intercepted messages that could prevent a terrorist attack; Vermont Law School inaugurates its new president, Geoffrey Shields; Eric Schlosser, the author of “Fast Food Nation,” speaks at Champlain College; Carol Moseley Braun speaks at Dartmouth College.
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