VPR Evening News October 17th, 2007

Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama becomes the first candidate
to qualify for Vermont’s presidential primary; Canadian authorities have
arrested more than 40 people at the Stanstead-Derby border; The Douglas
Administration says regulators should reject Fairpoint Communications’ bid
to buy Verizon’s phone business unless strict conditions are met; The
number of Vermont children showing up for school without the recommended
childhood immunizations has more than doubled in the past 10 years; and
commentator Howard Coffin remembers arriving at college in 1960.