Top stories developing across the region at the noon hour:
Associate Justice Paul Reiber is sworn in at 3 p.m.; about 500 people gathered in Brattleboro Thursday night for a meeting with the NRC; the Catamount Elementary School in Bennington is making progress toward getting off a list of underperforming schools; Vermont’s congressional delegation works on immigration reform; anti-football statements by a Dartmouth College’s dean threaten to undercut the school’s fundraising campaign.
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