Top stories developing across the region at the noon hour:
Funeral services are planned for this afternoon in Orleans for Sergeant Jesse Strong, the Marine from Albany killed in Iraq last week; Senator Jim Jeffords was among the most vocal of lawmakers appearing on Thursday at the FDR memorial to oppose President Bush’s plans for privatizing portions of Social Security; the president of the Unitarian Universalist Association, the Reverend William Sinkford, will be preaching in Burlington this weekend; a mating pair of peregrine falcons has been hunting pigeons in downtown Rutland.
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