Top stories developing across the region at the noon hour:
Two Vermont same-sex parents whose families are featured in a PBS children’s program are upset the network won’t distribute the show; the Senate Judiciary Committee is likely to vote to confirm Paul Reiber as chief justice of the Vermont Supreme Court; a new tourism report underscores how vital tourism is throughout Vermont; a new animal identification system is being used to track animals with potentially dangerous diseases; Vermont Public Interest Research Group issues a report on the threat genetically modified seeds pose to organic farming.
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