Top stories developing across the region at the noon hour:
Pope John Paul the Second names Monsignor Salvatore Matano of the Diocese of Providence, Rhode Island, to become the next bishop of Vermont Catholic diocese; there was a small earthquake along the Canadian border in northern New York last night; Eric Davis says there is a ripple effect from resolutions taken up at Town Meeting; wiring is blamed for a fire in Brattleboro that left three people homeless.
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