Top stories developing across the region at the noon hour:
The Vermont Legislature prepares to adjourn today; Construction started this week for a Lowe’s Home Center in South Burlington while two separate appeals that could stop the work are pending; the town of Plymouth has decided to keep its tiny elementary school open after all; every week we ask Melinda Wittstock of the Capitol Hill news bureau in Washington about the activities of the Vermont Congressional delegation; the town of Chester will decline an offer to sell its Civil War-era cannon for $10,000.
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