Top stories developing across the region at the noon hour:
Vermont Congressman Bernie Sanders was joined this morning by Lieutenant Governor Brian Dubie in a news conference on wind energy; Verizon Wireless is refusing to let a Newport church out of a contract to install communications equipment in the church’s steeple; officials from Radio Free Brattleboro are due in court Monday to hear a complaint brought by the Federal Communications Commission; the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee reviews Peter Hall’s nomination; Vermont’s professor of the year is Patricia Siplon of St. Michael’s College.
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