Here are the top stories at the noon hour.
In Brattleboro, renewed calls for a civil commission to oversee the police department, after officers used Tasers on protesters; remembering flutist and composer Louis Moyse, who has died at 94; Vermont utility regulators say they’re going to look closely at plans by Verizon Wireless to buy Unicel. Vermont State Police barracks around the state will be holding open houses in the coming months to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the force. Judging for a national competition gets under way within the hour in Burlington.