Top stories developing across the region at the noon hour:
Seven people spend an hour and half stuck in an elevator at the Bennington Battle Monument; The Department of Employment and Training and the Department of Labor and Industry officially merged on July 1, creating the Department of Labor; a new program at the Vermont State Colleges allows high school students to take a free “Introduction to College Studies” course at any of the campuses; a family in Jamaica offers a reward for help in finding a pet parakeet that speaks Hungarian.
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