Midday Report: June 23, 2006

There’s still a chance that Congress could provide financial relief to Vermont farmers; a look at Vermont Life Magazine during its sixtieth anniversary year; a rubber factory in Brattleboro that manufactures elastic products plans to close within 18 months; the Associated Press has announced a replacement for veteran Vermont correspondent Chris Graf, who was fired in March; hundreds of re-enactors are gathering at a New York historic site across the Lake Champlain narrows from Vermont for an event that’s part of the national commemoration of the 250th Anniversary of the French and Indian War.