Top stories developing across the region at the noon hour:
Vermont joins the list of states that ban the gasoline additive MTBE; a teachers’ strike forces Lake Region Union High School to close; the state invests in Green Mountain Power shares; Secretary of transportation meets with Rutland civic leaders about the city’s railyard project; Brattleboro may impose a temporary cap on the size of retail developments.
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