Top stories developing across the region at the noon hour:
Flu clinics are being held around the state today in an effort to get a limited supply of flu vaccines to high risk adults; the Central Vermont Medical Center in Berlin has state permission for an $18.5 million expansion; tomorrow in Northfield, 600 Vermont Army National Guard members will muster for a year-long deployment to the Middle East; a Bennington woman is urging her neighbors to get up before dawn tomorrow to help send off the troops; Governor Jim Douglas leaves the Republican Governors’ Association’s meeting in New Orleans today.
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