Top stories developing across the region at the noon hour:
Vermont receives more than $11 million in federal funding to help low income families heat their homes; the state’s ski resort areas hope for a cold winter, not a mild one; Rockingham votes in favor of purchasing of a hydro-electric dam in Bellows Falls; seven undocumented workers in Brattleboro face deportation.
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