Top stories developing across the region at the noon hour:
Pownal voters have approved a U.S. Forest Service plan to buy 3,700 acres of land in town; a controversial plan to establish a new Regional Technical Academy has been rejected by voters in 23 towns; in New Hampshire, Democratic challenger John Lynch unseated first-term Republican Governor Craig Benson; VPR’s Bob Kinzel assesses Vermont election results; the Food and Drug Administration has postponed its response to Vermont’s first-in-the-nation lawsuit over the re-importation of prescription drugs from Canada until November 30.
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