Top stories developing across the region at the noon hour:
The Agency of Natural Resources secretary plans to leave Douglas administration; the chair of the Senate Finance committee comments on a proposal to help low-income Vermonters pay their electric and natural gas bills; the Chittenden County Senate delegation calls on VELCO to bury a proposed high-voltage power line in Shelburne; Vermont’s agriculture secretary returns from a successful trade mission to Cuba; Killington is again the first ski resort in the east to open for the season.
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