Top stories developing across the region at the noon hour:
Both of Vermont’s U.S. senators, the state’s only congressman, the candidates for governor and the candidates for lieutenant governor are all making public appearances today as momentum builds up in the 2004 general election; federal prosecutors don’t want the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the appeal of a man accused of killing a North Clarendon woman; Burlington considers a charter change that would allow the city to borrow money to pay for school construction projects; the Coventry Select Board holds a meeting Thursday to review how the town and state handled the Phish concert earlier this summer.
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