Top stories developing across the region at the noon hour:
This evening at the Labor Hall in Barre the second gubernatorial debate of this election season will be held, and it will concentrate on wages and jobs; a school district that covers much of southwestern Vermont is clamping down on student use of cell phones and pagers; the electric utility that runs Vermont’s only commercial wind energy project says changes to wind energy rules could doom a big expansion; a day-long conference at the statehouse looks at biodiesel energy.
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