Top stories developing across the region at the noon hour:
Fifty Vermont Army National Guard soldiers are returning from Afghanistan today; James Haslam, director of the Vermont Workers’ Center in Montpelier, discusses new employment figures; recap of the Republican National Convention; a published report says that retiring state Senator John Bloomer has applied for the vacancy on the Vermont Supreme Court; a Corinth man who was jailed because of repeated problems with his marauding goats has been freed.
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