VPR Newscast: Tuesday, April 17, 2012, 12:04 p.m.

Dartmouth College has appointed an interim president to fill in for Jim Yong Kim, who was appointed World Bank president yesterday. The Air Force has scheduled a meeting next month in South Burlington on its proposal to base new fighter jets at the Vermont Air National Guard base. Vermont’s Long Term Disaster Recovery Group has begun to distribute some of the millions of dollars that it’s collected to help in Tropical Storm Irene recovery. After meeting with state environmental representatives, town officials in Eden have decided solar makes sense at the site of an abandoned asbestos mine.