Top stories developing across the region at the noon hour:
State officials say they expect a response from the Nuclear Regulatory Agency in Washington, to the Vermont request for a top-to-bottom engineering reliability survey; the pace of legislative decision-making has quickened at the Statehouse in Montpelier, where lawmakers are beginning to think about adjourning; recent graduates from Dartmouth College have spent the past three years teaching English on remote Pacific islands.
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