Top stories developing across the region at the noon hour:
Three senior officials from the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission are in Vermont today, taking questions about the independent review planned at the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant; Burlington Mayor Peter Clavelle was in Boston over the weekend, encouraging other mayors to follow Burlington’s example on the question of prescription drug re-importation; in New Hampshire, water quality specialists are mounting an aggressive attack on Eurasian milfoil; an Oregon man has set a new speed hiking record for Vermont’s Long Trail, finishing the 273-mile trail in four days, thirteen hours and fifteen minutes; more….
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