Top stories developing across the region at the noon hour:
Vermont senators Jim Jeffords and Patrick Leahy vote against ending debate on a controversial Bush nominee; Vermont Yankee is among the two dozen nuclear power plants across the country that don’t have backup emergency sirens; Fairlee and Brookfield become designated “village centers”; some Rockingham citizens try to block the purchase of a hydro-electric dam; a former Springfield machine tool plant may be sold to a private developer.
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