Top stories developing across the region at the noon hour:
The Vermont National Guard expects to learn tonight or tomorrow is troops will be called to the Middle East in the next U.S. rotation; the state agency that represents utility customers is endorsing a plan to boost power at the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant; the annual meeting of the Vermont Farm Bureau begins tonight in Essex Junction; “Adopt-a-Minefield” hosts its third annual “Night of a Thousand Dinners” fundraiser.
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