Top stories developing across the region at the noon hour:
Legislative committee members and representatives of the Douglas administration are halfway through an intense look at the Vermont Department of Corrections; voters in Whitingham and Wilmington are voting today on whether to merge their school systems; town offices in Colchester are being inspected for safety problems in the wake of a fire last week at Winooski City Hall.
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