Top stories developing across the region at the noon hour:
Plans are firming up for some major retail development in St. Albans; historian and human rights scholar Michael Ignatieff delivers a speech on how democracies respond to terrorism; drivers in Rutland may soon see the blue lights of police vehicles flashing from motorcycles; a Hanover doctor talks about his work building roads, and unofficially supporting orphanages in Afghanistan.
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