Waterbury’s Edward Farrar Utility District recently was recognized as having some of the best-tasting water in Vermont, while its annual meeting and election captured the attention of only a handful of its residents. 

At the annual meeting of the Fairmount Cemetery Association in May 1939, Bob Haseltine Jr. was appointed as the official caretaker. Nine years later, he was buried in the back row.

Two men from Springfield, Massachusetts, who are charged in state court in a drug-debt homicide case in Waterbury last fall, have now been indicted by federal authorities as part of a major drug trafficking conspiracy based in Vermont.

The season’s first two road construction projects are getting a start this week on Kneeland Flats and Perry Hill roads in Waterbury Center. 

Voters in Waterbury’s Edward Farrar Utility District have their annual meeting and election this Wednesday, May 14. Early voting in the election is available now with all other business decided at the in-person meeting.

Despite a soggy afternoon on Green Up Day, volunteers around Waterbury managed to clean up along every main street in town, easily filling more than 300 bags with trash. But large dumped items pushed the overall haul to a new record level.  

On a recent Tuesday evening, about 60 people gathered in the gym at Brookside Primary School to listen to Ethan Tapper, a forester and author of “How to Love a Forest: The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World.”

If you see or hear low-flying aircraft overhead in the coming days, there’s a good chance they are special flights dropping rabies vaccine bait to help combat rising rabies rates in Vermont wildlife.

That fast-approaching season is not lost on advocates for wake boat-free lakes. Alongside representatives from the Department of Environmental Conservation, they spent Tuesday morning in the Senate Natural Resources Committee discussing the presence of the contested craft in Vermont’s lakes.

VTrans officials will attend next week's Select Board meeting to present information about the Stowe Street bridge replacement project scheduled to begin this month with completion expected in the fall.

Stowe Police Department will have a new police chief on duty as Brooke O’Steen is set to be sworn in early Monday morning, May 5. 

A Waterbury Select Board member’s endorsement of an appointee to the Harwood School Board has prompted criticism and a call for an ethics investigation from a former select board member. 

The Waterbury Select Board approved appointments to town boards on April 21 and fine-tuned term lengths for the Housing Task Force. Its May 5 meeting will be at the Main Street fire station for a VTrans presentation on the Stowe Street bridge project this summer.

Vermont State Police say a Moretown man will face charges in state criminal court next month for furnishing alcohol to two minors on multiple occasions and sending the juveniles inappropriate electronic messages.

Local business owners and leaders joined a discussion in Stowe recently with U.S. Sen. Peter Welch about the impacts of U.S. tariffs on trade, the strained relationship with Canada, and cuts to federal government on the local economy. 

Local residents took to Waterbury’s Main Street on Saturday, holding signs and flags and waving to passersby in vehicles to send a message of concern and opposition to many of the Trump administration’s decisions since late January.

Vermont State Police are seeking help from the public in tracking down a motorcycle stolen from a home in Waterbury last week. 

Underscoring that they prefer Waterbury voters pick their own representatives to the Harwood School Board, the Waterbury Select Board last week voted to recommend two former school board appointees return to their posts for another year. 

The Duxbury Selectboard is still in need of a fifth member following last month’s election, but it’s making progress in filling other town positions, including recommending a new member to represent the community on the Harwood school board.

Federal funding cuts to libraries and museums targeted a Vermont Historical Society project to preserve local history that involved the Waterbury Historical Society. Vt. donors have now stepped up to fund the project for its first year. 

The body of an Essex man who went missing in December turned up this week in the Winooski River in Duxbury, according to Vermont State Police.

For over 25 years, Stowe ski patroller and local historian Brian Lindner has been collecting, documenting and archiving the history of the resort.

As foresters have warned since 2018, the inevitable arrival of the destructive emerald ash borer has been documented in Waterbury. 

The Waterbury Select Board tonight intends to interview four candidates for two vacant Waterbury positions on the Harwood Unified Union School District School Board.

Around the nation and across Vermont, Americans took to the streets on Saturday to peacefully demonstrate in opposition to the myriad of actions by the Trump administration since President Donald Trump took office on Jan. 20. In Montpelier, more than 5,000 gathered at the State House.

The shelters, which opened last November during a wave of evictions from Vermont’s motel voucher program, have served 36 families.

A heroic rescue that played out at a frigid pond in Cambridge in December 2023 has gotten another national recognition, this time from the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission.

The Waterbury Select Board has re-elected Alyssa Johnson and Kane Sweeney chair and vice chair; meeting times move to 6:30 p.m. beginning in April. And tonight’s meeting includes a discussion of safety at the Rt. 100-Stowe St.-Blush Hill Road intersection. 

Vermont State Police are investigating the theft of two vehicles from a property management company in Waterbury on Saturday.