
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 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.
The annual meeting for Waterbury’s Edward Farrar Utility District, which oversees the municipal water and wastewater operations, will take place on Wednesday, May 14.
State employees working with victims say the system doesn’t work — some even tell people not to sign up. For one woman, an “unbelievable gap” led to life-altering danger.
Shoppers and workers at Waterbury’s Shaw’s supermarket got an unexpected interruption Wednesday afternoon when the store was evacuated and multiple Vermont State Police troopers arrived to investigate a bomb threat.
Gov. Phil Scott is setting his sights on programs where he believes the state can afford to cut costs.
Waterbury’s request to take ownership of a key piece of state-owned land along the Winooski River for flood-mitigation efforts gained traction in the state legislature last week.
The state Agency of Transportation says help is on the way soon to fix the ‘extreme’ road conditions rattling motorists on Rt. 100 in Duxbury.
Public Notices
The Development Review Board for the Town of Waterbury will convene a public hearing on Thursday, May 16, 2024, at 6:30 p.m.
Town of Waterbury will convene a public hearing to obtain public feedback regarding proposed updated zoning bylaws (Uniform Development Bylaws – Phase 1) on Monday, May 6th, 2024 at 7:00 p.m. in the Steele Community Room in the Municipal Center, 28 North Main Street, Waterbury, Vermont.

ROAD WORK UPDATES
Local and state road crews continue projects this week including in Duxbury where there will be paving and speed table installation on Main Street and work on a Rt. 100 bridge. Work on and adjacent to Interstate 89 north and south of Waterbury continues also.
Paving projects are scheduled for Union Street and Guptil Road in Waterbury this week. Union will be closed to through traffic and street parking Monday-Tuesday. Work continues on Interstate 89 northbound between Waterbury and Montpelier.
The newsiest Road Work Update in weeks: In Waterbury, Gregg Hill Road reopens after two months closed due to a collapsed culvert and Union Street to be closed Monday-Tuesday; paving on I-89 northbound between Montpelier and Waterbury getting underway; and a townwide road update for Duxbury.
Work is progressing on Camel's Hump Road in Duxbury slower than anticipated with bridge repairs expected to be completed this week. In Waterbury, multiple road projects are underway this week. A water/sewer line installation on Lincoln Street will mean one-lane traffic only on Wednesday and fixes are coming for the Gregg Hill 'chasm' and the Shaw Mansion 'dip.'
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.