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. 

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.  

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 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.

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.

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.