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.

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.

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.

A proposal related to a top flood-relief project for Waterbury gets a second committee hearing on Thursday at the State House.

Vermont State Police are investigating a hit-and-run incident involving vehicles at the State Office Complex in Waterbury. 

Wind damage to electric transmission equipment in Waterbury Center led to a power outage Tuesday night that had more than 1,500 customers in the dark for several hours. 

Crossett Brook Middle School in Duxbury was closed on Thursday and remains closed today as cleanup crews work and school officials assess damage from the second major flooding event in less than eight months.