The Duxbury Selectboard voted on Friday to increase the proposed fiscal year 2026 budget for road crew salaries after Road Foreman Brian Gibbs said he would resign if he did not receive a 20% raise.

The Vermont Secretary of State has wrapped up the 2024 election cycle with its final report of candidates’ campaign finance disclosures.

The sole remaining structure on Little River State Park’s History Hike has a chance for new life and new purpose thanks to a proposed partnership between Vermont’s Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation and the Vermont Huts Association. 

In a busy week in the primary election campaign for the Washington-Chittenden House district, candidates met for a forum in Huntington and filed financial disclosure reports with the Secretary of State.

The five members of the Duxbury Selectboard last week unanimously approved $85,000 to repair a section of Camel’s Hump Road that was damaged when flooding once again swept through the area last month. 

Affordability was the key word among voters voicing their top concerns to the four candidates vying for the Washington-Chittenden state House district’s two seats in the upcoming primary election. More than 100 local residents gathered at the Waterbury Main Street fire station for a candidate listening session.

Vermont’s primary election season is in full swing and this year’s race for the two state representative seats in the Washington-Chittenden House district is already shaping up to be the most expensive in the district’s history. 

As it turns out, storybook weddings aren’t just for fairy tales. Sometimes they even come true in bookstores. 

The effort by state Rep. Anne Donahue of Northfield to document the graves of former Vermont State Hospital patients has run into new twists worthy of an Agatha Christie mystery. Last weekend, K-9 searchers joined her burial ground investigations in Waterbury.

A new book that delves into Vermont’s 20th-century experiment in eugenics brought people together in Waterbury last week for a presentation and discussion led by its historian and author, a state archives expert, and a local lawmaker who led the push for an official state apology. 

Friends and family of Lawrence “Lefty” Sayah will gather this Sunday afternoon at St. Leo’s Hall to celebrate and bid farewell to a beloved community member and respected public servant. Sayah passed away unexpectedly at his Randall Street home on Oct. 30. 

The Edward Farrar Utility District commissioners voted unanimously this week to appoint Mark Alberghini to fill the vacancy left by the sudden passing of Commissioner Lawrence “Lefty” Sayah on October 30. 

Visitors have until Tuesday, May 23, to see and hear the multi-media exhibition, “The Voices of St. Joseph’s Orphanage,” in the atrium of the State Office Complex in Waterbury. The presentation including audio recordings tells a story of abuse, accountability and amends from the perspectives of surviving residents of St. Joseph’s Orphanage in Burlington in the 19th and 20th centuries. 

Driven by a sense of urgency that the world was changing much faster than people could prepare for, photographer and writer Peter Miller dedicated nearly 70 years to capturing the landscapes, traditions, people, and communities of Vermont before it all faded from sight and mind. Last week, Miller’s storytelling days came to an end.