Beaver activity in Duxbury has prompted the town to adopt a new policy and to explore non-lethal steps it may take to thwart the animals that may cause damage to roads and property.

Stephen Van Esen, who passed away—rather, “tipped over,” as he instructed family and friends to call it—on December 21 at age 85, moved to Vermont in 1977 after falling in love with the place while visiting for a ski trip.

A lot has happened in the last year, and few local social service organizations know that as keenly as the Waterbury Area Senior Center. But as the COVID-19 pandemic and its associated disruptions and challenges linger for almost two years, those at the center’s helm report that they are staying on course.

Sometimes, a new venture doesn’t need a business plan or even much forethought to blossom into a full-fledged operation in just a year.

The tasting room at the end of the Ben & Jerry’s factory tour has gotten real – as in, a new television reality series. 

Waterbury Ambulance Service has a lot to celebrate as it marks its 50th year and just this week took home Vermont’s Ambulance Service of the Year award from the Vermont Department of Health.

On a chilly but bright March morning, Betty Jones, 84, raps on the door of an old shingled farmhouse on Barnes Hill Road in Waterbury Center, a cheerily-wrapped bundle under her arm. Her errand is to drop in on her old friend Florilla Ames. The next day, March 17, Florilla celebrates her 110th birthday.

In a year of one bit of bad news after another, we’ll take a win wherever we can get it. For Ellen Ross of Duxbury, one of those wins came on last week’s episode of “Wait Wait...Don’t Tell Me!,” NPR’s weekly news quiz show.

A Waterbury Center man was charged with violating a Vermont statute protecting black bears that wander into human territory.

In a summer that has seen growing cases across the state of bears hanging out in human territory, state wildlife officials say the Waterbury-Stowe area has so far been the worst affected by bear scavenging.