A Waterbury man is facing charges of reckless endangerment and giving false information to police after an incident Friday morning where Vermont State Police said he admitted to firing an AR-15 rifle from the porch of his home on U.S. Route 2. 

With a unanimous vote on Monday, the Waterbury Select Board hired the town’s first new municipal manager in over three decades. 

The master-planning effort underway to map out the future of two popular recreation areas in Waterbury captured public attention last week as dozens of community members turned out to speak up for what they hope to see included.

The hiring process for Waterbury’s next municipal manager is nearly complete and the Waterbury Select Board is looking to approve a contract for their top choice on Monday.

A search is underway in Waterbury Center tonight for a woman who went missing this afternoon from her home on Barnes Hill.  Vermont State Police are asking the public for any information on whether anyone has seen Rachel Laundon, 44, who went missing from her home shortly before 5 p.m. 

Waterbury officials working on hiring a new municipal manager say they have reached consensus on which of the three finalists they would like to hire, but they have only identified him as Candidate #22. The process now moves to background and reference checks.

The final day for the Waterbury Farmers Market drew a crowd but it wasn’t all for the farm-fresh veggies, handmade craft items, food, or even the annual Sunzilla sunflower contest. The longest line stretched across Rusty Parker Memorial Park as dozens of people queued up for the newest COVID-19 booster vaccine. 

More than 50 local residents turned out to hear about a new proposal to build about two dozen apartments in a three-story building on the site of the former town offices on South Main Street. The meeting focused on the potential new project with a substantial discussion of the tight housing market.

The search for Waterbury’s next municipal manager is down to three finalists invited for in-person interviews on Wednesday, but the committee overseeing the recruiting effort does not plan to share the names of the candidates just yet. 

Town officials in Bolton and staff from the Green Mountain Club are looking to the public to help solve a vexing and unhealthy situation along a popular trail beside Duxbury Road and the Winooski River. 

With just over 10 weeks to go before the Nov. 8 General Election, Vermonters are reminded to be sure their snail-mail addresses are up to date on their voter registration information. 

A mishap along the VTrans road construction project on Route 2 was the cause of a town-wide outage of internet and phone service for Comcast customers recently in Waterbury. 

A century-old home in Duxbury gave two dozen local firefighters intense firsthand training recently when they held a controlled burn exercise on one of the hottest Saturdays of the summer. 

Out of a field of 31 applicants to be Waterbury’s next municipal manager, town officials this week planned to interview seven candidates with the goal of narrowing the field to two or three finalists.