For a few hours late Friday afternoon, Waterbury’s lower block of Stowe Street became the town’s living room as traffic was diverted for friends and neighbors to gather to mark an anniversary and celebrate the downtown’s decade of transformation. 

On Friday August 26, 2011, children at Hunger Mountain Children's Center on South Main Street in Waterbury helped their teachers rearrange and decorate their classrooms to prepare to switch from summer mode to preschool the following week.

There was plenty of sunshine on Wednesday when U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., paid a visit to Duxbury to address the world’s changing climate and tout renewable energy at schools. 

Phoenix Rising is one element of a celebration this week that will mark the decade of recovery, rebuilding, and community resilience following the destruction Tropical Storm Irene wrought on Waterbury in 2011. The events also will mark the completion of the three-year $21 million Main Street reconstruction project. 

Travelers along Interstate 89 last weekend likely did a double-take as a single-engine biplane experiencing engine trouble made a smooth emergency landing, touching down undamaged in a field, its pilot and passenger unhurt.

Waterbury’s small-town charm, four seasons, open spaces and vacant commercial real estate in close proximity to the state capital were a winning combination for national information technology corporation MTX Group Inc. that announced Thursday it will open a northeast regional office here.