At meetings next week, the Waterbury Select Board will consider moving ahead on a measure to create a town charter to allow the town to levy local option taxes and the Waterbury Development Review Board gets its first look at plans for a three-story apartment building at 51 S. Main Street. 

An ammonia leak in a refrigeration system inside the Ben & Jerry’s Waterbury ice cream factory on Friday temporarily halted production, sent employees home, and shut out the public for part of the weekend.

Vermont State Police are investigating what was the third break-in at the contact station at the Waterbury Center State Park late Monday night. 

Waterbury town officials are considering joining a growing number of Vermont communities in establishing a local option tax that would add to revenue collected from property taxes. Municipal Manager Tom Leitz at Monday’s Select Board meeting will give an overview of how the tax would work, how the revenue it generates could be put to use and the process needed to make this happen. 

The state Department of Labor last week released data showing Vermont with an overall unemployment rate of 1.8% for July. The U.S. Postal Service is one employer that knows the impacts of the tight labor market all too well. 

Mounting development costs to build a new ambulance station and medical offices along Route 100 in Waterbury Center have Waterbury Ambulance Service leaders eyeing a new site downtown and Copley Hospital officials asking the state to revise its project approval. 

A Massachusetts gymnastics coach pleaded not guilty in Vermont state court this week to a charge alleging that he recorded images of children in a bathroom at a Waterbury gymnastics center in July.