The staff at the Warren School is extremely concerned about the proposed cuts to services and positions and the negative impact they will have on student learning and safety. In particular, reducing our nursing position from full-time to part-time coverage directly risks student health and is highly concerning to our staff and families.

Vermont Conservation Voters has released its Vt. Environmental Scorecard for the 2023-2024 legislative session, a tool developed to help Vermonters track legislators’ voting records on key environmental issues in the latest legislative biennium. 

As it always does, the Legislature came grinding to an end with a final vote on the Fiscal Year 25 budget. This year, we gaveled out at 2:30 a.m. on Saturday, May 11. We worked long enough to miss seeing the Northern Lights when we were done!

This has been probably the busiest week our little website has seen in just over three years covering local news in and around Waterbury.

As the year winds down, we want to thank everyone who read, wrote, commented, shared our posts, sent in tips and photos, and made Waterbury Roundabout a part of your routine this year. We’re especially grateful to the readers who have chipped in with financial support.

The Good Citizen Challenge’s target audience is kids aged 18 and under. While most are too young to vote, it’s hardly too early for them to learn about what it means to be informed and engaged members of their communities and our state.

The Waterbury Area Anti-Racism Coalition calls for the Harwood Union Unified School District School Board to immediately cease in all HUUSD schools the use of restraints that restrict breathing (i.e., prone and supine restraints).

This weekend marks the 10 years since Tropical Storm Irene slammed into Vermont, causing widespread flooding and destruction including in Waterbury, Duxbury, and nearby communities. As events commemorate this milestone decade of recovery, rebuilding and resilience, we'd like to hear from readers.

It was one year ago today that WaterburyRoundabout.org went live and the phone rang with a call from Seven Days reporter and Waterbury Center resident Kevin McCallum asking what this was all about.

It’s that time of the decade again! The U.S. Constitution requires a census every 10 years, and this up-to-date population count is used to ensure that our elected representatives in the legislature are equitably apportioned across the state.

As the days grow longer and mud season unfolds and we all eagerly await the demise of this pandemic, we are thinking of how far we've come in this unusual pandemic year. Waterbury Roundabout will mark one year in early May and we're thrilled to be settling in as our community's local news source.

The recent decision by the school board to reduce a team of teachers at Harwood Union Middle School has created many questions for school staff and its local union, HUEA. Why, after proposing a budget with enough funding for this team, did half of the school board decide to do away with the team?