Harwood Union boys hockey coach cited for DUI-2 will be allowed to coach championship
After being stopped by Vermont State Police on Route 100 in Duxbury on Sunday, Harwood Union High School boy's hockey coach Shawn Thompson is due in court next month to face a charge of Driving Under the Influence-second offense, state police said. The incident, however, won’t prevent him from coaching the D-II state championship game on Wednesday.
Waterbury man facing charges after incident at Blush Hill boat launch
A Waterbury man is facing multiple charges after an incident last weekend at the Waterbury Reservoir boat launch on Blush Hill Road.
Select board, child care center reach out-of-court settlement in tax appeal
In 2011, Tropical Storm Irene flooded Waterbury, causing widespread damage to downtown Waterbury. Irene displaced the community’s largest child care center and preschool, Hunger Mountain Children’s Center, from the building it had rented from the state of Vermont for more than 30 years before the storm.
On the eve of her 110th birthday, Florilla Ames celebrates surviving two pandemics
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.
Supreme Court upholds convictions in deadly 2016 wrong-way crash
The Vermont Supreme Court has upheld the conviction of the wrong-way driver who killed five area teens on Interstate 89 in October 2016.
Sunday night meteor explodes over Vermont
Just after 5:30 p.m. on Sunday, Nicole Roscioli and her two daughters were exiting their car at a friend’s house in Duxbury when she and her youngest, Avalene, spotted a mysterious object coasting over the evening Vermont sky.
Supreme Court upholds conviction in deadly 2016 wrong-way crash
The Vermont Supreme Court has upheld the conviction of the wrong-way driver who killed five area teens on Interstate 89 in October 2016.
From Harwood to NASA: Emmy Kelly’s work on the 2020 Mars rover
When NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory launched the Mars rover, Curiosity, on November 26, 2011, Harwood Union High School graduate and Fayston resident Emmy Kelly, who was 14 at the time, stayed up until the wee hours of the morning to watch it land.
Planners, select board to try again after false start on interim downtown zoning
Waterbury is one step closer to tackling its comprehensive zoning reforms after a contentious meeting between the town select board and planning commission recently concluded with agreement on a path forward.
Master of the thriller, author Dan Brown visits CLiF’s ‘Book Group for Grown-ups’
Author Dan Brown has written a lot about religion. He finds God in the invisible strings tying humanity together. The COVID-19 pandemic, he says, has both tightened those connections and stretched them to their limits — but whatever else it's done, it's made for some fine writing time.
Old Center Cemetery damaged in suspected DUI crash
A Burlington woman was unhurt but police cited her for Driving Under the Influence early Saturday morning after she crashed her vehicle into the Old Center Cemetery along Vermont Route 100 in Waterbury Center, damaging the cemetery fence and a number of gravestones.
Brooklyn woman injured in snowmobile crash in Waterbury
A Brooklyn, N.Y., woman was taken to UVM Medical Center on Friday with injuries she sustained in a snowmobile crash on a trail in Waterbury, according to Vermont State Police.
Troopers responded along with Stowe Mountain Rescue to a Vermont Association of Snow Travelers (VAST) trail in the Cotton Brook section of Waterbury near the town line with Stowe.
Middlesex man dies in snowmobile crash in Waterbury Center Sunday
Vermont State Police say a Middlesex man died on a trail in Waterbury Center on Sunday when the snowmobile he was riding on crashed into a tree.
Vermont space guides host to watch party for Mars rover landing
At 2:30 p.m. on Feb. 18, after an eight month journey, NASA’s Perseverance Rover will attempt to land on Mars.
Old rules, new uses: Waterbury looks to interim zoning downtown
As the three-year effort to rewrite Waterbury’s zoning regulations continues at a snail’s pace, town officials are looking for a way to usher in new development projects in the downtown that don’t meet the outdated rules.
State officials: Don’t let Super Bowl cause a super COVID-19 setback
State officials on Friday shared news of vaccine progress with the oldest Vermonters and gave the go-ahead for school and youth indoor sports to begin competitions.
Ken Squier continues to recover from COVID-19
More than two months into his battle with COVID-19, WDEV Radio’s Ken Squier continues to recover at a rehabilitation center in Berlin.
Gabon to the Green Mountains: Minter shares his personal Black history
In an intimate kickoff to Black History Month, one local man has decided to share his own personal history. On Monday, Feb. 1, activist Maroni Minter took to Facebook Live to share his story of growing up as a biracial man in Africa and eventually moving to the predominantly white state of Vermont.
Pandemic puts everything on the Town Meeting Day ballot
Several contested elections, a question on legal weed commerce in Waterbury, a budget requiring taxes be set at a rate below what voters backed in 2020, and 25 separate requests to fund nonprofit organizations and social service agencies.
Rare snow rollers strike a nostalgic chord
On the morning of January 17, Duxbury resident Donna Constant awoke to a peppering of large natural snowballs scattered across a neighboring field.