Stowe Street Cafe owner Nicole Grenier was presented with Revitalizing Waterbury’s Kathy O’Dell Community Service Award at the group’s annual meeting this week. The meeting recapped RW’s ongoing intiatives.
Below are two recent announcements about service opportunities with the state’s Labor Relations Board and the ECO AmeriCorps program.
U.S. Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt., last week shared an announcement from the U.S. Department of Energy that included Unilever’s Ice Cream Manufacturing Decarbonization project has won funding from the Biden Administration’s push to decarbonize energy-intensive industries.
DeFreest Farms in Waitsfield recently closed on a land deal that uses a new federal program to promote conservation, climate resilience and recreation.
An anouncement from London last week sent ripples through the global ice cream industry all the way to Vermont and the headquarters of Ben & Jerry’s.
As the ownership transition moves forward at Radio Vermont Group in Waterbury, the stations’ General Manager Steve Cormier has stepped down.
The Waterbury-based restaurant group that launched Hen of the Wood and branched out with Prohibition Pig and Doc Ponds will add a new member to its family later this spring when it opens Gallus Handcrafted Pasta at the historic grist mill at 92 Stowe Street.
Many New Englanders choose to go south for weeks or months to escape the dark, cold days of winter. But this week, a group of 14 adventurous Vermonters are heading just about as far south as you can get – to Antarctica.
Revitalizing Waterbury’s Board of Directors recently named Jane Brown as the group’s 2023 Volunteer of the Year. Shared at the organization’s annual Volunteer Appreciation Party, the award recognizes a volunteer who has gone above and beyond their usual role over the past year.
We have compiled a transcript of the 20-min. on-air announcement of the WDEV sale, broadcast live on Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024, at 12:35 p.m. Also here is a link to the audio recording.
From a fitting on-air radio announcement last week, listeners to WDEV learned that two Vermont businessmen, handpicked by Ken Squier months before his death in November, are now poised to take ownership of the nearly century-old independent broadcasting company based in Waterbury.
The Central Vermont Economic Development Corporation recently announced its top-priority projects for 2024 and Waterbury Ambulance Service’s new station project is near the top of the list.
VermontBiz and the Vermont Chamber of Commerce have announced that Bourne’s Energy is the winner of the annual prestigious and highly anticipated Outstanding Business of the Year Award for 2023.
Nominations are now open for the Vermont Chamber of Commerce’s annual Citizen of the Year award to an outstanding Vermont figure.
On Monday morning, Dec. 18, as heavy rains that later triggered flooding soaked Central Vermont, a Vermont Chamber of Commerce event took place in Waterbury’s Pilgrim Park that included U.S. Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt.
Nearly 100 employees will be represented by the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, according to its Connecticut-based Local 371.
Zenbarn Farms owners Noah Fishman and Marlena Tucker-Fishman hope that Waterbury may soon be as well known for its cannabis as it is for its craft beer. They have taken a step towards that vision in signing an agreement to purchase the Vermont assets of Curaleaf Holdings Inc., an international cannabis company based in New York City.
Revitalizing Waterbury has announced the hiring of a new economic development director for Waterbury.
Freak Folk Bier, which opened in Waterbury in early 2022, crafts oak-fermented, mixed-culture beers. Last month, the brewery received a grant from the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation’s wastewater management program that would pay for upgrades to keep its sludge out of the waste stream.
In what has become a modern holiday tradition, today is dubbed Giving Tuesday across the nation and beyond.
MONTPELIER — The Bridge newspaper will celebrate 30 years of publication and the news media’s critical role in protecting democracy on Friday, Nov. 17, with an art auction, refreshments from local chefs, and a lively panel of local journalists.
Waterbury tourist operations saw plenty of traffic during the peak foliage weeks. Amid the onslaught of crowds and congestion, the season is crucial for local businesses to take in enough revenue to keep them viable for the rest of the year.
After owning Blackback Pub for nine of its 14 years at 1 Stowe Street, Lynn Mason and Dave Juenker have handed off the business to new owners, general manager Ehren Hill and chef Cory Swafford.
There’s a hum of creative energy coming from 40 Foundry Street, where new food and beverage businesses are coming to life in this historic building a block away from Main Street.
Waterbury’s flood-hit downtown businesses are bouncing back thanks to hard work that included numerous community volunteers. UVM Community News Service reporters Shannon Flaherty and Will Thorn filed this report.
When you’ve just bought a new business, “flood” is not a word you want to hear — or an event you want to experience — after just one month of ownership.
After several years on the market, Waterbury fine-dining stalwart Michael’s on the Hill has been sold to the owners of Stowe’s Brass Lantern Inn.
More than three years since its launch, Waterbury Roundabout is enjoying healthy readership and steadily growing support from community members. Yet financial sustainability is not on the horizon anytime soon. We have to ask: Does the community want this to continue?
Waterbury has a new reason to stake its claim as an outdoor recreation destination. Mavic, a bicycling wheel and equipment manufacturer based in France, has set up shop in Pilgrim Park to open its North American sales and service center.
In time for an author visit on Independent Bookstore Day this Saturday, Bridgeside Books has named the debut novel “The Wisdom of Winter” by Annie Selyer its 2024 One Town, One Book selection.