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.
Dr. Levine: Elders getting COVID-19 vaccines ‘helps us look ahead with hope’
Waterbury and Stowe each logged five new COVID-19 cases in the past week while thousands of older Vermonters have made appointments to get their first dose of the vaccine.
Vermont native charged with spreading misinformation, impeding right to vote
Prominent far-right Twitter troll Douglass Mackey, a Vermont native known online as “Ricky Vaughn,” was arrested Wednesday in West Palm Beach, Fla. He was charged with conspiring in a misinformation campaign aimed at Black voters during the 2016 presidential election.
Keeping a winter tradition: Mushing at Little River with October Siberians
Winter recreation is popular in Waterbury but a recent search for something beyond the ever-popular skiing, ice skating and sledding led to Little River State Park to see a niche sport that’s centuries old. This is the sport of dog sledding, otherwise known as mushing.
Fire at Stowe’s Trapp Lodge under investigation; admitted arsonist charged in federal court
Investigators are working to determine the cause of yet another pair of fires in Stowe just as the man who has admitted to setting eight fires in that community has now been charged in federal court.
2021 Town Meeting Day ballot coming into focus this week
The Town Meeting Day ballot that Waterbury voters will consider will come into focus this week as town and school officials finalize budgets and various special articles, and candidates register to run for a variety of local offices.
Next up for COVID vaccine: Vermonters 75+; Waterbury’s cases climb
State officials on Friday announced plans to begin vaccinating Vermonters aged 75 and older against COVID-19 just as new Vermont Department of Health data show another significant uptick in virus cases in Waterbury in the past week.