Road crews have seen one of the busiest mud seasons in memory. While conditions are not back to normal yet, all roads were open and drivable by the end of the week.

The Waterbury Select Board last week chose new officers, decided to hang the inclusion banner indefinitely, and took the first steps toward finding a new town manager for the first time in more than 30 years. 

The Waterbury Select Board meets for the first time since the Town Meeting Day election with a packed agenda that reads like a blueprint for the work it will take on for much of the rest of the year. 

It was barely a week ago when winter landed nearly a foot of snow across the Green Mountains, only to be followed by mild temperatures that have ushered in what many are calling the worst mud season in recent memory. 

The banner posts near the town offices on Wednesday were empty as the town inclusion banner which has hung since December was removed following Town Meeting Day last week. 

When Chris Neville began his new job as co-principal at Waterbury’s pre-K-through-grade-4 school last July, the first meeting on his calendar was about the school’s new name, Brookside Primary School. Nearly eight months later, students will return from winter break next week to see the new name in place above the school’s center building entrance.

Although state officials are giving schools a green light to return from February break and relax indoor masking rules, students and staff in Harwood district schools will not see any changes before March 14, according to school officials. 

Nighttime quiet was disturbed this week when the telltale rumbling of F-35 aircraft filled the air over Vermont in the wee hours of Wednesday morning.