Bolton man rescued from raging brook; couple searching for remains of missing dog
Multiple rescue crews converged on Joiner Brook in Bolton Friday afternoon for a water rescue that brought a local man to safety but turned up no sign of the dog he was attempting to retrieve when he fell into raging waters.
Vermont State Police pledges to advance women in policing
The Vermont State Police this week was the first statewide law enforcement agency in the country to sign on to what’s being called the 30x30 Pledge -- a series of low- and no-cost actions that police agencies can take to improve the representation and experiences of women in law enforcement.
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.
Town Meeting Day roundup: Mad River Valley
Moretown rejects a bid to consider leaving the Harwood Union school district.; Waitsfield opts-in to cannabis marketplace; and other details in Town Meeting summaries from neighboring communities in the Mad River Valley.
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.
Waterbury approves budget, re-elects incumbents, opts-in to legal weed
Waterbury voters approved everything on their Town Meeting Day ballot on Tuesday including a $5.2 million budget and a question on whether the town should “opt-in” to allow for legal recreational cannabis cultivation, processing, and retail as the state establishes that marketplace in the coming months.
Duxbury opts-in to legal weed, narrowly approves $250k for highway garage
Duxbury’s vote over whether to fix the town highway garage was closer than the decision that voters made Tuesday to opt-in to the legal cannabis marketplace coming together in Vermont in the next year or so.
Voters approve school budget questions, elect three new members
After voting twice on the school budget in 2020, voters in the six towns of the Harwood Unified Union School District on Tuesday took care of business on the first try this year.
Town Meeting report from Reps. Wood and Stevens
If there had been an in-person town meeting this year, you would have seen state Reps. Theresa Wood and Tom Stevens in person and heard them talk about what they are up to and following at the State House.
People at the polls
Town Meeting Day may not have had many in-person meetings, but many voters showed up in person to vote or just drop off their ballots at their polling places.
Town Meeting Election Results (Tues. evening)
Waterbury election results are in with incumbents Mark Frier and Katie Martin winning re-election to one-year terms and Dani Kehlmann winning the three-year term.
Select board candidates on the issues
As Town Meeting Day nears, Waterbury Roundabout caught up with the six candidates for Waterbury Select Board. We asked them to tell voters a little about themselves and share their thoughts on some of the top issues they are likely to encounter if elected. Here are their answers.
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.