Another round of rabies vaccines for wildlife will be distributed around Vermont starting on Aug. 1, according to the Vermont Department of Health.

No one was seriously hurt on Monday morning in a head-on crash involving two commercial dump trucks and a Ford pickup on Vermont Route 100 in Waterbury Center, according to state investigators.

Project Harmony International’s Youth Ambassadors Africa Program hosts 65 students and 10 mentors from Africa in Vermont from July 10 to July 28.

MONTPELIER — Four Democrats are running for three seats looking to represent Washington County and the towns of Braintree, Orange and Stowe in the Vermont Senate.

Vermont State Police are seeking help from the public in two cases from Duxbury: locating a missing 74-year-old man and identifying two trespassers who reportedly entered an occupied home.

Recent reports from Vermont State Police in and around Waterbury include credit'/debit cards reported stolen, crashes including an e-bike & a Subaru, and a driver caught at 111 mph on I-89.

Vermont’s three contenders for the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor will meet for a candidate forum with Vermont Public on Tuesday at noon.

Warren resident Rin Merrick has lived in bear country long enough to know the rules: don’t leave food outside, secure the trash and lock the car. But one night last month, exhausted from work, she forgot that last step. Story from The Valley Reporter.

The Vermont Departments of Health and Environmental Conservation have issued an air quality alert for Saturday, July 18, beginning at 6 a.m. and running through 11 p.m. for all counties in Vermont due to wildfire smoke from Canada. 

After more than five months of being out of order, the elevator in the Green Mountain Seminary apartment complex has been fixed, the building’s owner said Thursday. 

A recent University of Vermont study found that natural causes, including invasive insects, are killing more trees than logging in the Northeast.

Waterbury’s municipal offices will resume being open to the public five days a week starting on Monday, July 13. The move follows the hiring of a new assistant town clerk, Myria McNally, who joined the town staff last week.

The office of Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark announced this week that a former Waterbury resident has been sentenced in state court after pleading guilty to two felony child sex abuse charges.

An out-of-order elevator since February in the three-story 16-unit Seminary Apartments in Waterbury Center is frustrating residents, some of whom are elderly or disabled. Property managers at Downstreet Housing & Community Development complain of ever-shifting deadlines for a fix by the elevator service company.

Early voting ahead of the Aug. 11 state primary election is now underway across Vermont, and state and local elections officials want voters to know their options to cast their ballots.

There are a few new faces at the Waterbury Public Library. The two newest members of the library’s staff are Carolyn Picazio, the new library director, and Shelby Gagne, the new youth librarian.

With a unanimous vote, the Waterbury Select Board on Tuesday approved a three-year contract to hire a new municipal manager with a start date in August.

For the second year in a row, Waterbury residents and visitors alike enjoyed a sunny summer afternoon for the Not Quite Independence Day celebration on Saturday. Story and photo gallery here.