The search for Waterbury’s next town manager took a key step forward on Thursday when the Waterbury Select Board chose three finalists from five applicants it interviewed at a special meeting. 

Visitors to the town office this month may have already had a chance to meet Waterbury’s new Town Clerk Wesley Pollock. Assistant Town Clerk Beth Jones continues to serve but is eyeing retirement this summer.

A two-car crash closed Vermont Rt. 100 in Waterbury Center for several hours on Thursday afternoon and early evening as state police, emergency responders, and a Green Mountain Power crew worked at the scene. 

Vermont State Police have cited drivers for DUI in two recent separate single-vehicle crashes.

In 2011, the town’s worst flood of the century touched off the series of events that led to a wintry downtown groundbreaking in February 2025. Fifteen months later, more than 100 people gathered in the sunshine to celebrate the grand opening of Waterbury’s newest 26-unit apartment complex on South Main Street. 

Vermont State Police on Tuesday issued an update regarding a “suspicious incident” that they began investigating in Waterbury Center last week, saying the circumstances were determined not to be criminal.

The Waterbury Center Better Connections project rolls out some new safety features this week to improve vehicle, bike and pedestrian transportation in the area where Guptil Road, Maple Street and Howard Avenue converge.

BARRE — A Granite City man is accused of breaking into two gas stations, one each in Waterbury and Northfield, and a woman is accused of assisting him at one of the locations.

Downstreet Housing & Community Development will hold a Grand Opening ceremony with a ribbon cutting at the new Marsh House Apartments at 51 S. Main Street in Waterbury. The community is invited.

The Vermont Agency of Natural Resources is holding public meetings in June, seeking comments and questions regarding a new proposed rule to guide planning and managing state lands in the future. One of the meetings will be held in Waterbury on Thursday, June 4.

The Vermont Land Trust invites the community to a trail opening celebration this Thursday in Duxbury at the Pratt Refuge on Ward Hill. 

The local slate of legislative primary candidates is taking shape with first-time candidate Katarina Lisaius filing to run on the Democratic ticket for a House seat representing Waterbury, Bolton, Huntington and Buel’s Gore.

BRATTLEBORO – A Windham County man arrested on federal drug and gun charges recently is now also facing serious state charges, including a possible life sentence, after a state prosecutor filed abduction and assault charges against him, records show.

A state legislative committee last week reached a much-awaited decision to further limit which lakes in Vermont may support wakesports and the Waterbury Reservoir now falls into the category where wake boating is banned.

A Barre driver will face a DUI charge after an attempted U-turn caused a crash on Interstate 89 northbound on Sunday afternoon, according to Vermont State Police. 

What do eerie swamp monsters, evil aliens, and larger-than-life dinosaurs have in common? They all come from the mind of Stephen R. Bissette, Vermont’s new Cartoonist Laureate.

Vermont State Police responded to a wrong-way driver report along Vermont Route 100 in Stowe and Waterbury on Wednesday afternoon, eventually catching up with the vehicle when it crashed at the Berlin exit of Interstate 89.