Pack & Send Plus at the roundabout in Waterbury officially has new owners as of Friday, Oct. 1.

For the first time since their making, the 130-year-old stained glass windows on the oldest church in Waterbury are getting restored as part of a project to maintain the historic building that has stood since 1824.

Three-day church lawn sale runs until SaturdayThe annual Fall Lawn Sale is back at Wesley United Methodist Church at 56 South Main St.

Only a few new cases of COVID-19 were reported for Waterbury and nearby communities last week after six weeks of double-digit new case counts, according to Vermont Department of Health data released last Friday, Sept. 24.

They were overhead but just barely over the treetops, impossible to miss or ignore for long. They weren’t conducting a search for a fugitive or cutting trees back from railroad tracks (that was last summer), and they weren’t from the Vermont National Guard.

Now in its second year of a pandemic that’s turned some volunteers into full-time workers, Waterbury Ambulance Service will make time on Saturday to throw itself a 50th-anniversary celebration and the community is invited.

With Main Street reconstruction now in the rear-view mirror, a survey earlier this month asked the public to share feedback on how they thought the three-year $21 million undertaking went.

BURLINGTON — A Chittenden County woman, who authorities say bought firearms and took them to New York, pleaded not guilty in U.S. District Court in Burlington on Monday to providing false information to a Waterbury gun dealer during one acquisition in March.

Although the construction bond took up the majority of the Harwood Unified Union School Board’s in-person meeting time last week, a number of updates were shared with details on back-to-school enrollment, staffing, managing COVID-19 risks and cases, and smoothing out the bus schedule.

It’s official: the Harwood Unified Union School District will hold a special election Nov. 2 on a $59.5 million bond to finance the first major construction project since the district’s six communities merged five years ago.

Passersby in downtown Waterbury have noticed work at the Waterbury Train Station recently. The project was part of Amtrak’s State of Good Repair effort to improve passenger rail facilities and bring stations and platforms into compliance with safety standards, Amtrak spokesman Jason Abrams e…

Less than a month into the new school year and principals at Harwood Union Middle and High School are contending with a social media prank gone too far.

MONTPELIER – With wood stove season rapidly approaching, the Vermont Department of Forests, Parks & Recreation has tips for choosing the best dry wood to maximize heat for your home and minimize air pollution from burning it.

WATERBURY CENTER — A South Carolina man died and a Vermont truck driver was injured in a six-vehicle crash that closed a section of Vermont Route 100 in Waterbury Center last Thursday afternoon.

The 28th Annual Waterbury Rotary Hunt for Sunzilla and The Other Green Monster didn’t disappoint this year.

The Waterbury Public Library has been selected as one of 300 libraries to participate in an American Library Association initiative to better serve small and rural communities.

Recently published census figures herald the coming Vermont Legislative redistricting saga.

Gov. Phil Scott last week signed a proclamation designating Sept. 19-25 Adult Education and Literacy Week to celebrate the accomplishments of adult learners as they gain skills and credentials necessary to move ahead in careers, further education, and job training.

MONTPELIER – From hotter days to more frequent and intense storms, Vermont’s climate patterns are clearly shifting and impacting our state. State officials this fall along with local leaders and members of the Vermont Climate Council invite the public to participate in forums to learn about …

The Oct. 2 Household Hazardous Waste Collection for the Mad River Resource Management Alliance has been canceled due to the lack of staff from the event contractors.

For the next three weekends, The Valley Players present the comedy “Noises Off” by Michael Frayne in Waitsfield.

For the next several weeks, Harwood Union’s school superintendent will be on leave with several members of the administrative team filling in to cover her responsibilities.

Five years after merging into the Harwood Unified Union School District, voters in the district’s six communities may be asked to consider a major school construction bond in a special election in November.

Saturday marked the 20 years since the terrorist attacks on the United States on Sept. 11, 2001.

Waterbury Arts Fest returned to Stowe Street and Bidwell Lane last weekend after a 2020 hiatus and one of the event’s leading organizers and champions was missing for the first time in its 19-year history.

School has opened for what is now the third academic year during a pandemic yet this one so far is full-time and in-person.

We are writing to discuss the need for a single bond vote that includes all the items that have been researched and proposed to the community. We are most intimately knowledgeable about the gym use after hours throughout the entire district because we develop the schedule for basketball for …

Once a dominant presence in downtown Waterbury, Keurig Dr. Pepper has announced that it will not be reopening its Waterbury offices and approximately 200 workers previously based here will continue to work remotely.

This spring, baseball and softball players from more than 60 little leagues across New England participated in Major League Baseball’s Pitch Hit and Run regional competitions that seek out some of the best youth players around.

Dear Editor:

To the community:

When Tropical Storm Irene washed through Waterbury, it was still three years before I would move to Vermont and the foothills of the Worcester Mountains. I cannot pretend to have a clue what the days and weeks after Irene were like, nor have I ever experienced the likes of the devastation an…

Vermont authorities are reminding parents to discuss with children the risks of improper connections with unknown adults over social media following a serious case involving a Washington County child and a high-risk registered sex offender from Massachusetts.

19th Waterbury Arts Fest set for Friday-Saturday

Although it’s not an election year, local voters may be asked to go to the polls this November to consider what would be the largest bond issue for school construction in the history of the Harwood Union School District.

As schools prepared to open this week, members of Harwood Union’s administrative team held a 90-minute online Q&A session Monday night to field a myriad of questions from the community about how the third school year during a pandemic will work.

It was meant to be an unveiling but the veil last weekend seemed to have a mind of its own and despite best efforts by volunteers, the new “Phoenix Rising” installation mounted to the side of 5 Stowe St. was out for all to see.

Remembering Irene