Photos by Gordon Miller

The Highlander girls hockey team is breaking new ground this season with a reach across Central Vermont to include high school players from Harwood Union, Northfield, Williamstown and Randolph.

Coming off a state championship in 2020 the Harwood varsity boys hockey program was eager to get their delayed season under way. Two weeks in, they haven’t disappointed on the ice.

Coming off a co-championship win last season, Harwood girls basketball will have a tough time topping their fairy-tale 2020 finish, but head Coach Tom Young sees a strong team with promise to keep the momentum going in the 2021 abbreviated season.

In his second year as head coach of Harwood Boys Basketball, Josh Bellows owns that the team is building after setting a new path last year that ended 4-16-0.

As a former 40+-year teacher, I was very disappointed to read that Harwood school board members voted to reduce by one-half the number of core teachers in the Harwood Union Middle School.

Author Dan Brown has written a lot about religion. He finds God in the invisible strings tying humanity together.

It’s that time of year again to begin to think about preschool for your 3- or 4-year-old.

Editor’s note: The Harwood Unified Education Association, the union representing teachers and staff in the Harwood Unified Union School District, sent this letter to the HUUSD School Board regarding the board’s decision Feb. 17 to cut four core classroom teachers at Harwood Union Middle Scho…

A Burlington woman was unhurt but police cited her for Driving Under the Influence early Saturday morning after she crashed her vehicle into the Old Center Cemetery along Vermont Route 100 in Waterbury Center, damaging the cemetery fence and a number of gravestones.

I would like to introduce myself, as I have requested my name on the ballot for a one-year Duxbury Selectboard term.

A Brooklyn, New York, woman was taken to UVM Medical Center with injuries she sustained in a snowmobile crash on a trail in Waterbury, according to Vermont State Police.

Editor’s note: Brock Coderre is one of four candidates running for two one-year terms on the Waterbury Select Board in the Town Meeting Day election.

Editor’s note: Waterbury Select Board member Mark Frier is one of four candidates running for two one-year terms in the Town Meeting Day election.

I have been a Duxbury resident for 11 years and love it here! Duxbury is the ideal place, in my mind, to live and raise my family. However, I recognize that there are many challenges that face small towns like Duxbury which require civic engagement from the members of the community.

Contrary to its name, the Harwood Union School Board was anything but unified last week as it voted 6-6 on cutting four teaching positions at Harwood Middle School for next fall.

We encourage all voters to request school district ballots if they haven’t already, or to vote in person on Town Meeting Day, March 2.

A $250,000 bond for the town garage, a purchase of a new tandem truck, and the prospect of legal marijuana operations in the near future are just a few of the questions before Duxbury voters for Town Meeting Day this year.

Editor’s note: Waterbury resident Scott Culver is running for a three-year term on the Waterbury Select Board in the Town Meeting Day election on March 2.

With Town Meeting Day around the corner and the COVID-19 pandemic still a reality, Vermont town clerks are ready with ballots to mail early and local officials are prepping for online informational meetings instead of the traditional in-person gatherings.

For decades in Waterbury, if one attended a Waterbury Village Trustees meeting back when there was a village government, or if someone was in need of an ambulance, or if while headed in or out of the town offices you caught bits of a lively conversation about the latest town business, you pr…

The Harwood Union School Board has voted unanimously to support renaming Thatcher Brook Primary School and setting up a community-centered process to identify a new name.

Vermont State Police say a Middlesex man died on a trail in Waterbury Center on Sunday when the snowmobile he was riding on crashed into a tree.

Last summer, I regularly passed a stand of towering white pine trees at Camp Plymouth State Park in Ludlow, where I live and work. Most days, I saw at least one hairy woodpecker, a few blue jays, chickadees, a pair of broad-winged hawks and a multitude of red squirrels around the trees.

The Harwood Union School Board last week put off the question of flying the Black Lives Matter flag at district schools but signaled that it plans to discuss and decide whether to move ahead with considering a new name for Thatcher Brook Primary School.

Several contested elections, a question on legal weed commerce, a tax rate below what voters backed in 2020, and 25 separate requests to fund nonprofit organizations and social service agencies.

Many libraries have Friends groups and the Waterbury Public Library is lucky to be counted among them. Our Friends of the Waterbury Library group provides essential support for Library services and programs each year through their fundraising activities. You can help by choosing them as the …

Waterbury and Stowe each logged five new COVID-19 cases last week while thousands of older Vermonters have made appointments to get their first dose of the vaccine.

Closed since March 2020 due to COVID-19, the Green Mountain Coffee Roasters café at the Waterbury train station will not reopen and its staff have been officially laid off, a spokeswoman at Keurig Dr. Pepper said last week.

On the morning of January 17, Duxbury resident Donna Constant awoke to a peppering of large natural snowballs scattered across a neighboring field.

Harwood Union High School’s standout Nordic skier Ava Thurston is in Finland where she will compete in the Junior World Cross Country Ski Championships next week.

Student bottle drive to support Waterbury Senior CenterThe Harwood Rotary Interact Club’s next fundraiser will be a bottle drive during the week of Feb. 8 with proceeds going to the Waterbury Area Senior Center.

Some Harwood Union High School students are taking aim at their school’s paper use with a project to plant more than 100 trees in April and they are looking for Waterbury, Duxbury, and Mad River Valley residents to participate.