Waterbury News

WATERBURY - Vermont wildlife officials say the state's annual lottery for choosing who gets moose hunting permits randomly picked 1,230 winners out of more than 14,000 applicants.

Mountain bikers from all over Vermont and surrounding states will descend on Waterbury this weekend.

"Here they come! Plug your ears," children cried in excitement as Hanaford's Volunteers Fyfe and Drum Corps of Underhill marched to the top of Main Street in Waterbury.

Many communities celebrated the Fourth of July a little early. That includes Vermont's Capital City.

WATERBURY -- Vermont State Police are out in force this weekend with extra patrols focusing on impaired and aggressive drivers.

After more than 30 years, Col. James Baker gave his final 10-42, police radio code for "officer off duty, at the Shaftsbury barracks of the Vermont State Police on Tuesday.

This week the Department of Mental Health queried every hospital in the state and Dartmouth Hitchcock in Lebanon, N.H., about their interest in providing psychiatric acute care services that would replace care now provided at the Vermont State Hospital -- which state officials want to close.

If you were driving around Waterbury and Stowe, Wednesday, you might have felt like you took a trip back in time.

A cooler with about 20 half-empty cans of whipped cream was found behind Vermont Furniture Galleries on Blair Park Road on June 12, according to police reports.

Two years ago, brothers Tony and Joe Uzabel opened Waterbury Solar Store. Count that as one green business, two green jobs.

BRATTLEBORO -- A drill aimed at gauging emergency preparedness around the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant got a reality check when a telephone line failed.

A 63-year-old Duxbury man is accused of providing alcohol to minors, including one person who had to be taken to the hospital.

Waterbury police have made an arrest in connection with the death of a 39-year-old man whose body was found in an abandoned factory on Thursday.

The second in command at the Community College of Vermont has been named acting president.

A motorcyclist was killed this morning in a head-on collision with a car on U.S. 2 in Bolton.

WATERBURY - The state of Vermont is opening eight sites on state land to maple sugar making, giving interested syrup makers until July 10 to get their applications in.

WATERBURY -- The state Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation will open eight sites on state land for sugar making.

A sudden windstorm that swept through northern Vermont late Sunday afternoon felled trees, cut power to thousands of homes and left hail and snow in its wake.

Purchase an item at Burlington's Outdoor Gear Exchange and don't ask for a bag -- you'll be doing a charitable deed.

WATERBURY -- Vermont plans to spend $6 million on improvements at its state parks this year, bucking a national trend of cutbacks and service closures by cost-conscious states.