Waterbury Roundabout

12/14/2025

The Green Mountain Roamers are getting the trails ready with multiple cautions of early season riding. If this is your winter sport, like/follow their page so you see their updates.

12/14/2025

Waterbury Roundabout fundraising update:
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🔵Goal is $15,000 by Dec. 31.
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12/14/2025

Lots to see and do in Waterbury today. Reindeer games and Santa Fin on Bidwell Lane 11-2ish. Rotary's Santa Claus visit at Rusty Parker Park 3-4:30. Menorah lighting 4:30 with a celebration inside the train station following. Mad River Chorale concert 7:30 at the Congregational Church.

We’ve compiled a list of holiday happenings in Waterbury and around the nearby region. Bookmark and check back as it will be updated as we receive more.

12/13/2025

Complaints from the community prompted a Harwood Union High School club to postpone plans to show a documentary film about the demonstrations on U.S. college campuses last year regarding the conflict between Israel and Gaza. The event has sparked a discussion around free speech and the school's role to be accessible to the public, including to student clubs. The film, 'The Encampments,' came out this year and is available to view online.

Community objections led a student club to postpone showing a documentary film at Harwood Union High School last month. Plans to show the documentary, “The Encampments,” focusing on U.S. college student protests of the Israel-Palestine conflict, were shelved shortly after the event was announced...

12/13/2025

For those who have been asking or just wondering… no VT National Guard Santa parade this year. They will be busy elsewhere.

It is with genuine regret that, due to operational constraints, we will not be hosting Operation Santa’s Convoy this year. This is one of our most cherished outreach events, and we share in the disappointment of not being able to gather with you. We look forward to the opportunity to bring it back in the years ahead.

We wish everyone a safe and happy holiday season!

12/12/2025

Winterfest is right around the corner. Tonight's silent auction helps cover costs for many of the events. Holiday shopping meets supporting a good cause at the wine and beer store where there's a tasting ...

A silent auction this Friday at Cask & Cork on Elm Street will kick off Waterbury Winterfest 2026.

12/11/2025

Waterbury's town clerk is stepping down in a few weeks and the town's assistant clerk will be retiring soon as well. Replacements will be needed before Town Meeting Day. They're two of multiple departures from the town staff recently.

Town Clerk Karen Petrovic has submitted her resignation, saying that Friday, Jan. 2, will be her last day in her elected role in town government. Petrovic’s notice came a day after Assistant Town Clerk Beth Jones announced she will be retiring in early 2026. The two announcements are the latest in...

12/11/2025

Interested in the trails and land at the Waterworks in Waterbury Center? There's the first of two public meetings about their history, their purpose and potential future land-use policy for this resource that supplies the municipal water system. Tonight at the Main St fire station, 6:30 p.m., and via Zoom.

Late this past summer, the commissioners of the Edward Farrar Utility District in Waterbury took action calling for the closure of trails in the section of Waterbury Center known as the Waterworks.

12/11/2025

Waterbury is getting a big boost to begin work on the Randall Meadow flood mitigation project - and another grant to get working to prepare the town property behind Brookside Primary School for housing to be built there.

A key flood mitigation project and preparations to invite housing development on town-owned property have landed Waterbury $2.3 million in federal disaster recovery grant funding, Gov. Phil Scott and state officials announced on Wednesday. 

12/11/2025

This mid-week email newsletter from the Roundabout has a fair amount of news. And there's more coming this weekend ... if you don't get these in your inbox, just sign up with your email address. It's free!
See links here to stories about big grants the town of Waterbury will get for Randall Meadow flood mitigation and a potential new housing development behind the primary school (and the backstory to why the street is now Woody Avenue); Waterbury's town clerk is stepping down soon, as have a number of town staffers recently; there's a meeting tonight at the fire station about public use of the Waterworks land; several new obituaries are posted ... and we have lots of River of Light celebration photos (and video), and more. As always, thanks for reading!
https://mailchi.mp/01960b138b82/this-week-in-waterbury-dec-10-2025-breaking-news

12/09/2025

From The Valley Reporter - emergency on German Flats Road in Fayston is under control. No word yet on what caused the truck to catch fire.

12/09/2025

🚨UPDATE: This post was updated with a second Vermont State Police brief: Investigators are seeking the public's help in a grand larceny case on Gregg Hill Road in Waterbury; troopers also stopped a wrong-way driver on I-89 in Waterbury without incident.

Vermont State Police say they stopped a wrong-way driver on Interstate 89 north of Waterbury Sunday night without incident.