Waterbury News

Last July, The Alchemist in Waterbury, Vt. announced plans to double the production of its most popular beer, the double-IPA Heady Topper.

Thirty-two hundred Vermonters have signed up to take the 'pledge' this week, finding alternatives to driving alone in the car to work.

At The Alchemist in Waterbury, Vt., cans of the brewery's signature Heady Topper were spinning off the production line Monday.

The Alchemist is open 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. seven days a week. Heady Topper costs $12 per four-pack or $72 per case.

FEMA signed off on fixing the state office complex in Waterbury that was ravaged by Tropical Storm Irene.

What would Jesus do? If he could cook like the members of the Moretown-based Church of the Crucified One , he would expand.

When you think of a spit-roasted lamb, you may think of Greece, but you probably won't think "sparklers" - unless you are Greek.

The Vermont town of Johnson has been without a grocery store for two years after spring flooding inthe downtown Grand Union.

When it comes to growing rhubarb, Perley Farnham was my man. Perley, a white-haired former lumberman, grew rhubarb in the side yard of his home on U.S. 2 outside Waterbury in the 1970s and early '80s. His plants were so big and vigorous they were visible from Interstate 89 a hundred yards away.

In case you haven't heard, The Alchemist's Heady Topper is now the No.1 ranked beer in the world.

WATERBURY -- On Aug. 29, 2011, the day after Tropical Storm Irene rained destruction on Vermont, Albert Ca ron talked his way past a police officer posted on Main Street in Waterbury, and drove his four-wheel-drive truck to his repair business, Waterbury Service Center.

The Vermont Agency of Transportation says a large sinkhole will keep the northbound passing lane of Interstate 89 closed overnight.

Two days after Tropical Storm Irene's remnants devastated much of Vermont, with bodies still missing and residents stranded in their homes, two Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department game wardens were given a special assignment: to rescue houseplants belonging to Secretary of Natural Resources Deb Markowitz.

The fish used for McDonald's Fish McBites and Filet-O-Fish sandwich is not local.

Many Vermont businesses effected by Tropical Storm Irene have horror stories about trying to get loans from the Small Business Administration.