November 06 , 2025
Warren voters approve town garage bond, CVCC bond fails
Warren voters passed a $9.7 million bond to construct a new town garage on Vaughn Brown Road with 324 yes votes, 211 no votes and two spoiled ballots. The town will proceed with putting the project out to bid with construction slated for next year. The land on School Road in Warren Village, where the town’s current garage is located will be rehabbed and may potentially be used for housing. Over the fall and winter, Warren’s road crew will undertake preliminary site work at the Vaughn Brown Road site, as time and their regular work allows. The town expects to be using the new garage by next fall.
Voters in the 18 central Vermont town rejected a $149 million bond to construct a new campus for the Central Vermont Career Center by a vote of 5,751 no to 3,872 yes in November 4 voting. The votes were co-mingled.
November 13 , 2025
Waitsfield posts Meadow Road bridge at eight tons
In November the Waitsfield Select Board posted Meadow Road bridge at eight tons, installed flashing signs and will be installing cameras. The continued deterioration of Meadow Road bridge over the Mad River prompted the action. There are no exceptions except for public safety vehicles and town road crews. All other overweight vehicles must use alternate routes. Due to state statute, however, agricultural vehicles that weigh more than eight-tons are allowed to continue using the bridge.
The status of the bridge has been on the board’s radar for years, but it became critical after July 2024 flooding closed several other bridges and routes, causing a significant increase in traffic on the one-lane bridge.
November 24 , 2025
One person injured, two buildings damaged as car takes flight in Waitsfield
A passenger suffered serious bodily injury, a driver was charged with DUI and negligent operation and two buildings were seriously damaged in an accident that occurred in Waitsfield Village at 12:45 a.m. on Sunday, November 23.
Vermont State Police Trooper Jae Farnum-Boylan reported that Eric McCarthy, 45, of Essex, Vermont was traveling north on Route 100 in a 2016 BMW 335i when his car left the roadway and struck the business sign, porch steps and northern end of the front porch of Darrad Services on the east side of Route 100. The car went airborne, traveling north and east where it struck and became embedded in a red two-story building in the Bridge Street Marketplace.
McCarthy’s passenger, Katylyn Ruhl, Colchester, was extricated from the vehicle by the Mad River Valley Ambulance Service (MRVAS), and transported to Central Vermont Medical Center,
Kevin VanSchaick, MRVAS rescue chief, said that when the rescue crew arrived they braced the weight of the car with rescue struts so that it did not sink further into the building, collapsing more of the floor which also made it safe enough for his team to enter and extricate Ruhl and free McCarthy.
November 26 , 2025
MRG half-way to its $2.5M fundraising for 1,100 acres
Mad River Glen is moving to secure more than 1,100 acres of surrounding forestland in what is described as a once-in-a-generation conservation opportunity that would permanently protect critical terrain, ecological habitat and the backcountry character that defines the Fayston skier-owned ski area.
The Mad River Glen Cooperative exercised a right of first refusal on the land after being notified that the current owners – the Mad River Corp., the family of the late owner Betsy Pratt and a small group of longtime associates – had received a formal offer from an outside buyer. Under the deeded agreement, the co-op had 30 days to match the offer.
It responded with a $2.5 million bid to purchase the land outright. The offer that triggered the right of first refusal was for $2.5 million from Lyme Mill Brook LLC, an anonymous family foundation managed by Lyme Timber Company. Mad River Glen received it in mid-October and had 30 days to respond.
The acreage stretches from Route 17 to the spine of the Green Mountains, and from Mad River Glen to Sugarbush’s Mount Ellen. It includes the well-known 19th and 20th Hole terrain skier’s right of Antelope as well as roughly 50 acres north of Route 17 abutting Camel’s Hump State Forest.
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