Lisa Loomis

The Glam Cowboys, a student band from Harwood Union High School, took the stage at National Life Group’s Do Good Fest in Montpelier on July 11, performing for a large crowd and sharing the lineup with nationally recognized acts.

Editorial

A documentary examining the growing fight over access to books, libraries and intellectual freedom has received national recognition, but its filmmakers say the work is far from finished.

WARREN — Rin Merrick, who lives on Airport Road in Warren, has lived in bear country long enough to know the rules: don't leave food outside, secure the trash and lock the car.

Through Ellie’s Eyes Mountain Film Festival, honoring a Waitsfield woman who died in a skiing in accident, opens at the Big Picture in Waitsfield next month.

As The Valley Reporter goes to press on July 22, the Waitsfield Select Board is meeting on next steps for plans to build a new town garage at the site of the current town garage, off Tremblay Road. The town plans to ask voters to approve a bond vote for a new garage in November.

Editorial

Warren officials will hold a public debrief about the town's Fourth of July celebration and a separate conversation about the growing use of the village pavilion after residents described recent traffic congestion, emergency access concerns, excessive noise and damage to public property.

Waitsfield officials are asking the Vermont Agency of Transportation to address the aging Meadow Road Bridge before the state routes traffic over it during a planned bridge replacement project in neighboring Moretown.

The debate over whether a 1% local option tax would protect taxpayers or burden local businesses was the focus of a July 28 Warren Select Board meeting.