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ICE building purchased by D.C. firm

1 week ago | willistonobserver.com | Jason Starr

The brick office building at 188 Harvest Lane that houses the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency was sold in May by Burlington’s Pizzagalli Properties to a Washington D.C. company that specializes in leasing property to government agencies. The sale of the 75,000-square-foot building closed for $20 million, according to Williston Town Clerk property records.
Smoke signals

2 weeks ago | willistonobserver.com | Jason Starr

Of all the impacts of global warming, wildfires and their migrating smoke plumes may be the most widely felt. An expansive swath of North America is currently under a haze of smoke billowing from uncontrolled fires in western Canada, and as residents of the Champlain Valley know, northern Vermont is in the crosshairs.
Town launches housing grant programs

1 month ago | willistonobserver.com | Jason Starr

The Williston Housing Committee will begin taking applications in July for two new housing programs approved by the selectboard earlier this month. The board launched both a housing retention and housing improvement program for Williston residents as part of its May 6 adoption of a Williston Housing Trust Fund policy. The trust fund was established in 2017 to support housing affordability, and the board empaneled the housing committee in 2023 to recommend potential uses.
Champlain Valley schools go cellphone free

1 month ago | willistonobserver.com | Jason Starr

As the school year comes to a close, so does the era of students using cellphones in class, cafeterias and hallways in Champlain Valley School District buildings. School administrators capped months of inquiry into the possibility of banning phones with a presentation during last Tuesday’s school board meeting of their draft phone regulations for next year.
What about Bob’s?: It’s opening in June

1 month ago | willistonobserver.com | Jason Starr

It’s another Vermont first. Several national retailers and restaurants have broken into the Green Mountain State with stores in Williston’s Taft Corners of late. Next up is Bob’s Discount Furniture, set to open its first Vermont store in June in the former Christmas Tree Shops location at Maple Tree Place. Bob’s has bloomed to nearly 200 stores across 24 states since its founding in Connecticut by Bob Kaufman in 1991.
Rieley buys former credit union branch

1 month ago | willistonobserver.com | Jason Starr

When New England Federal Credit Union merged with Vermont State Employees Federal Credit Union to become EastRise last year, the organization took a strategic look at all of its branch locations. The former VSECU branch at the corner of Route 2A and Alpine Drive was a casualty of that streamlining. EastRise vacated the building about one year ago, and it has been empty since. But last month, prolific Williston land developer (and Development Review Board member) Scott Rieley purchased the building.
Tuesdays won’t be the same

1 month ago | willistonobserver.com | Jason Starr

As operators of two of Williston’s landmark farms, Helen Weston and Kim Antonioli occasionally talk business. So it was in early 2020 when they both discovered they had chosen Tuesday to launch weekly summer evening events. The Isham Farm Market that Weston helped produce and Antonioli’s Truckin’ Tuesdays food truck festival at Adams Farm Market both had strong starts, with the Covid pandemic enhancing demand for outdoor gatherings. Five years later, the pair had another conversation.
Press on: Students launch CVU newspaper

1 month ago | willistonobserver.com | Jason Starr

Hey, let’s start a school newspaper!Those maybe aren’t words you’d expect to hear from high-schoolers in the mid-2020s, but that’s exactly what the three founders of The Hawks’ Nest have done this school year at CVU. Not since 2008 has the high school had a news source readers could physically hold and thumb through. A journalism class produced an online news site in recent years, but even that went dark at the end of last school year.
Housing developer breaks ground at Catamount

1 month ago | willistonobserver.com | Jason Starr

Holes No. 5 and 6 at the Catamount Country Club are morphing into the primary road through the planned “Summerfield” housing development off Mountain View Road. Ethan Allen Homes LLC purchased the majority of the golf course, 31 acres, in April, and about two weeks ago started moving dirt for the first phase of construction. Plans approved by the Development Review Board in 2022 show a neighborhood of 138 homes with four new roads.
Town Plan rewrite unveiled

2 months ago | willistonobserver.com | Jason Starr

Town planners on Tuesday unveiled their first complete draft of the 2025-2033 Comprehensive Town Plan, a vision document that guides policy in every sector of the community. From arts to archeology and education to economy; from housing to transportation and recreation to conservation, the Town Plan leaves no stone unturned in leading the community toward what it calls a “livable, resilient and equitable” Williston.