Williston Observer

1 week 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.

1 week 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.

2 weeks 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.

2 weeks ago | willistonobserver.com | Jason Starr

After a stint in central Vermont punctuated by the pandemic and a devastating flood, serial restaurateur Brian Lewis is putting down roots in Chittenden County. He moved with his family to South Burlington in January, two months after opening his Yellow Mustard deli on St. Paul Street in Burlington. Now, four months later, the Connecticut native has opened a Yellow Mustard in the Taft Corners Shopping Plaza in Williston.

3 weeks ago | willistonobserver.com | Jason Starr

Traffic engineers consulting with the Town of Williston are advocating for a roundabout at the four-way intersection of South Brownell Road and Marshall Avenue. But industrialists who truck heavy loads through the area are wary of the idea. The crossroads is “the industrial center of Chittenden County and probably the state,” said Ryan Carroll, a manager at Wood’s CRW Corporation.