Read Issue #828 of the Commons newspaper, published on August 20, 2025. Brattleboro's award winning, independent, nonprofit source of news and views.

Tuesday, August 12, 2025 — Issue 827 Django Grace describes himself as an environmentalist, skier, chiller, and lifelong Brattleborian. He graduated from Brattleboro Union High School in 2024 and will ...

Read Issue #827 of the Commons newspaper, published on August 13, 2025. Brattleboro's award winning, independent, nonprofit source of news and views.

BELLOWS FALLS-In May, a community group will begin unveiling its work on a $37,000 study of the Native rock carvings next to the Vilas Bridge on the Vermont side of the Connecticut River. The Kchi ...

Carolyn North is a writer of books that address "the interface between matter and spirit." She submits this piece in memory of Pamela Mayer, the founder of the Manitou Project in Williamsville.

BRATTLEBORO-Much of Windham County depends for its health care services on Brattleboro Memorial Hospital (BMH), which has been weathering what already was a financial crisis. And then everything ...

BRATTLEBORO-World Learning Inc. is in the first stages of developing a creative answer to the region's housing shortage - a problem that is hitting close to home. In 2018, when its School for ...

Read Issue #818 of the Commons newspaper, published on June 4, 2025. Brattleboro's award winning, independent, nonprofit source of news and views.

Turning a beloved childhood home into a bed-and-breakfast isn't unusual. But there is a lot more to the story of how Claudia Williams renovated and restored her family homestead - a hideaway on a ...

Read Issue #809 of the Commons newspaper, published on April 2, 2025. Brattleboro's award winning, independent, nonprofit source of news and views.