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

Read Issue #827 of the Commons newspaper, published on August 13, 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 ...

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 ...

Prospects for a second Amtrak train calling in Brattleboro look slightly better than in past years in light of the upcoming state rail plan, published in draft form in June. The document lists, as a ...

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 ...