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 ...

BRATTLEBORO-Back in 1960, when the town decided to manage capacity Town Meeting crowds by becoming the only community in the state to elect a set number of citizen participants, residents never ...

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 ...

DUMMERSTON-The future of children's offerings at Lydia Taft Pratt Library will be a whole lot brighter thanks to a $54,700 grant from the Vermont Early Childhood Fund (VECF) to build a new program for ...

BRATTLEBORO-"I always thought that the Sportsman's Lounge on Canal Street in Brattleboro was our own version of the television show Cheers," says Gordon Bristol, a regular customer for many years. The ...

Read Issue #781 of the Commons newspaper, published on September 11, 2024. Brattleboro's award winning, independent, nonprofit source of news and views.

Read Issue #822 of the Commons newspaper, published on July 9, 2025. Brattleboro's award winning, independent, nonprofit source of news and views.

On Oct. 24, I was fired by the Vermont Department of corrections for having written a poem: Elegy to Gary Partridge. Partridge was a student of mine at Southern States Correctional Facility who died ...