Read Issue #826 of the Commons newspaper, published on August 6, 2025. Brattleboro's award winning, independent, nonprofit source of news and views.

Read Issue #825 of the Commons newspaper, published on July 30, 2025. Brattleboro's award winning, independent, nonprofit source of news and views.

PUTNEY-Twilight Music and Next Stage Arts Project continue the 22nd Twilight On The Tavern Lawn series of bluegrass, Americana, world, swing, and pop music summer concerts on Sunday, Aug. 10, at 6 p.m ...

BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Development Credit Corporation (BDCC) and Bennington County Regional Commission (BCRC) are jointly announcing the 2025 call for project submissions for inclusion in the ...

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 ...

Read Issue #809 of the Commons newspaper, published on April 2, 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 ...

BRATTLEBORO-Charlie Light has finally got the film in the can. Having started to document the development of communes in Guilford and in Montague, Massachusetts in real time in the 1970s, Light is ...

BRATTLEBORO-With wars raging in Ukraine and Gaza, plus a very uncertain presidential race in the United States, the Windham World Affairs Council's annual Galbraith Lecture featured a wide-ranging and ...

BRATTLEBORO-The Annual Town Election takes place for all town voters on Town Meeting Day, Tuesday, March 4, and eight candidates are competing for three seats on the Selectboard. The following ...

BRATTLEBORO-Vermont Independent Media (VIM), publisher of The Commons, has purchased The Deerfield Valley News, a loved and respected weekly that has been serving the Deerfield Valley community for ...

PUTNEY-Thank you for publishing Annie Pisgah Searsburg's thoughtful and informative piece. It is an issue that needs more attention and awareness! There are opinions and viewpoints about homelessness, ...