Read Issue #824 of the Commons newspaper, published on July 23, 2025. Brattleboro's award winning, independent, nonprofit source of news and views.

Read Issue #823 of the Commons newspaper, published on July 16, 2025. Brattleboro's award winning, independent, nonprofit source of news and views.

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 ...

BRATTLEBORO-Analysis of Brattleboro's Charter Revision Survey reveals growing dissatisfaction with the current Representative Town Meeting (RTM) system. In Districts 7, 8, and 9, significant ...

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 ...

Dan DeWalt, a frequent contributor to these pages and one of the founders of this newspaper, writes that if he didn't love his country, he "wouldn't spend so much time trying to get it to live up to ...

MacLean Gander is retired from a long career as a professor and administrator at Landmark College. A former member of the board of directors of Vermont Independent Media, he was a longtime volunteer ...

BRATTLEBORO-For this year's Shakespeare in the Park production, Vermont Theatre Company presents "A Midsummer Night's Dream," Shakespeare's timeless comedy of lovers, fairies, enchanted beings, and ...

WESTMINSTER-After completing its 25th school year of operation, The Compass School recently and abruptly announced that it will be permanently closing. Though it had planned on operating for at least ...

BENNINGTON, VERMONT / ZIKHRON YAAKOV, ISRAEL-The Shalom Alliance is working to advance the cause of peace and justice and combat the very intolerance that Richard Evers displays. Evers' letter is ...