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

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 ...

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

TOWNSHEND-The smallest hospital in Vermont is not going anywhere. One provision of The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (H.R.1), which President Donald J. Trump signed into law on July 4, constrains state ...

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 ...

SAXTONS RIVER-The Saxtons River Fourth of July celebration is scheduled to take place Friday, July 4, on Main Street in the village of Saxtons River. "Families have loved spending the Fourth of July ...

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 ...

BELLOWS FALLS-The Great Falls Regional Chamber of Commerce is calling on residents, business owners, and community partners to help shape its direction through a brief community survey. The Chamber is ...

Tim Maciel is a director on the Windham Southeast School District board and a member of the Rural School and Community Alliance. He emphasizes that "the opinions made here are mine and do not ...