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

BRATTLEBORO-Rite Aid expects to close or sell off all five of its Vermont locations, including one on Canal Street, as the struggling national pharmacy chain goes through bankruptcy proceedings. In ...

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 #757 of the Commons newspaper, published on March 20, 2024. Brattleboro's award winning, independent, nonprofit source of news and views.

BRATTLEBORO-Since 1910, 196 Main St. has been the location for Brattleboro Lodge of Freemasons. Over time, there have been hundreds of Freemasons who have met there for fellowship, learning, and ...

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 ...

BRATTLEBORO-This afternoon at the Co-op, when I greeted a fellow with whom, for years, I have enjoyed mutually friendly encounters, I got ambushed. Without prelude or preliminaries, he accused me of ...

PUTNEY — For architect Robert “Bob” Swinburne, the design process starts with collaboration from day one and carries throughout every project. So much so that he's named his practice Bluetime ...

BRATTLEBORO-With this month's effective end to the state's motel voucher program on July 1, a community art space has transformed into an oasis of sorts for people who are without shelter as demand ...

Two in five Vermonters are experiencing food insecurity, reported Hunger Free Vermont in a recent virtual briefing on the hunger in the state. The federal government defines food insecurity as ...