Read Issue #826 of the Commons newspaper, published on August 6, 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 ...

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

Wilda L. White, Hilary Melton, and Malaika Puffer are founding directors of MadFreedom Advocates, Inc., a grassroots, nonprofit organization run by and for psychiatric survivors, mad folks, and others ...

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-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-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 ...

GUILFORD-The passage of the disastrous mega-bill. The opening of the detention centers designed to keep fellow human beings in cages, or worse. The flagrant use of hard drugs in the White House, and ...

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-The annual Brattleboro Goes Fourth! parade on July 4 featured plenty of vehicles from all the town departments, not many politicians, and lots of protesters. Perennial participants ...