-Last week was a busy one for Vermont's high school athletes as they cris-crossed the state for the opening rounds of the playoffs. There's a lot to cover, so let's get to it. Baseball • Bellows Falls ...

BRATTLEBORO-Neighborhood Schoolhouse, 231 Western Ave., announces the return of its kindergarten program for the 2025–26 school year. An independent school since 1980, Neighborhood's nature-based ...

BRATTLEBORO-Center for Solace, formerly known as Brattleboro Area Hospice, has created new support groups specifically for caregivers of individuals with dementia. These groups aim to provide ...

-It was a slightly off-kilter opening day for the Brattleboro Bears varsity baseball team on a cold, gray, and blustery late afternoon on April 10 at Tenney Field. The field itself is still a work in ...

Marc Bernard Schauber is the executive director of the Coalition for Vermont Student Equity. "Please be in touch with your questions, concerns and suggestions," he writes to potential voters in the ...

BRATTLEBORO-In a marathon 10-hour session (not counting lunch and a few short breaks), Representative Town Meeting (RTM) members sent a proposed $24.7 million budget back to the drawing board in a ...

Curtiss Reed Jr., one of the founders of this newspaper, works at the intersection of economic development and inclusion and equity as CEO of CRJ Consulting Group, L3C. BRATTLEBORO-Beyond the current ...

BRATTLEBORO-As three newcomers prepare to take seats on the Selectboard, at least one outgoing incumbent isn't surprised. "Any incumbent was going to lose," said Franz Reichsman of the March 4 town ...

Also signing this letter were Ellen Martyn, Sara Longsmith, Emilie Kornheiser, Elizabeth Tannenbaum, Peter Fallon, and Beth Kiendl, all of Brattleboro, and Ann Darling, of Easthampton, Massachusetts.

Read Issue #804 of the Commons newspaper, published on February 26, 2025. Brattleboro's award winning, independent, nonprofit source of news and views.

BRATTLEBORO-It was a brutally cold day, just after a snowstorm and very windy under cloudy skies. With sidewalks barely cleared in Brattleboro, one might've wondered why anyone would go to town that ...

WESTMINSTER-The Windmill Hill Ridgeline Reserve has grown by 96 acres after the Windmill Hill Pinnacle Association (WHPA) acquired and conserved the land with the Vermont Land Trust (VLT). The ...