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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

PUTNEY-Thank you for publishing Annie Pisgah Searsburg's thoughtful and informative piece. It is an issue that needs more attention and awareness! There are opinions and viewpoints about homelessness, ...

DUMMERSTON-The controversy over political banners hung inside library windows of the Dummerston School has prompted multi-meeting discussions by the Windham Southeast School District (WSESD) Board, ...

BRATTLEBORO-Charlie Light has finally got the film in the can. Having started to document the development of communes in Guilford and in Montague, Massachusetts in real time in the 1970s, Light is ...

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

The Actors Theatre Playhouse in West Chesterfield, New Hampshire, announces auditions for its first production of the 2024 season, the Ten Minute Play Festival, which runs for 10 performances Thursday ...

BRATTLEBORO - There's a new tool to help people escape abuse. Available at bit.ly/746-help, it's an online guided interview that helps Vermonters prepare forms to ask for protection from abuse.

Obituaries • Robert Edward Baybrook, 79, formerly of Brattleboro. Died peacefully on Aug. 15, 2023 in Florida, where he moved 23 years ago to pursue his love of fishing. He was born Norman Edward ...

For years, former Ambassador Peter Galbraith has given an annual talk to the Windham World Affairs Council (WWAC). These talks have usually focused on the various hot spots in the Middle East and the ...