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

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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 ...

A former Brattleboro Union High School student is speaking out, alleging that Principal Steve Perrin made unwanted sexual and romantic advances over several years at the high school starting in 2010.

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

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-St. Brigid's Kitchen and Pantry on Walnut Street marked 43 years of offering free hot meals to the food insecure when it kicked off its anniversary fundraising appeal on St. Patrick's Day.

BRATTLEBORO-I must be one of scores, if not hundreds, of readers who were truly shocked to read Linda Hecker's essay about her ordeal of harassment, threats, and the downright cruelty she's endured, ...

With the frosty sound of snow beneath feet in 18 degrees of Vermont cold, three state representatives from Brattleboro met on the steps of the State House last Wednesday to honor John and Mary ...

BELLOWS FALLS-North Star Health has announced that the organization has made the "difficult decision" to close the Rockingham Health Center effective Jan. 1, 2025, when the Health Center will be ...