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

Read Issue #823 of the Commons newspaper, published on July 16, 2025. 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-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 ...

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 ...

WEST CHESTERFIELD, N.H.-In Donald Margulies's Collected Stories - the latest production of Actors Theatre Playhouse (ATP) - grad student Lisa is thrilled to be under the tutelage of her literary idol, ...

Dan DeWalt, a frequent contributor to these pages and one of the founders of this newspaper, writes that if he didn't love his country, he "wouldn't spend so much time trying to get it to live up to ...

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 ...

On Saturday, June 14, local organizers, activists, partners, and leaders from across pro-democracy and pro-worker movements will come together for more than 25 "No Kings: A Nationwide Day of Defiance" ...

Tim Maciel is a director on the Windham Southeast School District board and a member of the Rural School and Community Alliance. He emphasizes that "the opinions made here are mine and do not ...