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 ...

BRATTLEBORO-Vermont Adult Learning (VAL) is pleased to announce the recent relocation of its Windham County Learning Center to 113 Technology Drive. After five years on Putney Road, this move will ...

TOWNSHEND-The Townshend Village School has opened registration for incoming kindergarten and preschool students for the upcoming 2025–26 school year. Incoming kindergarten students turning 5 and pre-K ...

Nancy Gassett is a Vernon resident. She ran as a Republican nominee for Windham-1 state representative in 2022 and 2024. VERNON-Dear Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark: As you know, I recently ...

Read Issue #809 of the Commons newspaper, published on April 2, 2025. Brattleboro's award winning, independent, nonprofit source of news and views.

BROOKLINE-In Vermont, it seems that every generation is concerned about the future of the working land. And with good reason. The original settlers grew their own food, yet profited from the making ...

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 ...

Editor's note: The 2020 deed transferring the Chalet property to the Windham & Windsor Housing Trust explicitly stipulates as a condition of the sale that Ursula Dalem have life tenancy, along with ...