There could be no predicting the consequences of a 13-year-old junior high school student hearing a public address announcement stating that President John F. Kennedy had been shot and killed in ...

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.

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

BRATTLEBORO-The Annual Town Election takes place for all town voters on Town Meeting Day, Tuesday, March 4, and eight candidates are competing for three seats on the Selectboard. The following ...

Construction work on a new train station, which will include the first elevated passenger platform in the state, is now set to start in March, says Amtrak Lead Public Relations Specialist Jen Flanagan ...

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 ...

BRATTLEBORO-World Learning Inc. is in the first stages of developing a creative answer to the region's housing shortage - a problem that is hitting close to home. In 2018, when its School for ...

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

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 ...

Read Issue #750 of the Commons newspaper, published on January 31, 2024. Brattleboro's award winning, independent, nonprofit source of news and views.

The former Marlboro College campus, which remains the home of the Marlboro Music Festival in July and August, will soon have students again. Potash Hill (potashhill.org), the nonprofit that purchased ...

BELLOWS FALLS-In May, a community group will begin unveiling its work on a $37,000 study of the Native rock carvings next to the Vilas Bridge on the Vermont side of the Connecticut River. The Kchi ...