Read Issue #826 of the Commons newspaper, published on August 6, 2025. Brattleboro's award winning, independent, nonprofit source of news and views.

PUTNEY-Twilight Music and Next Stage Arts Project continue the 22nd Twilight On The Tavern Lawn series of bluegrass, Americana, world, swing, and pop music summer concerts on Sunday, Aug. 10, at 6 p.m ...

Read Issue #825 of the Commons newspaper, published on July 30, 2025. Brattleboro's award winning, independent, nonprofit source of news and views.

FLORENCE, MASS.-I just read with shock and awe, or just plain enthusiasm, a couple of essays/articles about the newly opened Route 119 bridge over the Connecticut River and discussions about the ...

Tuesday, July 22, 2025 — Issue 824 SAXTONS RIVER-Main Street Arts' (MSA) board of directors recently voted to promote former program director Ashley Storrow to executive director.

Your tenure has been amazing. In the mere seven months since you took office our lives have been radically altered, largely by reducing or eliminating services.

BRATTLEBORO-Selectboard members heard from the Hinsdale, New Hampshire, town administrator that that town's Selectboard would consider only two options regarding the defunct Anna Hunt Marsh and ...

BRATTLEBORO-The results from the Charter Revision Committee's recent poll in Districts 7, 8, and 9 are telling: 66%, 78%, and 62% of respondents, respectively, expressed serious concerns about the ...

Wilda L. White, Hilary Melton, and Malaika Puffer are founding directors of MadFreedom Advocates, Inc., a grassroots, nonprofit organization run by and for psychiatric survivors, mad folks, and others ...

BRATTLEBORO-I have driven down Canal Street in Brattleboro and had a bicycle come flying by on the right-hand side as I was about to turn onto Oak Street. I'm just supposed to see them when they come ...

BRATTLEBORO-Plans to create a downtown restroom/police sub-station in the town-owned Brattleboro Transportation Center on Flat Street will move forward now that the Selectboard has voted 3-2 to do so.

AmÉe LaTour is a writer for nonprofits and lover of words and human beings. Recovery City is screening at film festivals and at events around the country. BRATTLEBORO-I'm grateful to Turning Point and ...