Thank you for sharing this story full of tears and love. I am happy for the happy ending.
BRATTLEBORO-Since moving to Brattleboro over a year ago, I have learned that there are so...
BRATTLEBORO-The Anti-Defamation League's 2024 Audit of Antisemitic Incidents reports a deeply troubling rise in antisemitism...
DEERFIELD, MASS.-U.S. Rep. Becca Balint claims that President Trump "does not give a damn about...
The writer is a Town Meeting member representing District 8. BRATTLEBORO-As part of Brattleboro's FY26...
The final countdown has begun toward the July 1 deadline for the creation of a Windham Southeast School District Board, for which early voting is already in progress. In the midst of this legal transition, a consortium of Vermont school districts has filed a motion for summary judgment, urging the court to immediately vacate the state Department of Education's Nov. 30, 2018 order. The May 6 filing calls the DOE's mandate “unconstitutional and contrary to law.” If no judicial or...
About 2,000 tailgaters ago, I wrote about tailgating [“Your driving evokes murmurations in nature. Now slow down and back off!,” Essay, April 13, 2022]. I was open to thinking that tailgaters' ideas about tailgating could be something altogether different than mine. After all, they're looking at my rear end while I'm looking for their front end. I likened tailgaters to flocks of birds dancing in three-dimensional high-speed harmony and warned that all it takes is one tailgater, bird or human,
The Vermont Jazz Center (VJC) welcomes the Bobby Broom Trio on Saturday, Jan. 23, at 8 p.m. Broom is one of Chicago's leading guitarists, according to a news release from the VJC, and rarely plays on the East Coast. He will perform with his long-standing trio of Dennis Carroll on bass and Makaya McCraven on drums. The trio will travel from Chicago to Vermont for this “one-off” concert with no other East Coast gigs listed on their itinerary. Broom stands...
Mailing address:
P.O. Box 1212, Brattleboro, VT 05302
Physical address:
139 Main St, Suites 601A and 604, Brattleboro, VT 05302
The Commons is published by Vermont Independent Media, Inc., a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.