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-Selectboard members are proceeding with caution about if and how the town might step up if the Anna Hunt Marsh Bridge is repurposed. "There are risks and liabilities, and we need to be ...

BRATTLEBORO-Brattleboro Area Hospice has officially changed its name to Center for Solace. This change reflects its growth and commitment to serving even more people in Windham County and its ...

Lasse Jeppesen Schmidt, a native of Denmark, is a former journalist. BRATTLEBORO-I will be frank with you: This piece is the result of self-imposed psychotherapy. I am still processing the events that ...

BRATTLEBORO-What happens when you work in social services for 30 years, then retire and start your own social services agency, only to be met by the Trump Administration's attempt to cut Social ...

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BRATTLEBORO-In a marathon 10-hour session (not counting lunch and a few short breaks), Representative Town Meeting (RTM) members sent a proposed $24.7 million budget back to the drawing board in a ...

Curtiss Reed Jr., one of the founders of this newspaper, works at the intersection of economic development and inclusion and equity as CEO of CRJ Consulting Group, L3C. BRATTLEBORO-Beyond the current ...

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 ...