BRATTLEBORO — The Commons will suspend publication for a week so our staff and contributors can recharge their batteries, enjoy the holiday season, and otherwise gird themselves to produce a good newspaper for you in 2016.
The next issue will be dated Wednesday, Jan. 6. Deadline for news and advertising is Friday, Jan. 1.
All of us at Vermont Independent Media and The Commons offer readers best holiday wishes in these waning days of 2015. See you next year.
BRATTLEBORO-An achievement that has been decades in the making is about to finally happen with...
BRATTLEBORO-In the predawn hours of Nov. 7, a fire tore through the abandoned remains of...
PUTNEY-A fourth appeal to the Vermont Supreme Court has proved unsuccessful in stopping the proposed...
BRATTLEBORO-A group of residents has successfully petitioned for a special Town Meeting to debate whether...
At the 2019 Annual Town Meeting, voters in Dummerston and Putney might vote on whether the municipalities should enter into a partnership to co-own the Renaud Gravel Pit. The pit, on Route 5 in Dummerston, supplies both towns with gravel. During Selectboard meetings in September in both towns, board members respectively introduced the proposal, after receiving the offer from Mike Renaud, the gravel pit's owner. Renaud confirmed with The Commons that he is interested in selling the gravel pit to...
Don “The Con” Trump was fully informed that he had lost the 2020 election and that there would be no way to change the outcome. Yet he said this as he defended the Jan. 6 insurgents: “If you know a vote is fraudulent, right? How can you pass on a fraudulent vote to Congress?” If you are lying and you know you are lying - and you continue to do so - you are a fraud, and quite possibly a...
Main Street Arts (MSA) is proud to present Northampton, Mass., musical artist Carrie Ferguson with The Grumpytime Club trio in an outdoor concert in Saxtons River on Sunday, June 26, at 6 p.m. Ferguson describes her original music for children and their parents as “creative, positive, upbeat, and catchy as cake!” She says her recent album, The Grumpytime Club, offers children and families welcoming and inclusive messages about accepting feelings, celebrating differences, and loving themselves exactly as they are. As...
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