BRATTLEBORO-Vermont Independent Media (VIM), publisher of The Commons, has purchased The Deerfield Valley News, a...
BRATTLEBORO-Much of Windham County depends for its health care services on Brattleboro Memorial Hospital (BMH),
BRATTLEBORO-With this month's effective end to the state's motel voucher program on July 1, a...
BRATTLEBORO-The annual Brattleboro Goes Fourth! parade on July 4 featured plenty of vehicles from all...
FairPoint honors Lillie for 20 years of service in telecom industry SOUTH BURLINGTON - FairPoint Communications recently recognized Local Installation and Maintenance Operations Manager Chris Lillie with a 20-year service anniversary award by Vice President of Northern New England Field Operations Rich Murtha. Lillie oversees the Brattleboro and Bennington offices. He began his career with the company as an installation and maintenance technician based out of the Milton office. He remembers being hired during a time when there was a...
On Saturday, April 21, the Village Dance Series is inviting the public to a community dance in celebration of New England Dancing Masters' 30 years of collecting and publishing traditional dances and singing games for children and communities. The dance will be held at the Evening Star Grange, 1008 East-West Rd, in East Dummerston. There will be a pot luck dinner at 5:30 p.m. and a dance (free admission) from 6:30 to 9:30 pm. The four New England Dancing Masters...
As a town, Brattleboro has been engaging a range of voices and organizations around how to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion. The topic of race often surfaces in pockets, whether in a letter to the editor that appears in The Commons or a community meeting to discuss incidents like the “Black Lives Don't Matter” posters that appeared around town in 2018. In a May 2017 issue of The Commons, Curtiss Reed Jr. posed a question to Selectboard candidates: “To what...
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