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Tuesday, August 12, 2025 — Issue 827 Django Grace describes himself as an environmentalist, skier, chiller, and lifelong Brattleborian. He graduated from Brattleboro Union High School in 2024 and will ...

Read Issue #827 of the Commons newspaper, published on August 13, 2025. Brattleboro's award winning, independent, nonprofit source of news and views.

Roger Allbee served as secretary of agriculture, farms, and markets for Vermont in the administration of former Governor Jim Douglas. This piece is adapted from a post on his blog, "What Ceres Might ...

Ken Burns, who lives and works just over the Connecticut River in Walpole, New Hampshire, has been making award-winning documentary films and miniseries for almost a half century. On May 19, Burns ...

Prospects for a second Amtrak train calling in Brattleboro look slightly better than in past years in light of the upcoming state rail plan, published in draft form in June. The document lists, as a ...

In a post-lockdown economy with rising prices, wealth hoarding, and dissipated government support, how can performance spaces - especially in rural regions, far from big cities - get people in the ...

The Northwest Quarterly Meeting of Friends (Quakers) is a coalition of 14 Quaker congregations in Vermont and New Hampshire. PUTNEY-As Quakers, we seek to abolish all wars and the causes of wars. We ...

DUMMERSTON-The Landmark Trust USA (LTUSA) is kicking off the rehabilitation of the former horse stable at author Rudyard Kipling's Naulakha, which will be adapted for use as an overnight vacation ...

BRATTLEBORO-As Congress devolves in front of our eyes and the federal government appears to be rapidly abandoning working Americans, Windham County's own U.S. Rep. Becca Balint, D–Vermont, is fighting ...

This letter was submitted on behalf of Spark faculty. PUTNEY-We, the faculty of the Spark Teacher Training Institute, support and stand with the National Education Association, the Vermont-NEA, and ...