BRATTLEBORO-She started her own restaurant at the age of 20. Today, Linda Alvarez teaches young people how to become entrepreneurs and community leaders themselves. And now, she has been named 2026 ...

WESTMINSTER-It's not a generally known fact of history unless you happen to be from southeastern Vermont, but a strong case can be made that the first armed conflict of the Revolutionary War did not ...

What was the bustling industrial center of Bellows Falls a hundred years ago has slowly been converted over the past two decades into an exceptional public park. An area polluted, abandoned, and ...

BRATTLEBORO-Much of Windham County depends for its health care services on Brattleboro Memorial Hospital (BMH), which has been weathering what already was a financial crisis. And then everything ...

BRATTLEBORO-Caz Clark has a reputation in town. Karli Schrade, who runs Groundworks Collaborative's street outreach program for people experiencing homelessness, describes him as "one of our best ...

Vermont Independent Media, Inc. (VIM) was established as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in 2005. VIM's founders envisioned a forum for community participation that would build media skills among ...

BRATTLEBORO-The Sarasa Ensemble presents "Sweet Sleep," Friday, Nov. 14, at the Brattleboro Music Center (BMC), 72 Blanche Moyse Way. "Coinciding with nature's annual moment of repose, the ensemble ...

BRATTLEBORO-In celebration of National Coming Out Day (Oct. 11) and World Kindness Day (Nov. 13), Windham County Prevention Partnership invites community members to gather for an evening of ...

Marc Bernard Schauber is the executive director of the Coalition for Vermont Student Equity. "Please be in touch with your questions, concerns and suggestions," he writes to potential voters in the ...

The first issue of The Commons was published in 2006. The newspaper was published monthly until 2010, when it began a weekly schedule, publishing on Wednesdays 51 times a year. Vermont Independent ...

BRATTLEBORO-Vermont Independent Media (VIM), publisher of The Commons, has purchased The Deerfield Valley News, a loved and respected weekly that has been serving the Deerfield Valley community for ...

MONTPELIER-With spring clearing underway in parts of the state, the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) is reminding Vermonters to follow a few guidelines for on-premise or backyard ...