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-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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WARDSBORO-I would like to wholeheartedly agree with letter writer Stephen Stearns that we must defend our precious First Amendment right to speak freely without government censure. His letter reminds ...

Richard Davis, a retired registered nurse and tireless advocate for access to health care, is a former Brattleboro Reformer columnist. He continues to post his writing on his Facebook profile ...

President-elect Jimmy Carter was preparing for his 1977 inauguration when Brattleboro Union High School drama director Robert Kramsky stumbled into the opening challenge of his own debut: How to get ...