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A sketch illustrates how the site of the Jamaica Village School, which faces permanent closure, might be adapted into a multi-unit housing development of 40 apartments for seniors, eight townhouses/condomimiums, and 45 to 50 apartments of various sizes. Architects showed this image at the Londonderry housing meeting as an idea for how to use municipal land for housing.

Four towns address the housing crisis — collaboratively

Londonderry, Jamaica, Weston, and Winhall tackle issue of affordability and availability for housing near Stratton Mountain Resort
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Ellen Pratt
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 — Issue 784

LONDONDERRY-Vermont has a housing crisis - the state needs up to 36,000 new homes by 2030 to meet demand - and the quintessential single-family house on a large lot on a country road will not be the solution.

"It's certainly not the future that local Vermonters can afford," said Chris Campany, executive director of the Windham Regional Commission (WRC).

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Rolling into the future

After 11 years, Bellows Falls Community Bike Project now has a permanent home

By
Robert F. Smith
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 — Issue 784

BELLOWS FALLS-The Bellows Falls Community Bike Project, active in the village for 11 years, has raised enough money to be able to buy its current location at 30 Henry St., on the corner of Atkinson Street. Project founder and director Bonnie Anderson hopes the nonprofit will sign a sales...

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Commons publisher to host 20th anniversary party on Oct. 6

Tuesday, October 1, 2024 — Issue 784

BRATTLEBORO-Vermont Independent Media (VIM), publisher of The Commons, will celebrate its 20th anniversary on Sunday, Oct. 6, from 4 to 6:30 p.m., at the Retreat Farm's North Barn to honor and thank the community that has been integral to its success. VIM was founded in 2004 by citizens who...

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Helping organic farms blossom

By
Annie Landenberger
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 — Issue 783

NEWFANE-It's a mid-September afternoon, warm under a bright late-summer sky, and Laura Xiao of By Hand Farm in Newfane is sharing her love for raising cut flowers - and sharing her know-how - with eager participants in a workshop offered by the Northeast Organic Farming Association-Vermont (NOFA-VT). Coming from as far north as Burlington and as far east as Haverhill, Massachusetts, and Londonderry, New Hampshire, participants listen, ask questions, and take notes. The 29-year-old Xiao, who sells directly to customers...

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Consultant to GMCB: four hospitals need ‘major restructuring’ to survive

By
Peter D'Auria
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 — Issue 783

A consultant is urging the state to make dramatic changes to its health care system, including repurposing inpatient units at Grace Cottage and three other hospitals, consolidating services at others, and reforming how and how much facilities are paid for care. If fully enacted, the recommendations, contained in a 144-slide presentation released on Sept. 18, would lead to a sweeping transformation of Vermont's health care landscape. The report envisions a system in which much care takes place outside hospitals, where...

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Brattleboro to hire more police, citing rise in crime

By
Ellen Pratt
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 — Issue 783

BRATTLEBORO-After a summer of standing-room-only meetings about public safety in town, the Selectboard voted on Sept. 17 to adopt a new ordinance to address behavior and to fund increased police staffing. Board members called these actions part of the town's community safety agenda which includes implementing a downtown safety action plan, developing a community safety messaging campaign, working for state legislative reform, and other actions to address public health and safety in town. By establishing safety zones in town where...

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Republicans, independents mount challenges

By
Joyce Marcel
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 — Issue 783

BRATTLEBORO-The Commons reached out to challengers to incumbents in state legislative seats, inviting them to contribute some basic information to introduce them to readers as early voting in the general election gets underway. Following are brief profiles from those who responded to the newspaper's outreach for this story, with additional reporting and context from public records. A number of Republican challengers declined to participate, all claiming hostile treatment in the local press. A campaign website or social media presence follows...

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Discussion looks at history and Constitutional limits of free speech and political protest

Tuesday, September 24, 2024 — Issue 783

BRATTLEBORO-An America 250 Town Hall will consider the "intellectual and imaginative muscles necessary for holding free-speech principles in a pluralist society." The session, "What Does the First Amendment Ask of Us?" orchestrated by the Windham World Affairs Council, Brooks Memorial Library, and Vermont Independent Media/The Commons' Voices Live series, will take place in person at the library at 224 Main St. and will be livestreamd on Wednesday, Sept. 25 at 6:30 p.m. Meg Mott, a professor emerita who taught for...

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