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Vermont Business Magazine Vermont Independent Media has announced that its community newspaper,
The Commons, won 10 prizes in the New England Newspaper & Press Association’s 2021 Better Newspaper Competition, in divisions for weekly newspapers with circulation greater than 6,000.
The Commons is based in Brattleboro.
The awards for the newspaper, which covers Brattleboro and the surrounding towns and villages in Windham County, Vermont, included one first prize for Spot News Story for Randolph T. Holhut and Olga Peters, “Cash-strapped Retreat pursues shutdown after rebuke by state agency.”
The category awards exceptional work on stories that are unplanned, like this report, where Holhut and Peters broke down a temporary but public and escalating conflict between the Vermont Department of Public Health and the Brattleboro Retreat, a psychiatric hospital providing essential services to the state of Vermont.