About The Hinesburg Record
Serving the Hinesburg community since 1987
The Hinesburg Record is a nonprofit news and educational organization that provides timely, accurate news and information to the community of Hinesburg, VT.
Founded by June Giroux and Frankie Birdsall as a mimeographed newsletter, The Record became a 501(c)3 nonprofit in 2024 and its board decided to end its monthly print edition with the December 2025 issue and devote all efforts online. It now posts new content almost on a daily basis and posts The Weekly Record every Monday morning. The post is sent by email to all subscribers.
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The Record is produced by volunteers (some receive small stipends). For bios of the staff, click here. The Record pays writers and photographers when assigned stories.
The Record aims to help residents gain a greater understanding of the important issues in the town including coverage of town government, schools, businesses and major ongoing stories. The Record aims to have all voices of the community represented in its coverage.
All our content is free. To do that we rely on individual donations, grants and advertisements from devoted local businesses. If you wish to make a donation, click here for more.
We have several options for ads — banner ads on The Weekly; banner ads in our Biz Directory. We also provide an opportunity for Promoted Content. If you wish to discuss advertising opportunities, send an email to ads@hinesburgrecord.org.
We encourage – and depend on – the community to provide tips, news releases and articles about their organizations and upcoming events they are holding. If you wish to send us a press release, send it to news@hinesburgrecord.org. (We reserve the right to edit for clarity.) If you wish your article or event to be considered for Monday’s Weekly Record, please send material by the end of day Thursday.
If you wish to suggest coverage of a story or provide us with a news tip (or if you have a question or concern about anything we’ve published), email editor@hinesburgrecord.org
We encourage citizens of any age to write Letters to the Editor about topics they feel strongly about. The letters must be civil and respectful.
Opportunities
We are always looking for local writers, photographers and digital media creators. If you would like to work with us, contact the managing editor at editor@hinesburgrecord.org We cannot promise fame or fortune, but we can guarantee satisfaction from helping the community understand itself.
We have created a paid, 12-week Summer Journalism Fellowship for recent graduates and/or members of the community. Applications are open in early April with a decision in May and start in early June. Contact editor@hinesburgrecord.org for details; the 2026 Fellow has been awarded.
We collaborate with students at UVM’s Center for Community News as well as students at Champlain Valley Union High School, providing them the chance to write and see their work in print as well as providing them training and encouragement.
For details on our policies for Editorial Independence, Financial Transparency and Conflict of Interest, click here.
Our Board of Directors
Ginny Roberts, Co-Chair
Dotty Schnure, Co-Chair, Secretary
Richard Watts, Treasurer
Tom Giroux
Dawn Francis
Our Staff
Mary Jo Brace, Finance Officer
Geoffrey Gevalt, Managing Editor.
Geoffrey began his career in journalism in 1973. He has been a reporter and editor with the Associated Press and publications in Maine, Massachusetts, New York City, Ohio and Vermont and has won numerous regional and national awards, including, as story editor, the George Polk Award for Investigative Journalism. For two years, he was a juror for the Pulitzer Prizes. He began with the The Record in 2024. In 2025, he served two stints as interim managing editor of the Santa Cruz (CA) Lookout Local, an online news outlet that won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News in 2024. Gevalt left journalism for 12 years when he founded and ran Young Writers Project, a nonprofit dedicated to helping young people write better and teachers teach writing better. In 2019, he stepped away from Young Writers to write his first novel, Hiram Falls, which emerged from stories he wrote for The Vermont Stage Company. The novel is now in the hands of an agent. Gevalt’s other writing can be found at geoffreygevalt.org. He has lived in Hinesburg since 1998.
Claire MacDonald, Reporter (2026 Summer Fellow)
Claire is a recent graduate from the University of Vermont, where she majored in political science and global studies. She worked with UVM's Community News Service for the past year, producing both print and audio stories focused primarily on arts and culture. She is originally from Columbus, Ohio, and enjoys swimming in Lake Champlain. She will be reporting throughout the summer of 2026.
Cathy Ryan, Content Editor.
Laurie Wedge, Proofreader.
