About The Hinesburg Record
Serving the Hinesburg Community Since 1987.
The Hinesburg Record is a non-profit news organization that provides fair and accurate news and information to the community of Hinesburg, VT.
Founded in 1987 by June Giroux and Frankie Birdsall as a mimeographed newsletter, The Record decided in late 2025 to end its monthly print edition and devote all efforts to provide important content as it happens and to produce The Weekly Record, a post and email that goes out every Monday morning.
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The Hinesburg Record is mainly produced by volunteers; however several core staff are paid small stipends and writers and photographers are sometimes paid honorariums when assigned to cover a story.
Our mission is to serve the community, to provide residents with greater understanding of the town and its people. Our aim is to provide fair, non-partisan, and accurate journalism, including coverage of town government, business, schools, sports, housing and development, the outdoors and environment, history and upcoming events. Our cornerstone project is the My Story feature in which Hinesburg residents tell a story about a photograph.
Our aim is to provide all information for free. To do that we rely on donations, grants and devoted businesses who purchase ads. We have several options for ads — banner ads on The Weekly; banner ads in our Biz Directory (coming); or text about job openings in our Job Bank (coming). We also are offering Promoted Content — media releases, marketing video or audio, text and the like.
With no full-time writers, we encourage — and depend on — community participation in writing and submitting articles about their organizations and upcoming events. If you wish to send us a press release, send it to news@hinesburgrecord.org. (We reserve the right to edit for clarity.)
We work 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, design and see their work in print as well as providing them training and encouragement. We encourage citizens of any age to write Letters to the Editor about topics they feel strongly about. They must reflect respect and civility.
If you’d like to help us — writers, photographers, artists, web aficionados, audio or video experts — please write editor@hinesburgrecord.org. We cannot promise fame or fortune, but we can guarantee satisfaction from helping the community understand itself.
For details on our policies for Editorial Independence, Financial Transparency and Conflict of Interest, click here.
Our Board of Directors
Ginny Roberts, Chair
Dotty Schnure, Board Secretary
Richard Watts, Treasurer
Tom Giroux
Our Staff
Mary Jo Brace, Finance Officer, Circulation.
Geoffrey Gevalt, Managing Editor.
Cathy Ryan, Content Editor.
Laurie Wedge, Proofreader.
