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 a solid weekly newsletter, The Weekly Record.
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 explanatory journalism: breaking news and coverage of town government, business, schools, sports, housing and development, the outdoors and environment, history and upcoming events. We believe we are record-keepers of the past, present and future. We use digital media to enhance subscribers’ experience, particularly in the My Story profiles.
Our aim is to provide all information for free. To do that we rely on donations, grants and devoted businesses who purchase small ads. We may soon add a paid subscription here to make it easy for people to donate on a regular basis. However, all subscribers will have access to all our content.
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 and 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.
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.
We will soon have opportunities for paid promotional material of interest and will clearly mark that content as such.
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.
