About The Hinesburg Record
Serving the Hinesburg Community Since 1987.
The Hinesburg Record is a non-profit news organization that provides timely, 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 became a 501(c)3 nonprofit in 2025 and its board decided to end its monthly print edition with the December 2025 issue and devote all efforts online. It now reports important content as it happens and produces The Weekly Record, an email newsletter that goes to subscribers every Monday morning.
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The Record is produced by volunteers and by a core group who receive small stipends. The Record pays writers and photographers when assigned stories.
The Record aims is to help residents gain a greater understanding of their neighbors, town government, schools and businesses and to encourage citizen engagement in the major issues facing the community. The Record seeks to have all voices of the community represented in its coverage.
We provide all our content 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. We also provide Promoted 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 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, Co-Chair
Dotty Schnure, Co-Chair, 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.
