Members of the United Nurses and Allied Professionals union lined the sidewalk in front of the Brattleboro Retreat last week as a volley of car horns sounded in support of the union members. The picketers held their informational picket during a week-long heat wave, waving to the passing traffic and carrying signs that portrayed a strained relationship between staff and management at the psychiatric hospital. A change in how the Retreat configures schedules - which affects inpatient nurses, licensed practical...
Entergy officials say they decided to close Vermont Yankee because of the low price of natural gas. If that's true, why is the company continuing to run its five other nuclear power plants, including Pilgrim near Boston and Indian Point in New York? The real reason Vermont Yankee is closing is because of the thousands of ordinary people who saw through Entergy's lies (“nuclear power is safe, clean, and reliable, and it doesn't cause climate change”) and volunteered countless hours...
Yellow Barn Music and Next Stage Arts Project will co-present Beowulf with Benjamin Bagby, on Sunday, June 16, at 7:30 p.m. Following the performance, there will be a discussion with Benjamin Bagby moderated by Yellow Barn Artistic Director Seth Knopp. In his hour-long performance of the first part of the epic poem known as Beowulf, Bagby assumes the role of an 11th-century “scop,” transporting both himself and the audience to the very roots of storytelling, when aural tradition was paramount...
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