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Nearly 600 employees at the Brattleboro Retreat have a new, three-year contract.
The organization's deal with Local 5086 of the United Nurses and Allied Professionals Union covers employees in several departments and includes the facility's numerous mental health workers.
It provides for raises and an increase in the Brattleboro Retreat's contributions to employee retirement plans, while also paving the way for a possible end to mandatory overtime.
Contract talks began last fall and wrapped up in January, hospital administrators and union representatives said Feb. 19 in a joint statement.
The new town clerk is a familiar face. Voters on Tuesday elected Tim Arsenault to serve a three-year term as town clerk, giving the longtime public servant the nod over clerk candidates Melissa Ferris and Nancy Gassett. Current Town Clerk Susan Miller did not seek re-election. Arsenault has served...
Voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly supported a proposed gas-fired power plant, paving the way for developers to push forward with a 600-megawatt facility that could be built in the shadow of Vermont Yankee. There were 677 “yes” votes and 153 “no” votes in response to a simple, non-binding referendum question:
The first truck containing contaminated groundwater has departed from Vermont Yankee, and many more will follow. At a Feb. 25 meeting in Brattleboro, Entergy administrators disclosed that they have begun shipping the fluid - which is flowing with unexpected intensity into the plant's turbine building - to a disposal site in Tennessee. Officials have said the water is contaminated with relatively low levels of tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen. But as the liquid leaves the Vernon plant in quantities...
There likely won't be any school-merger votes in the near future for one of Vermont's biggest supervisory unions. At a meeting on Feb. 24 held at Guilford Central School, most members of Windham Southeast Supervisory Union's (WSESU) Act 46 Study Committee said they believe it is no longer feasible to pursue an “accelerated” merger of all of the union's school districts. Instead, they advocated taking more time to pursue other merger options. The committee didn't take a vote on the...
It's safe to say Louis Josephson has his hands full. As the Brattleboro Retreat's new president and chief executive officer, Josephson is in charge of more than 800 employees and an array of programs including 122 inpatient beds for children and adults; multiple outpatient offerings; a school; and a busy “hub” for treatment of opiate addiction. Josephson has taken the reins of a community institution with 182 years of history, along with a more-recent history of difficulties with federal and...
The Intex Easy Set swimming pool retails for anywhere from $35 to $500 depending on its dimensions, and it's advertised as one of “the easiest family and friend-sized pools to set up in the world.” But in Vernon, the Easy Set is serving a much different purpose: to help manage a complex groundwater-intrusion problem at Vermont Yankee. Photos of the plant's interior show several blue pools marked with yellow radioactive warnings due to the full load of contaminated water inside.
Depending on whom you ask, the roundabout at Interstate 91 Exit 3 is either an effective traffic-flow device or a needlessly confusing mess. “You do hear people complain about the rotary, but other people really like it,” said Kate O'Connor, Brattleboro Area Chamber of Commerce executive director. It now appears that there have been enough complaints to spur some modifications: Vermont Agency of Transportation (AOT) officials say they're planning to tweak signs and pavement markings in an attempt to reduce...
