21 Arrested as Community Leaders Block Scabs to Support StrikeBy Steve Thornton(June 1) On the 48th day on strike at a Connecticut nursing home, twenty one community leaders, labor activists, clergy members and elected officials were arrested while blocking scab workers from entering and leaving the Park Place Health Center [ ... ] ...
Helene Kvale of Bated Breath Theatre Company discusses their latest play, The Parkville Project. The play takes place in Hartford’s Parkville neighborhood amidst the backdrop of an ICE raid and is based on interviews with Hartford residents. It runs July 7- 18.Click here to download the MP3photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kelli78/ ...
Calling Labor and Community Supporters:RALLY!FOR 1199 SPECTRUM STRIKERSSATURDAY, APRIL 2411:00 AM TO 12:00 NOONPARK PLACE HEALTH CENTER5 Greenwood Street, Hartford(off Park St. Parking on Amity, Madison, Grace, and nearby streets)On the 10th day of the strike, join nursing home workers who are fighting unfair labor practices and the threat of permanent replacements. The Spectrum Corporation [ ... ] ...
Hartford, CT– The much anticipated art exhibit of the year will be held this year at the Charter Oak Cultural Center in downtown Hartford. The 32nd annual show of artwork from Connecticut’s Prisons features 140 artists from 14 correctional facilities, and is open throughout the month of May at Charter Oak.This [ ... ] ...
Wednesday's 'South Park' episode was so controversial, it gleaned death threats—so Comedy Central scrapped it. What that decision means for the faltering show ...
For Immediate Release:Video from Thursday: Hartford SEIU1199 Strike 4/15/10Thursday, April 15 at 6:00 am, District 1199 workers at four nursing homes began their strike for a fair contract against the Spectrum Healthcare corporation.In Hartford, the workers at Park Place nursing home will be on the picket line (5 Greenwood Street, off Park Street*).I hope you [ ... ] ...
The town council is planning to draft its version of the budget for March 9, followed by a combined passage of the board’s and town’s budget on April 27. In the meantime, budget wrangling has begun in earnest ... From West Hartford News ... After a zero percent increase to the Board of Education’s budget last year, rising medical liabilities and pension costs for retired employees are the major driving factors for a proposed budget that contains a $5.31 million increase for the 2010-11
Public service announcement – don’t park on the street in Hartford from noon today (2/10) until 8 a.m. tomorrow (2/11). You could get a $100 ticket! Also the same thing goes for West Hartford ...
Janice La Motta (pictured at right), program coordinator at the Studio at Billings Forge, 563 Broad Street in Hartford, is arranging a community event at 6:00 pm on Wednesday, February 24. La Motta said she hopes it might “develop into a regular forum for bringing together diverse members of the arts community, and anyone else [ ... ] ...
In the beginning, Oceanic Flight 815 started shaking somewhere over the Indian Ocean. "My husband keeps reminding me that planes want to be in the air," Rose nervously tells the passenger sitting next to her, a levelheaded neurosurgeon named Jack Shephard. "Well, he sounds like a very smart man," Jack replies. Moments later, 815 is ripped into three pieces, emptying its contents onto a Chinese box of an island. Twenty minutes into the still-stunning pilot episode of , the message was clear: