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The Denver business Federal Heating has closed its doors after 84 years. Siblings Bo and Sherry Ramsour are the third generation to own and run the business that helped families switch from coal to natural gas for their home heating and struggled to keep going as the e-commerce boom started.
The lost: Capital Region lives ended by COVID-19 The pandemic has upended the nation, but its truest cost is felt by friends and families Times Union staff FacebookTwitterEmail 558. That's the minimum count of how many people, as of this writing, have succumbed to COVID-19 in the greater Capital Region. In less than 10 months. That is a wartime number — a casualty list perhaps more in keeping with the recounting of Civil War regimental losses than of anything understood in the modern era. Scientists who study the way the human brain processes big numbers say we’re not very good at it. T...