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Leapfrog: Connecticut hospitals graded from best to worst on safety Andrew DaRosa FacebookTwitterEmail In its biannual report, the Leapfrog Group has graded 22 of Connecticut's hospitals based on safety. The nonprofit, which monitors and reports hospital safety data, grades hospital safety based on a number of factors, including the number of infections and the types of practices in place to prevent errors. The Leapfrog Group looks at the data available from each hospital, and determines how well they've performed on a graded scale that ranges from A to F. In Connecticut, seven hospitals rece...

San Antonio restaurants and bars that have closed due to COVID-19 Priscilla Aguirre FacebookTwitterEmail This year, San Antonio lost some restaurant and bar gems due to the coronavirus pandemic. Meatball lovers can no longer visit the beloved trolley dining room at the San Antonio Spaghetti Warehouse. Country fans are limited in honky-tonk dance halls after Cooter Browns and Wild West closed. And, popular eclectic, Southern-style cafe Eastside Kitchenette hurt many pancake enthusiasts when it permanently shut its doors in March, just two months after its first anniversary. With 2020 coming to...

55 holiday gift ideas from small businesses around Seattle Sign In by Christina Ausley, Seattle P-I Dec. 1, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail As the the holiday season commences across the Emerald City amid the novel coronavirus, it seems this year, perhaps more than any year before, Seattle's small businesses need our help. While the food, drink and hospitality scene has been hit especially hard with restrictions in place due to COVID-19, so too has the city's retail industry. From local chocolatiers and homemade pedicure kits, to reusable gift wrapping and candles poured fresh in downtown studios,...

I went skiing at Crystal Mountain during the pandemic. Here's what happened Sign In by Christina Ausley, Seattle P-I Dec. 16, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail This time last year, I was aimlessly driving up the winding winter roads which weave to Crystal Mountain Resort. I had moved to Washington just a year before, diving into some Evo ski sales, committing myself to learn the game of winter mountain sports while purchasing an Ikon pass and buying a pair of purple Salomon skis but still proudly touting my childhood long johns. Nevertheless, I trekked up to Crystal Mountain Resort with an empty wall...

A look back at historic snow storms in Connecticut Associated Press, Lidia Ryan, Frank Juliano Dec. 16, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail The National Weather Service maintains a Significant Weather Events Archive that goes back to 2010. In that time, it lists six storms officially classified as "blizzards" in southern Connecticut. Of course, the infamous Feb. 6, 1978, "Storm of the Century" is missing, as is the granddaddy of them all, the March 11, 1888, Great New England Blizzard. The storm that is just arriving in our area now may make these seem so, well, last century. We'll have to see. staff p...