55 holiday gift ideas from small businesses around Seattle
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by Christina Ausley, Seattle P-I
Dec. 1, 2020
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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, scroll down for 55 local goods and holiday gift ideas you can nab online to support some of Seattle s smallest, women-led and minority-owned businesses.
I went skiing at Crystal Mountain during the pandemic. Here s what happened
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by Christina Ausley, Seattle P-I
Dec. 16, 2020
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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 wallet and my new gear. I followed the roads lined with tall, snowy pines, questioning the fortitude of my tiny Honda Accord when an ice patch appeared in the distance. I arrived at the mountain for the very first time, alone and entirely uncertain of what came next.
A look back at historic snow storms in Connecticut
Associated Press, Lidia Ryan, Frank Juliano
Dec. 16, 2020
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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.
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Feb. 7, 1978 - Two special police officers try to dig out a medical technician on the corner of Grove and Broad Streets in Stamford after the blizzard of 1978.
20 memorable San Antonio moments from 2020
20 memorable San Antonio moments from 2020
Taylor Pettaway
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A global pandemic triggered lockdowns and the cancellation of our iconic Fiesta celebration.
The death of George Floyd while in Minneapolis Police s custody led to national protests, including in San Antonio, demanding social justice.
So much has happened locally over the last 12 months, you made need a refresher. MySA has compiled a list of 20 news events that made us cheer, made us cry or made our jaws drop.
Scroll below for San Antonio s 20 most memorable of 2020.
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Jan. 19:
Two people were killed and another five injured after 19-year-old Kiernan Christopher Williams allegedly opened fire inside Ventura San Antonio, a River Walk nightclub, according to San Antonio police. Williams was charged with capital murder in the death of Robert Martinez, 21, and Alejandro Robles, 25.
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