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Letitia Baldrige dies at 86; etiquette expert, author, columnist
Letitia Baldrige, an etiquette maven who served as social secretary to First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy and later wrote books and a syndicated column advising readers on good manners in contemporary America, has died. She was 86. Baldrige died Monday at...
Tags: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Medical Specialization, Philosophy, Bethesda (Montgomery, Maryland), U.S. Department of State
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Jennifer Jaff dies at 55; advocate for the chronically ill
Jennifer Jaff was on the brink of attending law school when her doctor tried to stop her because she had a debilitating chronic illness. "I decided I couldn't stay in bed the rest of my life," she later said. "I had to live." Decades later she was a...
Tags: Rentals, Pearl Jam (music group), Barack Obama, Business Enterprises, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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Lawrence Garfinkel dies at 88; statistician helped link smoking to lung cancer
Lawrence Garfinkel, the statistician who overcame his lack of a doctoral degree and training in oncology to become one of the driving forces in demonstrating that smoking causes lung cancer, died Jan. 21 in Seattle. He was 88.
The cause of death was...Tags: World War I (1914-1918), Health Organizations, Diseases and Illnesses, Science and Technology, World War II (1939-1945)
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Senior is denied rental car overseas
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterQuestion: My wife and I try to make one major trip abroad a year. This year we thought we would go to Northern Ireland in September, but every auto rental agency I've contacted has a maximum age for a car rental. I happen to be 82. Is there any way I...Tags: Vacation and Timeshares, Rentals, University of Connecticut Health Center, Hospitals and Clinics, Rental Service
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Claude S. Brinegar dies at 82; former oil executive and Cabinet secretary
Claude S. Brinegar, a former oil industry executive and the nation's third transportation secretary, who helped enact the controversial 55-mph speed limit during the Arab oil embargo in the 1970s, died of natural causes Friday at a retirement community in...Tags: Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Mark Twain, Travel, Union (Tolland, Connecticut), Economic Sanctions
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READER SUBMITTED: Music Together Announce Upcoming 6-Week Summer Session And Special Babies Class
West HartfordOnline Registration Now Open! Research-based early childhood music and movement program, Music Together of West Hartford and Farmington Valley, will start a new 6-week summer session and special babies class beginning the week of July 8. A Music...Tags: Simsbury, Preschools, West Hartford, Schools, Music
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READER SUBMITTED: Winding Trails Opens Nature's Porch
FarmingtonOver 350 people attended the Grand Opening for a new nature and education center at Winding Trails in Farmington. The 3000 sq ft "Nature's Porch" center is a certified Connecticut grown building built with large posts and beams and joined with large...Tags: Halloween
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READER SUBMITTED: Simply Swing Performs June 23 in Glastonbury
GlastonburyThe 2013 Farmington Bank Community Concert Series featuring Simply Swing continues Sunday, June 23, at 7 p.m., Hubbard Green, (Main and Hubbard Streets) in Glastonbury. "Given the positive feedback we received last year, we decided to continue and expand...Tags: Newington, Bloomfield (Hartford, Connecticut), Plainville, Wethersfield, Southington
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READER SUBMITTED: Intensive Education Academy Honors Supporters
West HartfordThe Intensive Education Academy, Inc. located at 840 North Main Street, West Hartford, CT held its 24th annual Honorary Reception at the Farmington Club on June 5. Known as the "School Built on Love", IEA is one of the five ministries of the Sisters of...Tags: Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), West Hartford
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Police Serve Search Warrant, Seize Drugs At Avon Home Targeted In Home Invasion
The Hartford CourantPolice arrested two people Thursday after serving a search warrant and finding drugs at 27 Jackson St. The same house was the target of an armed home invasion in December. Two men were arrested in that case. On Tuesday, Avon police officers, joined by...Tags: Heroin, Drug Trafficking, Simsbury, Cocaine
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West Hartford Woman Named A 'Healthcare Hero'
The Hartford CourantA local woman has been named a 2013 "Healthcare Hero" by the Connecticut Hospital Association and will be recognized at its annual meeting on June 25. Wendy Martinson, a registered nurse who is a quality assurance specialist at John Dempsey Hospital...Tags: Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Chicago Housing Authority, University of Connecticut Health Center, Heart Failure, West Hartford
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Resident Of Troubled Group Home Was Tortured, Lawsuit Alleges
A lawsuit filed against a scandal-ridden group home for developmentally disabled adults in East Hartford goes further than even the graphic police affidavits supporting the arrests of a manager and two staff members charged with abuse and intimidation...Tags: Sparrow (music group), Torrington, Bloomfield (Hartford, Connecticut), Police Arrests, Crime, Law and Justice
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