Let's have a sequence of commendation for Dunkirk Dave, Western New York's own endure forecasting groundhog. On a unfeeling matutinal six weeks ago today, Dave awoke from his nap, took a aspect around and did not woo his shadow. And, as all of us can testify, our winter climate came to an end about four weeks after that date. Now, excuse in some adamant piles and shadowy nooks, the snow is gone. What's more, it's doesn't bearing liking for we're getting any more snow without delay away.
The National Weather Service promises sunshine and temperatures in the mid-50s today and Wednesday, then one-sided sunshine and highs in the blue 50s later in the week. Frost is expected tonight, but overnight lows are meant to postponement above the cold identification until next Sunday. Time to bring dow a overthrow out the golf clubs. In fact, we just got an e-mail from Terry Hills in Batavia. Their track is open. • • • If you want verification that we have only two seasons -- winter and construction -- demeanour no further than the ramps that glue the I-190, the Niagara Thruway, with the I-290, the Youngmann Highway, in the Town of Tonawanda.
Starting today, execute begins on reconstructing the bridges for the ramps there, which is current to cause lane restrictions and movement backups until the prepare is finished in November. On the standard day, 40,000 vehicles use the interchange. • • • The Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority wants to improve some of its bus routes -- eliminating the ones that are the farthest flung and have the fewest riders -- and it's giving folks around the precinct five opportunities to reference on it.
City residents get their fortune at a hearing from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Erie Community College City Campus Auditorium. • • • The polls are unconcluded for village elections all over Western New York today.
In summing-up to electing mayors and trustees, some municipalities -- three in Cattaraugus County solitarily -- are asking voters to take whether to deliquesce their governments entirely. Meanwhile, in the Lake Shore Central School District in the Town of Evans and Angola, voters are being asked whether to palsy-walsy the Brant Elementary School this stumble and the W.T. Hoag Elementary School in 2011.
Closing them would prevent the department $900,000 over the next two years. District officials prognosticate that proper now, they have 90 classrooms in five introductory schools, but only enough students to meet 60 of them. The partition plans to stay Native American students who convoy Brant together and at sacrifice Seneca idiom and background to them in their unheard of school. • • • The pomp Department of Environmental Conservation hosts a worldwide session from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. in the Cornell Cooperative Extension Building, 4487 Lake Ave., Lockport, to debate Lake Ontario fisheries. Biologists from the DEC and the U.S. Geological Survey will manufacture presentations, including updates on trout and salmon fisheries, forage fish populations, lake trout restitution efforts, friendly saturate fish populations, and plethora lamprey control.
A 2007 investigate unhesitating that more than 2.6 million angler days were fatigued on the lake and its dominant tributaries. That helped limited economies to the tune in of more than $112 million, the DEC says.
For more information, ring Paul McKeown in the DEC Allegany suboffice at 372-0645 or Mike Wilkinson in the DEC Buffalo charge at 851-7010. • • • Tonight's appearance by Zakir Hussain, the mythical Indian tabla player, shapes up as one of those ridge tuneful experiences. One of the world's great virtuosos, he's played with all from John McLaughlin of Mahavishnu Orchestra name to Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead. He comes to the University at Buffalo Center for the Arts with his Masters of Percussion ensemble, which includes the dancing drummers of Motilal Dhakis from Bengal. Showtime is 7.
Tickets are $25, $15 for students. • • • Everything's Irish this week, including the headliner tonight in the Town Ballroom, 681 Main St. It's House of Pain, the Irish-American hip-hop assortment from the 1990s, with all three of its principals -- Everlast, DJ Lethal and Danny Boy -- reunited. Tickets are $30. Doors unfortified at 7. It's an all-ages show. • • • The Buffalo Niagara Film Festival announces its 2010 take lineup, along with further events added to this year's schedule, at a dispatch discussion at 2 p.m. in the Market Arcade Cinema, 617 Main St. Expected to be on helping hand to grasp the in the first place tickets to the celebration are Buffalo Mayor Byron W. Brown and County Executive Chris Collins.
Also on employee … nearby filmmakers and dignitary impersonators. For updates, stay www.buffaloniagarafilmfestival.com. • • • Meanwhile, the Francophone Film Festival opens today at Canisius College with "Idigenes (Days of Glory)," a 2006 moving picture about volunteer soldiers from French colonies in North Africa and the penetration they faced as they fought the Nazis to let out France.
It was an Academy Award appointee for Best Foreign Language Film. Screenings are at 2 p.m. in the Regis Room of the Richard E. Winter '42 Student Center and 7 p.m. in the Montante Cultural Center. It's in French with English subtitles. Admission is free. Discussions follow. • • • Spring disturb is over and the Buffalo Film Seminars are back.
Tonight's item is president Peter Yates' 1973 robber film, "The Friends of Eddie Coyle." One of the most authoritatively regarded offence films of the 1970s, it stars Robert Mitchum and Peter Boyle. Screening starts at 7 in the Market Arcade Film and Arts Centre, 639 Main St. Tickets are $9 general, $7 for seniors and $6.50 for students.
Seminar directors Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian thrash out the fog afterward. For more info, stop www.buffalofilmseminars.com. • • • The Sabres prolong their access topple in Atlanta tonight, alluring on the Flames at 7.
Coach Lindy Ruff says he's universal for a much-needed convalescence in the fuel play. Watch on the MSG Channel. Listen on WGR 550 AM. • • • Now it's down to the Top 12.
A dozen finalists -- six men, six women -- have been chosen for the present installment of "American Idol" and all of them take up the manipulate at 8 p.m. for a two-hour extravaganza, performing hits of the Rolling Stones. It's seen locally on WUTV, Channel 29.
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