Longtime City Islander “mussel sucker” Virginia Gallagher, who is best known on City Island for her devotion to the retirees at Pilot Cove Manor, fell down there, broke her hip, was rushed and operated at Jacobi Hospital. fellhttp://www.nychealthandhospitals.org/jacobi/?nycGovRedirect

Virginia tells CITY IMAGES that she is in a lot of pain but wants to go home. Virginia is and has always been a real trooper. She took over the Presidency of the City Island Senior Citizens Residence, which had been trying for some time to build senior citizen housing on City Island.

On March 5, 1946, British statesman Winston Churchill referred to the Soviet Union's sphere of influence in Eastern Europe as an "iron curtain" in a speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Mo. Today in History: Sunday, March 05, 2017 http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/files/specials/today-in-history/index.html… Trump accuses Obama of tapping his phones, cites no evidence https://www.apnews.com/1b2637860b2042c48b18a26951437d5d

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen is expected to deliver a new and improved economic outlook in Chicago today.

The chair is expected to provide the strongest so far message of a possible March rate hike.

Fed policymakers have already said such a step could be necessary if the advances of the labor market were “in line" with their expectations, adding that they may need to get ahead of accelerating inflation by nudging short-term rates higher soon.