Enjoy the last weekend in winter... Spring like weather is in the air all over City Island and our increasingly gorgeous surrounding areas, which stretch from the extreme western end of Long Island Sound, south of Pelham Bay and Eastchester Bay to City Island Harbor, which marks the main shipping channel into NYC.

From Belden Point through Pelham Park and on to Orchard Beach. These unseasonable temperatures are providing many lucky local citizens, as well as delighted visitors and not to mention the birds and the bees and the flowers and the trees and the moon up above...

N. KOREA SATELLITE LAUNCH. Threat to World Peace and Security.

12 KILLED NATO CHOPPER CRASH. ISAF-Kabul, Afghanistan.

GI SHOOTER MOVED TO US. Afghan President Protests.

IRAN BANKS BLOCKED. International Punishment.

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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today marked the anniversary of the uprising in Syria by calling for an end to the ongoing bloodshed, which has claimed more than 8,000 lives since popular protests began a year ago, and for a peaceful resolution of the crisis.

“It is urgent to break the cycle of violence, stop military operations against civilians and prevent a further militarization of the conflict in Syria. The status quo in Syria is indefensible,” said a statement issued by the Secretary-General’s spokesperson.

Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. and the Borough President’s Disability Advisory Council held the borough’s first ever “Medicaid Rights Forum and Disability Resource Fair.” The public event, sponsored by the Visiting Nurse Services of New York, offered Bronxites insight on the latest proposed changes to Medicaid and information about important services available to help Bronx families.