GreenWatch: Stella Niagara, Times Beach Nature Preserve, and the New York State Great Lakes Action Agenda
Several events and announcements have taken place in Western New York during the past week that champion the environment and help connect conservation, stewardship of critical shorelines, and the Great Lakes and the Niagara River strait.
Stella Niagara
[ROCK] At six years old, Mike Gordon kept a filing cabinet. Suffering from an insatiable urge to organize, he tucked in it hundreds of self-typed documents. He couldn’t help it. This compulsion followed him to adulthood even after his band, Phish, had grown into one of America’s highest-grossing touring acts. Today, things are different—at least a little.
How to Save Us is a psychological drama masquerading as a science fiction thriller. Or maybe it’s the other way around; either way, it’s an independent movie that relishes genre without chaining itself to its expectations.
Glowing in their distinctive, retina-searing orange or yellow, sometimes with additional reflective white strips at top, safety cones are suddenly cropping up on the Buffalo landscape like scattering, PVC dandelions. They appear solo or in passels, amid public green spaces, private residences, and along everyone’s causeways.
Schneiderman on Sedita: “I don’t know where Frank is today”: On Tuesday afternoon, New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman came to Buffalo to drum up support for the ethics reform legislation he has proposed, which would prohibit outside income for legislators, increase legislators’ terms from two to four years, lower contribution limits, close the loophole that allows LLCs to flood campaign with donations, and permit public funding of campaigns, among other provisions.
In reflective safety vests and bright orange helmets, a trio of Department of Transportation employees walked along Route 198/Scajaquada Expressway in Buffalo on June 2 along the shoulder of the roadway, working. John Wentz, Brian Dankert, and Norman Scherer were out “Collecting data so that they can decide what to do,” Scherer says, regarding replacement or enhancement of guardrails along the route following the tragic and fatal crash in Delaware Park (adjacent to Route 198, in part) on Saturday, May 30.