The Brockport High School Band will host its annual Evening of Jazz on Saturday, April 21 at 5:30 p.m. in the High School Auditorium.

In addition to Brockport’s Jazz Ensemble and Blue Notes, Jazz Ensembles from Webster Schroeder, Fairport High and the University of Rochester will perform.

Admission is $5 which includes a ticket for a food item and raffle. Tickets are available at the door. Doors open at 5 p.m. 

Highland Breast Imaging is making it easier for women to get screened for breast cancer by opening a fourth location April 3 at 2212 Penfield Road, Suite 500 in Penfield.

Highland Breast Imaging at Penfield will offer screening mammograms every Tuesday and Thursday from 8:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and Wednesday from 1:45 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Appointments can be made at (585) 487-3300. Referrals are not needed for most screenings.

The average March temperature in Rochester was 47.3 degrees.  This was a remarkable 13 degrees above average.

The average winter (December-January-February) temperature in Rochester was 32.4 degrees.  This placed the winter as the fifth warmest on record.  The warmest winter in Rochester history was in 1931-32 when the average temperature reached 34.5 degrees.  (The only noteworthy item to cheer if you are a winter weather fan was the above normal snowfall that was observed in February.)

Additionally, this past winter nationally also turned out to be the 5th warmest on record.

You thus might be surprised to learn that globally, this winter was the 11th coldest on record in the 34 year satellite record.

This is attributable to the fact that parts of Europe and Asia were breaking records for low temperatures and heavy snow, while we in the States were basking in the glow of a low winter sun.