Today:
Partly sunny, with a high near 66. Light and variable wind becoming west 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight:
Mostly cloudy, with a low around 47. West wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening.
Highs temperatures are expected to remain at seasonable levels, peeking into the 70s next week.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
1776 British forces evacuate from Boston to Nova Scotia.
1828 Birth of Patrick R. Cleburne, Confederate general.
1832 Birth of Daniel Conway Moncure, U.S. clergyman, author, abolitionist
1868 The first postage stamp canceling machine patent is issued.
1884 John Joseph Montgomery makes the first glider flight in Otay, Calif.
1886 Twenty African Americans are killed in the Carrollton Massacre in Mississippi.
10 years ago
March 17, 2011: Klaus Kleinfeld, chairman and CEO of Alcoa Inc., will visit Massena Friday to celebrate the reopening of the companyâs Massena East operations. U.S. Sen. Charles E. Schumer will be among those in attendance to welcome Mr. Kleinfeld. This will be the first Massena visit for Mr. Kleinfeld, who elects to visit several plants around the world each year.
25 years ago
March 17, 1996: The former Kmart store on Washington Street, Watertown, will become Samaritan Wellness Center if Samaritan Medical Center follows through on an option to buy the vacant site. Samaritan officials are looking to the 70,000-square-foot building and large lot as a possible solution to space problems at the hospitalâs main campus, which is about a mile north on Washington Street. The space crunch has resulted in jammed parking lots and shuffling of programs during a time of rapid expansion.