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Posted: Sunday, 05 April 2009 4:03PM

Breakfast Buffet - April 6, 2009

Tom Connolly Reporting

Buffalo, NY (WBEN) -- Haven't you always heard that somehow, almost every story has a Buffalo connection, or that to be famous all you have to do is leave your hometown? Each night, WBEN's Tom Connolly compiles a collection of some of the day's other stories -- including stories about Buffalo and Western New York scattered across the World Wide Web. He serves them up here smorgasboard style in a new daily, online-only feature.

From the Niagara Gazette: Forget robins -- the sure sign of spring is the removal of the ice boom

The Anchor Bar will be part of Bobby Flay's Great American Food and Music Fest in California

From the Hornell Tribune: the Swain ski resort is shutting down Some of the locals don't mind a bit

“I’ll feel a lot safer if we don’t have the Rochester crowd down here, or Buffalo, on the weekends. You never know what they got on their mind. Course I don’t worry too much about it, I got an old shotgun that talks louder than I do and if anybody tried to break into my home I wouldn’t hesitate to use it.” -- Nelson Smith

From the Berkshire (MA) Eagle: Amtrak restores sleeper cars on the Lake Shore Limited, the passenger train that stops in Buffalo on its route between Chicago and Boston

From the Erie Times-News: Skip down to travel tip #5: airfare in May from Buffalo to San Francisco for $231

From the Economic Times: Australian museum's exhibit honoring the seat of power, business chairs, featuring one for the Larkin administration building

From CBC Sports: fiancee of former Sabre Taylor Pyatt is killed in car crash while vacationing in Jamaica

Buffalo News hockey columnist Mike Harrington says Canada is considering asking Lindy Ruff to coach Team Canada at the World Championships

The Hockey News doesn't want to be bulletin board material, so just in case, they included the Buffalo Sabres in their playoff preview issue

From the Sault (ON) Star: Ted Nolan says he hasn't ruled out a return to junior hockey as a coach but also said he wouldn't mind being a GM one day

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