Tug Hill Plateau

Officials in a town near Lake Ontario's eastern end are asking residents to avoid driving on local roads so crews can remove 5 feet of snow that has fallen since Christmas Day.

Forecasters are calling for up to 2 feet of additional snow for areas east of Lake Ontario that have already received as much as 32 inches from lake-effect storms over the long Christmas weekend.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Forecasters at the National Weather Service are predicting lake-effect storms this weekend for areas east of the Great Lakes, with two feet of snow or more possible in some areas.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Parts of upstate New York near lakes Erie and Ontario have already received nearly 2 feet of snow while forecasters say some areas could get up to 4 feet by the weekend.

LYONSDALE, N.Y. (AP) — The Nature Conservancy has purchased land that includes a two-mile stretch of the Moose River in the southwestern Adirondacks.