Tonight

Opponent: Binghamton RangersSite: Baltimore ArenaTime: 7Radio: WITH (1230 AM), WAMD (970 AM)Outlook: After smelling out the joint in their last two home games, a 5-1 loss to this same Binghamton team and 7-4 to Rochester, the Bandits figure to put forth a vastly improved effort tonight. They're still skating with two patchwork attack lines, but it's not readily apparent when the defensive corps is having a good game. The Rangers won a couple of games in Carolina over the weekend, Peter Ferraro and Steve Larouche both scoring hat tricks in a 9-7 win last Friday.

The Howard County Board of Education's "Coffee and Conversation" session with the community, originally scheduled tomorrow, is to be held from 7 to 8: 30 tonight in the media center at Gorman Crossing Elementary School, 9999 Winter Sun Road in North Laurel.Information: Patti Caplan, 410-313-6682.

Voter registration for Baltimore's Nov. 5 general election will close tonight at 9 o'clock.Anyone not now registered who wishes to vote must fill out a registration form and return it to the city Election Board, 417 E. Fayette St., before the cutoff.