The Annual Hispanic Heritage Awards was held at the Bronx County Courthouse on the Grand Concourse, on Thursday, Sept. 20. On hand were Borough President Adolfo Carrion, Jr., District Attorney Robert Johnson and New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, who presented this year’s award to four individuals and one organization. This year’s honorees were Rosanna Rosado, publisher and CEO of El Diario La Prensa; Sonia Ossorio, board president of NOW; Junior Suarez, a Staten Island native who helped pull two people out of a truck after a steam blast in Manhattan; and Doris Quinones, a former Norwood resident who is the executive director of the Bronx Tourism Council and a board member of Mosholu Preservation Corporation (which publishes the Norwood News).
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Welcome to the Norwood News, a bi-weekly community newspaper that primarily serves the northwest Bronx communities of Norwood, Bedford Park, Fordham and University Heights. Through our Breaking Bronx blog, we focus on news and information for those neighborhoods, but aim to cover as much Bronx-related news as possible. Founded in 1988 by Mosholu Preservation Corporation, a not-for-profit affiliate of Montefiore Medical Center, the Norwood News began as a monthly and grew to a bi-weekly in 1994. In September 2003 the paper expanded to cover University Heights and now covers all the neighborhoods of Community District 7. The Norwood News exists to foster communication among citizens and organizations and to be a tool for neighborhood development efforts. The Norwood News runs the Bronx Youth Journalism Heard, a journalism training program for Bronx high school students. As you navigate this website, please let us know if you discover any glitches or if you have any suggestions. We’d love to hear from you. You can send e-mails to norwoodnews@norwoodnews.org or call us anytime (718) 324-4998.