A student worker is pictured here in Poe Park on the last day of the Summer Youth Employment Program on Aug. 16. Thousands of teens were deployed by the Mosholu Montefiore Community Center to fill jobs at local stores, businesses and nonprofits. Twenty-three of these local high school students worked with Mosholu Preservation Corporation (publisher of this newspaper) to improve Poe Park, St. James Park, Williamsbridge Oval and Mosholu Parkway. Led by six mentors from local colleges, the students spent their summer improving erosion control, reestablishing turf, painting park structures and clearing pathways to make Bronx parks better for the entire community.
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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.