The Bronx’s most heated and contentious political race is being fought on multiple fronts – in the blogosphere, across two counties, at local meetings, in various court rooms and on YouTube. Welcome to the bizarre world of the 33rd District Senate race.

The city can’t blast at the Jerome Park Reservoir until a Sept. 3 court hearing, a state Supreme Court justice ordered.

In his speech at a recent groundbreaking ceremony at Harris Park, Bronx Parks Commissioner Hector Aponte braced the audience for change. "It’s a long time coming, but take a look around, because what you see will soon be unrecognizable," Aponte said.

Two businesses on Bedford Park Boulevard plan on erecting signs to block the view of a huge new and possibly illegal sign and awning protruding from a bold new neighbor’s storefront. The businesses say the enormous signage is blocking their own signs and hurting their bottom line.

As of Tuesday afternoon before the Norwood News went to press, it was still up in the air whether State Senator Efrain Gonzalez’s trial on federal fraud and corruption charges would go forward as scheduled on Oct. 6.

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and Bronx City Council members Joel Rivera and Oliver Koppell all want schools built in the Kingsbridge Armory project to reduce school overcrowding, they said at a roundtable discussion with Bronx journalists in late July.

The race for a seat on the Bronx Civil Court has gotten a lot more interesting, thanks to some upper-level political machinations. A coalition of legislators opposing Bronx Democratic party leader and Assemblyman Jose Rivera, have backed an opponent to Rivera’s pick for the open judgeship.

The Norwood News sponsored a Pregones Theater  performance of Migrants! In Williamsbridge Oval Park on Aug. 6. About 200 residents attended and most stayed afterwards for a performance of the Ibrahim Gonzalez Quintet, which was sponsored by Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition, and the BLOOMS Initiative.

Hundreds of west Bronx bus riders are calling for the city to make traveling from Fordham Road to Manhattan easier by restoring local service to Manhattan and restoring a bus stop that was eliminated with the debut of the new, supposedly faster Select Bus Service.