Following a story about the Kingsbridge Armory in our previous issue, "Armory Rumors Fly as Waiting Game Continues," representatives from the Kingsbridge Armory Redevelopment Alliance (KARA) contacted the Norwood News. They wanted to say that, contrary to what Teresa Anderson, the president of Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition (a member of KARA), said at the time, Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrión had indeed agreed to meet with them.

Through yoga-based rehabilitation, researchers are working to see if mind-body therapy can help those suffering from breast, lung, colon and rectal cancers.

The Lehman College Lightning women’s basketball team ended the Baruch College Bearcats’ three-year, 38-game regular season winning streak when the fierce rivals met at Lehman’s APEX Arena in Bedford Park on Saturday, Feb. 9.

Two of the best swimmers in DeWitt Clinton High School history, Leonardo and Abel Dupres, are heading to the Federation State Boys Swimming Tournament on Long Island to represent both their school and their borough beginning on Feb. 28.

The cool weather on Sunday morning, Feb. 10, didn’t stop more than 4,600 people from running a half-marathon through the northwest Bronx.

In a perfect example of “grandstanding,” Congress is conducting yet another investigation of the use of steroids and other performance enhancing drugs in Major League Baseball.

Now that baseball has so belatedly begun investigating and regulating itself, Congress sees an opportunity to avoid many of our most serious national issues by making a play for headlines, holding hearings on matters already brought to light in the Mitchell Report.

And what better headline grabber than baseball’s most celebrated pitcher, Roger Clemens. Fans have long loved Clemens when he pitched for their team and hated him when he was pitching against them. New York fans remember the famous feud between Clemens of the Yankees and Mike Piazza of the Mets.
But the current round of Congressional hearings seems more designed to get Clemens to commit perjury than to prevent the use of steroids or HGH (human growth hormones).

Congratulations! Finally, someone has managed to get the NYPD to release crime statistics on a neighborhood by neighborhood basis. Unfortunately for us, this only confirms that our neighborhood is what we have always considered it: the most dangerous place to live in the 52nd Precinct. Sector “G,” otherwise known as “George,” where Our Lady of Refuge Parish resides, is first in homicides and burglaries, tied for first in felony assaults (which includes shootings), second in robberies, tied for second in rapes, and third in grand larcenies. We don’t live in precincts, we live in neighborhoods. We don’t want to hear

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Students from four music groups at the Cecilia Cruz Bronx High School of Music traveled to Walt Disney World on Feb. 15 to perform at its annual “Magic Music Days.” This honor marked the second time in three years the school has been selected to participate in this event.

When Rita Martinez’s second grade class at PS 291 decided to perform a dramatization of the children’s book "Something Beautiful," they were unaware that they were actually delving into the history of their own school.