To coincide with a national day of action for the peace movement on Saturday, Oct. 27, the hearty group manned their stations and were met with thunderous honking. Events and marches occurred across the country, but the 15 Kittay House seniors who braved the elements in wheelchairs and walkers were just as dedicated as the thousands who marched in Manhattan and elsewhere.

Bronx State Senator Efrain Gonzalez’s federal trial for corruption and fraud charges has been postponed until late April 2008 at the earliest, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, which is prosecuting the case.

Policeman Jose, 7, and maid Lisa, 10, were just two of the students who packed the cafeteria at PS 291 last Friday night for the school’s annual Halloween dance.

Check out the community events and programs happening in the northwest Bronx.

The Class of 2008 at the Academy of Mount St. Ursula, an all-girls private school in Bedford Park, continued a 48-year-old tradition when they skated down the Grand Concourse on Friday morning, Oct. 19, for the school’s annual Ring Day Skate.

Last issue, the Norwood News began its annual school preview. This issue, we were able to speak with two more schools about their plans for this year and beyond.

Though not in Yankee-Red Sox territory just yet, a fledgling local rivalry was permanently forged last Saturday in the woods of Van Cortlandt Park.

Check out all the entertaining and interesting events and performances happening in the northwest Bronx.

With the walls decorated with orange balloons for Halloween weekend and more than 100 community supporters in attendance, St. Philip Neri Church and School at Bedford Park hosted its first annual dinner dance fund-raiser Saturday night with the help of hit freestyle artist George Lamond.