Croton Facility Monitoring Committee will meet on Thursday, Oct. 18 at 7 p.m. at the DEP Outreach Office, 3660 Jerome Ave. There will be reports on costs, jobs, storm/ground water and more. For more information, call (718) 231-8470. Community Education Council 10 will meet on Thursday, Oct. 18 at 6:15 p.m. at PS/MS 279, 2100 Walton Ave. The topic will be Physical Education. For more information, call (718) 741-5836. 52nd Precinct Community Council will meet Thursday, Oct. 18 at 7 p.m. at St. Philip Neri, 3031 Grand Concourse. For more information, call (718) 220-5824. Bedford Mosholu Community Association will meet

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Construction will begin next spring on a new four-story building on the PS/MS 95 campus. When completed, most of the building will serve as the new home of the Ampark Neighborhood School, which is now using a smaller building across the street.

In our last issue, we reported on th-e drastic changes under way on Grand Avenue and surrounding blocks. Large, beautiful homes, some with wraparound porches, are being bulldozed for ugly, cookie-cutter, multi-family dwellings that scar our neighborhoods. You know the ones – the uniform, non-brick structures, with Fedders air conditioners, all concrete-and-driveway front yards, and no room for grass or trees. Maybe it’s too late to protect the historic homes, and maybe extremely spacious one-family homes are just not suitable for most families who want to live here.

As we’ve stated too many (or maybe not enough) times in this space, problems only get fixed when people who identify them are willing to identify themselves. Neighbors with similar feelings aren’t able to link arms with complainers in the shadows.

I understand the concerns of Annette Melendez regarding the differences between having loose sand blowing up or slippery rocks underfoot in Williamsbridge Oval Park (letter, Oct. 4-17, 2007), but since there will be a covering of some kind there, is plastic grass the only answer? Green, healthy grass (maintained in good order!) is wonderful to walk or lie on, safer if a child should fall on it, and more aesthetic and better for the environment as a whole. Jennifer Dent

It was with great sadness and disappointment that I realized that a time-honored holiday tradition of the Bronx is no more. I refer to “Halloween on Haunted Walk” which had been held the Saturday prior Halloween at the New York Botanical Garden. It was a lovely way to spend the day. Children dressed in costumes would walk through a “haunted” pathway to see witches and wizards, ghouls and ghosts and giant puppets designed by Ralph Lee. It is the loss of these traditional community events that erodes our way of life. Cultural institutions should realize that commitment to the community

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It was great to read in your recent article, "Hopes for Center Connect Community and Candidates" (Oct. 4 – 17, 2007) that there are two community organizations that want to see the old Fordham Library take on "community space" instead of designating it to a developer. As a former Community Board 7 member, I know Rev. Fernando Cabrera well. Ironically, his church is located on the same block I lived on 26 years ago (at that time it was an old synagogue). I want to congratulate him on his entree into higher civic life. Seeing wonderful people like Rev. Cabrera

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Bronx homicide detectives are looking for a group of men who broke into the basement home of a suspected drug dealer, demanded money and property before shooting the victim, who later died.

The unidentified 11-year-old witness and sister of homicide victim Quachaun Brown, 4, testified against murder suspect Jose Calderon, 20, at the Bronx County Courthouse on Tuesday, Oct. 9.