Every June, the same circus comes to town. The Rent Guidelines Board (RGB), a group of nine appointed by the mayor, holds public hearings before determining what rent increases landlords may ask in the coming year. This year, the proposed rent increases are 2 to 5.5 percent for one-year lease renewals, and 4 to 7.5 percent for two-year lease renewals.

Business and Credit Workshops All State Foundation and ACCION New York are sponsoring two free upcoming seminars: “Marketing Your Business to Make More Money” will be held June 20 at 2:30 p.m. at SoBRO, 555 Bergen St., and “Maxed Out! Take Control of Your Credit Card Debt” will take place June 27 at 6 p.m. at the Bronx Business Solutions Center at 358 E. 149th St., Lower Level. For more information, call (212) 387-0377 ext. 309. Speech and Literacy Program The Mount Saint Ursula Speech Center is accepting applications for enrollment in its summer program. Children ages two to 16

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A little more than a month after four young men were shot outside of Tracey Towers (two suspects from across Mosholu Parkway in the Knox-Gates neighborhood were arrested for the crime), a 38-year-old man was shot in the chest in the woods near the Knox-Gates playground.

The students of the Bronx New School, all 250 of them, want to tell you about a few of their favorite things. Raindrops on roses. Whiskers on kittens. These are just a few of their favorite things. All right, so maybe they’re famous songwriting duo Rodgers and Hammerstein’s favorite things.

Ursula Students Win Awards, Scholarships Awards for Darfur Work At the 34th Annual Eddy Awards, sponsored by Instructional Television (ITV) of the Archdiocese of New York, Mount St. Ursula students took home five awards for their broadcast work on the theme, "The Cries of Darfur."  Wendy Hado ’07, Enuma Igweatu ’07, Shani Ogilivie ’10, Kathleen Chiluiza ’07, Sakia Miller ’09, Sheryl Hado, and Chikaodili Okaneme ’07 formed the news team that won an award for their overall work and individual stories. The team was led by faculty member Joan Sipe. Awards for Latin Thirteen Latin students at Mount St. Ursula

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Norwood’s Young Star Wine and Liquors Store reopened a few weeks ago, way ahead of schedule, with the help of some friends.

The New York Botanical Garden hosts their annual Farmers Market, with fruits and vegetables and home-baked goods from New York State through October.

Dr. Penny Grant tells a horror story about an Oklahoma woman, a mother ravaged by the exhausting effects of crystal methamphetamine addiction, who slept through her baby burning to death.

One species of rose, Cherry Parfait, to see before the end of Rose Month, at the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden of the New York Botanical Garden.