The ninth annual Bronx Walk of Fame induction ceremony capped off the weeklong celebration of Bronx Week.

Plans to build a housing complex for former homeless people and low-income families on the southeast corner of East 204th Street and Villa Avenue in Bedford Park have infuriated local residents and community leaders.

Builder Peter Fine unveiled his colorful and detailed Kingsbridge Armory redevelopment proposal at Community Board 7 two weeks ago, hoping to bypass a laborious city process for choosing a developer. The city plans to issue a request for proposals (RFP) in August that would essentially open the door to any interested firm to present their vision for the mammoth landmark.

Pick up any piece of fruit at a supermarket or bodega and there’s bound to be a sticker on it with its place of origin – Mexico, California, Georgia, etc. But at the 2-year-old Norwood Food Co-op, there are no stickers. What co-op members get instead is fresh, delicious produce delivered every week by upstate farmer Zaid Kurdieh. They learn about vegetables most have never tried before, like fennel, tat soi, and heirloom tomatoes.

Shawn Ramos and Benjamin Berrios were wearing wide grins last Friday at MS 80’s first annual curriculum fair. And with good reason: the seventh graders, together with 53 of their peers, were each taking home a brand new Dell laptop, theirs to keep until they graduate high school.

A large industrial property in the southeast Bronx has emerged as a potential new home for two National Guard units now housed in the annex behind the Kingsbridge Armory.

The controversial practices of the Pinnacle Group, a city real estate company, have started to attract citywide attention and scrutiny. Since 2002, the company has purchased over 400 buildings in lower-income communities across every borough, save Staten Island. Tenants have suffered through a variety of serious problems since, as the Norwood News reported last October.

If I ever teach a journalism class, I will assign my students Heather Haddon’s article on the Op-Ed Page. To me, it beautifully captures everything that is right with this profession. And it punctures an enduring myth about this line of work and the people that practice it. Too many people believe, or are taught, that reporters are not supposed to care too much about their subjects.

The first time I walked out of the Mosholu Parkway No. 4 train station – well before I worked for the Norwood News – something clicked. I was instantly drawn to Jerome Avenue and its throngs of shoppers, workers and high-schoolers. This was a nice place. Perhaps I’d come back. I did – over 1,000 times. In my four years at the Norwood News, I’ve written about 603 stories. We’ve run roughly 254 of my photos. I have managed production on 98 issues, gone through 22 notebooks (140 sheets each), and attended dozens of meetings. My thousand-plus days working here have been busily consistent. They have never been dull.