Bagpipers play at the Bronx County Courthouse on Sept. 9 for the annual 9-11 memorial service. For the first time, a new borough president, Ruben Diaz Jr., addressed an audience of people who had lost a loved one to the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center eight years ago. It’s an annual event at the Courthouse, but the first without former B.P. Adolfo Carrion, who’s now working in the Obama administration. He spoke eloquently and talked about the 143 victims who lived or worked in the Bronx who died that day. “They were people who served us, they were people who worked for us, they were individuals who protected us,” he said. “They were our friends, our family, our neighbors.”
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Welcome to the Norwood News, a bi-weekly community newspaper that primarily serves the northwest Bronx communities of Norwood, Bedford Park, Fordham and University Heights. Through our Breaking Bronx blog, we focus on news and information for those neighborhoods, but aim to cover as much Bronx-related news as possible. Founded in 1988 by Mosholu Preservation Corporation, a not-for-profit affiliate of Montefiore Medical Center, the Norwood News began as a monthly and grew to a bi-weekly in 1994. In September 2003 the paper expanded to cover University Heights and now covers all the neighborhoods of Community District 7. The Norwood News exists to foster communication among citizens and organizations and to be a tool for neighborhood development efforts. The Norwood News runs the Bronx Youth Journalism Heard, a journalism training program for Bronx high school students. As you navigate this website, please let us know if you discover any glitches or if you have any suggestions. We’d love to hear from you. You can send e-mails to norwoodnews@norwoodnews.org or call us anytime (718) 324-4998.