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Longtime Community Advocate Chad Royer Continues Treatment for Multiple Myeloma

By SÍLE MOLONEY
Chad Royer, longtime community advocate, who is a member of Bronx Community Board (CB7) and the chair of the CB7 veterans committee, has, as reported, been undergoing treatment in recent months for multiple myeloma, an incurable but treatable form of blood cancer that affects plasma cells in the bone marrow. He recently shared an update on his health with Norwood News. 

Bronx Man & NJ Man Get Three Years Each for Running $65 Million+ Illicit Money Transfer Scheme

By SÍLE MOLONEY
A Bronx man and his partner have each been sentenced to three years in prison for running an unlicensed money transfer business responsible for illicitly transferring more than $65 million between the United States and countries in the Middle East, including Yemen, Turkey, Iraq, the United Arab Emirates, and Jordan, federal officials announced on Wednesday, April 23. 

UPDATE Bally’s, Nuns & Preston Strike Deal on JLo’s Former H.S. after AG Hearing; Other Catholic Schools Not So Lucky

By SÍLE MOLONEY & DAVID GREENE
Maybe it was divine intervention but a day after the announcement that His Holiness, Pope Francis had died, in a mayor victory for the Throggs Neck Catholic community in the East Bronx, Preston High School, the Sisters of the Divine Compassion, and Bally’s Foundation of North America announced on Tuesday, April 8, that the parties had finalized an agreement that will ensure Preston High School remains open and thriving for years to come. The Sisters have owned the property on which the school is built since 1947, while Bally’s Foundation, a charitable nonprofit organization, is linked to Bally’s Corporation, the operator of Bally’s Golf Links in Throggs Neck’s Ferry Point, the site of a planned casino.