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New York Lottery: Two Top-Prize Winning Tickets Sold in The Bronx

By SÍLE MOLONEY
The New York Lottery announced on Monday, Dec. 13, that a top-prize winning ticket was sold for the Dec. 12 TAKE 5 midday drawing. The ticket, worth $19,197.50, was purchased at He & Jay Stationery LLC, located at 123 Einstein Loop in the Baychester section of the borough.   Meanwhile, another top-prize winning ticket was sold for the Dec. 12 TAKE 5 evening drawing. That ticket, worth $36,075.50, was purchased at Tulcimex Deli Grocery, located at 1197 Byrant Avenue A in the Foxhurst section of the Bronx.   Take 5 players with midday and evening draws on the same ticket must


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UPDATE Out & About: Plena Libre at the Lehman Center, Holiday Tree Lighting, Art Classes & More!

By SÍLE MOLONEY
Editor’s Pick Bronx Community Board 7’s Holiday Tree Lighting event will take place on Tuesday, Dec. 7, at 6 p.m. at Mosholu Parkway Lawn at the intersection of Mosholu Parkway and Bainbridge Avenue. Come and enjoy this year’s Winter Wonderland where there will apple cider, hot chocolate, holiday activities & entertainment and of course, the tree lighting.   EVENTS  Van Cortlandt House Museum is hosting a Cozy Community Campfire on Sunday, Dec. 5, between 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. Gather together outdoors for a festive campfire, complete with free marshmallows and warm, mulled cider while supplies last. There will also be DIY s’mores kits


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UPDATE “Community Not Cops” & “Public Land in Public Hands” Rally Held in Crotona

By DAVID GREENE
Northwest Bronx Community & Clergy Coalition (NWBCCC) and its youth arm, Sistas & Brothas United, recently held a joint rally billed “Community Not Cops” and “Public Land in Public Hands,” in the Crotona section of the Bronx. During the event, they called for community input into the future development of City space, as well as an end to police officers patrolling the halls and stairways of New York City public schools.   The two dozen or so teens joined community land trust leaders on Saturday, Oct. 16, outside a fenced-off vacant lot located across the street from Crotona Park, at


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Mosholu Parkway Man Continues to Decline Help, Moves to New Location

By DAVID GREENE
  An unidentified man who, as reported, is currently homeless and had been living in a tent along the tree-lined center of Mosholu Parkway in Bedford Park in October, seems determined to stay in the neighborhood though, to date, he has refused different offers of assistance.   As reported, the man suddenly appeared in mid-October, at one stage constructing a makeshift tent of plywood and yellow tarp at Mosholu Parkway and Bainbridge Avenue, and was sometimes seen battling both wind and rain.   When residents called 311 in October about the man’s circumstances, officials from New York City’s departments of social


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UPDATE Jessica Altagracia Woolford Launches Bid to Replace Jeffrey Dinowitz in Assembly District 81

By SÍLE MOLONEY
  This is an updated version of our story first published in November 2021.   On Tuesday, Nov. 16, Jessica Altagracia Woolford, a Riverdale resident raised in Kingsbridge, announced her bid to replace Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz from New York State Assembly’s 81st district, via a bilingual digital campaign ad. Dinowitz has held the seat since 1994.   “I’m excited to make my case to the voters of the Northwest Bronx that it’s time for fresh leadership in the Assembly,” Altagracia Woolford said. “My abuela taught me that care should never be conditional. But the fact is, a lot of Bronxites


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CB7 Talks Organ Donation, Crime Prevention over the Holidays & Traffic Violations   

By JOSÉ A. GIRALT
  In a rare, combined meeting of Bronx Community Board 7’s (CB7) Health & Human Services and Public Safety & Quality of Life committees, attendees heard about the vital role organ donation can play in many Bronxites’ lives, as well as tips to help mitigate crime during the holiday shopping season.   The Health & Human Services committee meeting, held virtually on Nov. 16, invited Iliana Almanzar, the community and government affairs liaison for LiveOnNY, to speak on the importance of organ donation. Almanzar said the topic was a very important one which not a lot of people liked to


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Bronx DA Hosts Resource Fair for Formerly Incarcerated as Bailey’s Bill to Assist with Job Opportunities Passes

By SARAH HUFFMAN
  Bronx District Attorney (DA) Darcel D. Clark, together with officials from her office, hosted a fourth Bronx reentry, resource fair on Nov. 6, for individuals reentering the community after having served time in jail or prison. The event was held at Bronx Community Board 12 (CB12)’s office in the Wakefield section of the borough.   During the fair, Clark spoke to the crowd, thanking her office staff and various partner organizations for putting the work in to help the community. “I could not get this work done without the community-based organizations that believe in this work as well,” she


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POTS & Church Volunteers Serve 600 Free Meals as Physical Thanksgiving Gatherings Resume

By DAVID GREENE
For the 25th consecutive year, volunteers with Part of the Solution (POTS), soup kitchen and food pantry, and the Church of the Resurrection in Rye, New York, joined forces to serve an estimated 350 turkey meals on site to community residents at Our Lady of Refuge Church, located at 290 East 196th Street in Fordham Manor on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25.   Another 300 or so residents who had concerns about sitting and eating in a public setting amid the ongoing pandemic, or who were unable to provide proof of vaccination to enter the venue’s cafeteria, were provided with a


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