Local residents can now submit complaints and send e-mails to the Community Board 7 office through the new Web site.

After helping wage president-elect Barack Obama’s successful election campaign, University Heights resident and activist Haile Rivera and his girlfriend are packing there bags for Washington, D.C. to help Obama’s transition team.

A listing of public and community meetings for our readership in the northwest Bronx.

It is probable that only a small percentage of city residents can name their state legislators. But it’s hard to imagine that anyone in the northwest Bronx does not now – or won’t soon – know that their state senator is Pedro Espada.

After only seven murders during the first 10-and-a-half months of the year, the 52nd Precinct experienced three in one week in November, all of them within a four-block radius in North Fordham.

The city is trying once again to tack on another new and loathsome component to its already disastrous filtration plant project.

It proposes to snatch a chunk of parkland used by local kids to build a parking lot for the new golf course right next to Sachkerah Woods Playground, the only neighborhood benefit of what is shaping up to be the biggest boondoggle in Bronx history.

Because it’s technically for a park use, the city says it isn’t alienating additional parkland.

Maybe so, but after a litany of monumental screw-ups – not least of which is a tripling of the original price tag to around $3 billion – you’d think they’d shy from riling the community yet again and show a little sense.

And while golf is a recreational purpose, it is barely one that benefits this community enough to warrant slapping down more asphalt. After all, the parking lot is obviously for people who live far away from Norwood.

The city should stick to its original plan and keep the parking lot on the north side, where it is now and was originally slated for after the project’s completion.

Re: your article "Room for Improvement" (Nov. 27 – Dec. 10). It’s unfortunate to read about the shortcomings of the five-year plan for school construction in addressing overcrowding in District 10.

With the publication of this issue, I am celebrating having completed 20 years with the Norwood News.

Dogs bark because they sense danger. There are people who stand in front of other people’s doors and windows and tease a dog into barking. The dog is thinking correctly. These people are a danger.