Report Details Reasons for Principal’s Removal
In July of 2007, former PS/MS 280 Principal Gary LaMotta quietly retired from the city’s Department of Education (DOE) amid accusations that were never fully disclosed to the school or the public in general.
However, the Norwood News recently obtained a copy of the top school investigator’s findings through a Freedom of Information Law request filed with the DOE. Its contents, portions of which were redacted ("to avoid the unwarranted invasion of privacy," according to the DOE), tell the story of a successful educator whose alleged abuse of authority led to his removal.
However, the Norwood News recently obtained a copy of the top school investigator’s findings through a Freedom of Information Law request filed with the DOE. Its contents, portions of which were redacted ("to avoid the unwarranted invasion of privacy," according to the DOE), tell the story of a successful educator whose alleged abuse of authority led to his removal.
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Help us build a groundbreaking news network from the ground up by sending a contribution for whatever you can afford to: Campaign for a Bronx News Network, c/o Norwood News, 3400 Reservoir Oval East, Bronx, NY 10467.
Well, we’re a nonprofit, too, and while we don’t have airwaves, we do have newsprint. And, as you can see on p. 3 and right here, we’re using some of it to invite you to think about the value of the newspaper you hold in your hands as well as our other efforts to bring hyper-local news to your fellow Bronxites in other neighborhoods as well.
With your help, we can create an innovative Network of nonprofit Bronx media that will strengthen existing papers like the Norwood News and Mount Hope Monitor, and eventually leave no neighborhood uncovered. We’re calling it the Campaign for Bronx News Network. We need your help to win this campaign, so please take a look at our letter to readers on p. 3 and send us a contribution today.
Help us build a groundbreaking news network from the ground up by sending a contribution for whatever you can afford to: Campaign for a Bronx News Network, c/o Norwood News, 3400 Reservoir Oval East, Bronx, NY 10467.
Espada is People’s Choice
I would like to respond to the letter by Patrick Wynne (Nov. 13 – 26) and his derogatory remarks about State Senator-elect Pedro Espada. In the first place, Espada won a hard-fought election against an entrenched Albany fixture, and campaigned throughout the district and in all neighborhoods. His margin of victory was 20 points. With all due respect to Norwood News editor Jordan Moss, for you to state that his spouse, Margaret Groarke, is more representative of the district when she did not campaign or face the voters, is highly presumptuous and speculative on your part. Pedro Espada is the
In Support of Animal Shelter
I’m writing to support the animal shelter discussed in your recent cover story (“Library to Be Animal Shelter,” Nov. 13 – 26). It should be noted that the current Animal Care and Control building in the Bronx is a part-time drop-off site that is only open a few days a week. There are a number of ways it could prove beneficial to the community, including if the city’s Animal Care and Control continues its program of high schoolers working with animals. Having worked with cats and dogs, professionally as an author for magazines, I know my relationship with dogs and
Don’t Close Senior Centers
The following letter was addressed to Mayor Michael Bloomberg: I am a member of the Mosholu Montefiore Senior Center and would like to express my feelings regarding your plan for senior centers. Closing these centers to handicapped or not handicapped will be a fatal blow. Those who will be deprived of the privilege of this membership will have no place to go. How will the gap be filled? There seems to be money for everyone else but seniors. They have no bailout. This attempt to save money will end up costing more money for additional nursing homes, hospitals and institutions.
Preparing for ‘Messiah’
A high note bounces off the considerable walls and ceilings of the sanctuary at the Fordham United Methodist Church, reverberating through the room. It hangs for a beat. Soon, more notes follow and the room comes alive as the familiar sounds of Handel’s “Messiah, Part One,” sung by the church’s choir, animate a local institution whose long history nearly mirrors that of the Bronx itself.
Westphal Honored as ‘Living Legend’
Dart Westphal, president of Mosholu Preservation Corporation and publisher of the Norwood News, was honored by the Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) at its 2008 Living Legends awards ceremony on Nov. 13. The award was bestowed upon "four individuals who have dedicated their lives to making the Bronx a better and stronger place." In addition to Westphal, CAB gave the Living Legend Award to Eric Soto, director of Bronx public affairs at Con Edison; Verona Greenland, president and CEO of the Morris Heights Health Center; and Fr. John Grange, longtime pastor of St. Jerome’s Church and current pastor of St. Athanasius Church.