Talk about scientific advancement. In 2011, aspiring science students and faculty at Lehman College will move from Gillet Hall, a 1930s building that was never really designed for laboratory work, and other disparate campus quarters, to a stunning new "green" structure that will rise in the leafy campus’s northwest corner near the APEX gymnasium.

A listing community events, programs and services for our readers in the Bronx.

I realize, of course, that this is a local paper, dedicated to local news, yet I thought that we might want to chat about the economic situation via the Norwood News since this “crisis” and our government’s response is going to impact all of us.

I say, “No Bailout!” because the people involved with this “crisis” knew what they were doing and do not deserve to be “saved.” The banks made unscrupulous housing loans to people who could not really afford them but were duped by low initial interest rates. Then the banks packaged and sold these mortgages to investors, thereby creating a tangled web with no accountability between borrower and lender. Finally, as prices were dropping, these investor companies refused to adhere to any regulation and so instead of stopping the downward plummet, they let the market run amok.

In the Democratic primary on Sept. 9, Pedro Espada Jr., a Bronx businessman and a former state senator and councilman, defeated incumbent Efrain Gonzalez in the race for the 33rd State Senate District.

Oliver Koppell served 23 years in the State Assembly, a short stint as the state’s attorney general, several years as president of Community School Board 10, and now eight years in the City Council representing the 11th District, which covers all of Norwood and parts of Bedford Park. Despite the impressive resume, which includes his work as a private attorney, Koppell isn’t ready to complete his long run of public service when term limits will require him to step down after two Council terms on Dec. 31, 2009. He wants four more years.

Bronx Community Charter School celebrated the beginning of the school’s first year with a parade on Sept. 12. Students made hats and parents helped make noisemakers. A brand new elementary school option for District 10 parents, Bronx Community occupies the first floor of Jacob’s Place, an affordable housing development on Webster Avenue. The school, whose founders include Norwood residents Sasha Wilson and Kendra Sibley, opened with 100 students in kindergarten and first grade. 

Thirty-two-year-old Norwood resident Julio Flores has been charged with the gruesome murder of his ex-girlfriend, Jaritza Calderone, 28, who lived at 250 E. 176th St.

State Senator Jeffrey Klein released his annual "Dirty Dozen" list of the city’s most unsanitary restaurants based on inspection reports from the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

•    The Croton Facility Monitoring Committee will meet on Thursday, Sept. 18 at 7 p.m. For more information as well as the location, call (718) 231-8470. •    Community Board 7’s Education Committee will meet Friday, Sept. 19 at 6 p.m. at the board office, 229-A E. 204th St. For more information, call (718) 933-5650. •    Community Board 7’s Parks and Recreation Committee will meet Monday, Sept. 22 at 6:30 p.m. at the  board office, 229-A E. 204th St. For more information, call (718) 933-5650. •    Community Board 7’s Youth Services Committee will meet Thursday, Sept. 25 at 6 p.m. at

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