Robyn Anderson-Malico, a nurse at the James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center in University Heights was one of 10 honorees nationwide to be given the National Cherokee Inspired Comfort Award. The award is given out yearly to recognize health care professionals and nurses who leave a lasting impression on patients with their outstanding service.

Benny Ninja performs at the Bronx Academy of Arts & Dance (BAAD!) in the south Bronx on Oct. 6 as part of the BlakTino Performance Series. See Onstage in our Out & About section for more details about this and other upcoming events in the Bronx.

Opera performer and Bedford Park resident Anna Tonna, the recipient of a 2007 – 2008 Fulbright Award in Voice, leaves for Spain this month to study the Spanish composers who have so influenced her craft.

At the Jerome Gun Hill BID Festival last Saturday, Dale "The Mouth" Boone raised his arms in what he thought was a certain cookie eating contest victory. He was wrong.

At the Jerome Gun Hill BID Festival last Saturday, Dale "The Mouth" Boone raised his arms in what he thought was a certain cookie eating contest victory. He was wrong.

With construction beginning in just nine months, many details concerning a new state-of-the-art building, slated for the PS 94 campus in Norwood, have yet to be determined by the city’s Department of Education.

Frances Alberta Lewis, a tireless community activist and a Norwood resident for more than half a century, passed away peacefully, Sept. 8, in Norfolk, Virginia. She was 91.

As the school year starts, over three million children in the Bronx are on their way back. Growing concern over the nation-topping asthma rates in the schools has led to a new bill signed into law by Governor Eliot Spitzer.

Once a supporter of the war in Iraq, Congressman Eliot Engel declared at a congressional hearing that it is “someone else’s civil war.” At a joint Congressional committee hearing on Iraq, Engel disagreed with the rosy assessment given by General Petraeus, stating that, “The American people are fed up and I’m fed up.”