If a high-ranking City official lies to a New York Times reporter and the Times prints it, the paper has an obligation to follow-up with a correction, retraction, or further study to explain it.

There are rumors that Jose Rivera, Assemblyman and Bronx County Democratic Chairman, will be selected by Council Speaker Christine Quinn to fill the position of City Clerk, from which Victor Robles has recently retired.

Twelve students graduated from Montefiore Medical Center Summer Health Careers Internship program earlier this month in a ceremony at the hospital’s Cherkasky Auditorium. The program, which is one of four like it in the country and began in 2002, links high school and college students with Montefiore staff mentors, many of whom share the same cultural and social backgrounds as the students.

High school senior Jorge Hernandez, sporting a mini-afro, sagging jeans and a business-like demeanor, dropped his backpack and emphatically tossed his black baseball bat to the side as he strode onto a stage in Van Cortlandt Park.

The first rehearsal for the Lehman College Chorus, which meets Mondays and Wednesdays from 3:30 to 5 p.m., will be held on Monday, Aug. 27. The Lehman College Community Chorus, which meets on Tuesdays from 7 to 9:30 p.m., will start Tuesday, Aug. 28. Community members are welcome to join either chorus.

The newest business addition to Norwood, Sunshine Photo Studio, represents just another family trying to carve out a little niche of their own on the 204th Street strip.

The Fordham Road Business Improvement District is renewing its Fordham Road "Advantage" program, providing the students, faculty and staff of all local colleges, institutions, medical facilities and healthcare training centers with discounts at 62 businesses on Fordham Road.

here’s culture for the whole family at ¡Retumba!, an all-women Afro-Caribbean troupe of singers, dancers and instrumentalists on Aug. 24 at 4 p.m.; and The Ray Abrams Big Swing Band, jazz music by a live 17-piece group on Aug. 25 at 2:30 p.m. Both are at the Bronx Library Center, at 310 E. Kingsbridge Rd. off Fordham Road.

Women in Steel, an all-female steel drum orchestra and female development organization based in Brooklyn, will be performing Aug. 23 as part of the Carribean Nights series at the Botanical Garden. See Onstage.