Not too long ago a coyote was spotted at Woodlawn Cemetery. Turkeys patrol the woods of Van Cortlandt Park. Hawks soar over Tracey Towers. But no animal sighting has stirred as much national – and international – buzz as Jose the beaver, who has taken up residence in the Bronx River near the Bronx Zoo. Google the little guy and you’ll find there have been over 600,000 news items and almost 1,200 blogs mentioning the beaver.

Before the madness finally ended, a jolt of March basketball excitement surged through the northwest Bronx with the Lehman College women’s team’s victory over top-seeded Baruch College two weeks ago in the CUNY championship. The Lightning’s thrilling upset win, 52-51, marked the school’s first CUNY Championship and its first birth into the Big Dance – the NCAA Division III National Tournament.

Shareholders, property managers and a minority of the board of directors at the Fordham Hill Owners Corporation are outraged because they say a united majority (six out of nine) of board members are making sweeping changes to the co-operative housing complex without approval or even input from anyone but themselves. Some shareholders have even dubbed the majority group the "Fordham Hill Mafia."

Gary LaMotta, the longtime principal of PS/MS 280, one of the northwest Bronx and District 10’s most successful schools, was reassigned on Feb. 5 to the Region One office pending an internal investigation.

A controversial confidentiality agreement is threatening to derail the selection process as New York City searches for a developer to renovate the Kingsbridge Armory in the northwest Bronx.

John Reilly loves his home on 202nd Street near the Grand Concourse, the home his grandfather purchased that now houses a fourth generation of Reilly’s. But while he never considered the house to be on beachfront property, his insurance company, Allstate, decided the home was too close to the Atlantic coast and for that reason would not renew his policy after over 20 years of coverage.

A fire broke out in a restaurant kitchen on Feb. 12, and by the time 168 firefighters tamed it two and a half hours later, a decade’s worth of Kingsbridge Road businesses had gone up in smoke.

When it comes to choosing a development proposal for the Kingsbridge Armory is the city interested in what the community thinks, or isn’t it?

The race to redevelop the Kingsbridge Armory into a massive mixed-use facility is now a three-way contest. While the city’s Economic Development Corporation (EDC), the quasi-public entity spearheading the Armory’s development, remains tight-lipped about which developers submitted proposals, the Norwood News learned that three candidates have thrown their hats in the ring.