Last September, when the city replaced most whole milk offerings in schools with one percent and skim milk in the public schools, little notice was paid. But it was a hard-won, homegrown victory for kids’ health that was led by a group of Bronx health advocates, educators and parents.

Harlem residents, elected officials and community leaders converged last week on the midtown offices of the controversial Pinnacle Group to denounce the company’s practices.

City Council members are asking new questions about the Bronx Meals on Wheels pilot for homebound seniors. Council Member Maria del Carmen Arroyo, the new Aging Committee chair, protested a cut to senior meals in a budget hearing this month. She also criticized the cost effectiveness of the controversial program in a statement issued after the hearing.

The committee set up by the City Council to monitor the construction of the water filtration plant in Van Cortlandt Park has a new look, leaving the immediate community’s sole representative owith concerns that it will lose a critical local perspective.

The family living in the Tracey Towers apartment destroyed by a fire last month says the incident could have been prevented if management had responded to prior repair requests.

After 30 years as a New Yorker, Felix Grimaldo decided it was finally time to become an American. Grimaldo, 66, sure seemed like one. He paid his taxes on income from a range of jobs that included cooking for Wall Street workers, staffing a Hilton hotel and igniting Malibu 151 as a bartender of exotic Polynesian drinks. His English was good. His baseball vocabulary was better.

An explosive fire erupted at Tracey Towers on Feb. 26, leaving charred apartments and extensive damage to several floors of the complex. The three-alarm fire was the second blaze in less than a month at the troubled development.

Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz is sparring with a real estate company after its officials denied treating two of his constituents improperly.

Modern playground equipment, new shrubbery and more are on tap for the Devoe Park renovation project, which is expected to begin this spring and take about a year to complete.