The staff at Lehman College’s Institute for Literacy Studies had no idea that Christopher Perkins, the quiet guy who had worked there for a decade, was such a talented writer. They figured it out when he left.

Various stories, including: Bronx Boom or Bust, Ballot Initiatives, Senior Funding, Comings and Goings, Making Law, and Focus on Chocolate.

Mark your calendars. The memory-drenched Loew’s Paradise Theatre on the Grand Concourse will reopen in style on Oct. 29 with a gala concert featuring Puerto Rican music star Gilberto Santo Rosa.

The great Bronx radio tower tiff is history. Eleven years after the construction of a mammoth antenna for the WFUV radio station on the Fordham University campus enraged its neighbors at the New York Botanical Garden, officials from both institutions and Montefiore Medical Center watched the biggest crane in New York City hoist a new tower and antenna atop a Montefiore-owned apartment building in Norwood.

Various stories, including: Chavez Falls for The Bronx, Unsafe School Crossing, More Buses, Comings and Goings, and Making Law.

The blue, round coastal evacuation route signs that first started cropping up in the area more than a year ago may come in handy sooner than you think.

Nearly 20 supporters of the Bronx River Alliance boarded a trolley on Sept. 22 at the Bronx River Art Center on East Tremont Avenue for a trip to the Burke Avenue Bridge, just north of French Charley’s Playground in Norwood. Participants in the fundraiser enjoyed refreshments and a view of the river as the sun set. The banks and forest surrounding the river were recently restored and boardwalks have been installed.

If you’re not registered to vote, you can only vote in the general election on Nov. 8 if you register by Oct. 14.

In our Sept. 8 – 21 issue, reader Nat Solomon wrote in to inquire about the fate of hundreds of hexagonal blocks piled in a dumpster outside the northern entrance of Williamsbridge Oval Park where construction of a new entrance is under way.