Together Patty Doyle and Lisa Concelacion have decades of nursing experience. Still, neither had seen anything like the Aguirre brothers, the world-famous conjoined twins who were successfully separated after four surgeries in 2003 and 2004 at the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore.

Mosholu Preservation Corporation, the nonprofit that publishes the Norwood News, works to make our neighborhoods nicer places to live and work. We were founded to make the area nicer for Montefiore, but we also make it nicer for everyone. We work alongside numerous organizations to improve things in as many ways as we can.

Council Member Oliver Koppell, a Democratic favorite son in Riverdale politics for decades, will face a primary challenge next September from someone he has appointed to important community positions.

Though four lawsuits have now been filed in an attempt to stop the construction of a filtration plant at Mosholu Golf Course in Van Cortlandt Park, the city has already begun preliminary work at the site.

Nearly 200 soldiers from the 145th Maintenance Company of the Army National Guard, based out of the Kingsbridge Armory, said their goodbyes on Nov. 19, and will shortly be headed for an unknown destination in Iraq.

If there is a certain measure that Mayor Bloomberg is out of touch on a particular issue, it is when all 51 members of the City Council vote for something that he opposes.

Once again, we urge our readers to shop locally this holiday season wherever possible.

In this issue, we report on a National Guard unit based at the Kingsbridge Armory that will soon be headed for Iraq.

Suzana Dedivanaj-Spruck’s abrupt death earlier this year sparked media attention across the tri-state area, but last month it was those closest to the dedicated teacher – her colleagues, her students and her family – who took time out to remember the young educator who returned to work at the school she had gone to herself.