Happy Friday, and welcome to today’s Bronx News Roundup. Here are the stories we’re following today, starting with this weekend’s weather: high of 88, morning sunshine will give way to thunderstorms, some of which may be severe, in the afternoon. Tonight, scattered thunderstorms. Chance for isolated thunderstorms lasts through Saturday, Sunday will be partly cloudy. Highs in the low 80s and high 70s.

Although State Senator Ruben Diaz Sr. is still recovering from a knee transplant, the Daily News is reporting he’s still keep track of all local politicos and hopefuls who have paid him visits in the hospital.

Meanwhile, son and Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. ousted more than a dozen members of Community Board 9, including longtime chairperson Al Hayward. [Bronx Times]

The Riverdale Press is reporting that the Board of Elections is refusing to take responsibility for the error-ridden Congressional primary in June.

NY1 reports on the status of the always-controversial Croton Filtration Plant during the network’s Bronx Week.

The Croton Filtration Plant construction site was also the site of arson when four men set fire to a trailer and shed earlier this month. [Riverdale Press]

Morris Park area parents are upset at the Department of Education over a school lottery system which is sending most students to schools far from home, The Bronx Times reports.

The Department of Transportation has officially handed over maintenance of the rose gardens by Yankee Stadium to the 161st Business Improvement District. DNAinfo reported earlier this summer on how the DOT let weeds overrun the rosebushes until volunteers from the BID cleaned it up themselves.

The Parkchester Post Office has been dedicated to honor the memory of Private Isaac Cortes, a Bronx soldier killed in Iraq in 2007. [NY1]

The Bronx trial for alleged mob getaway driver Paul “Doc” Gaccione isn’t going well for him after testimony the last two weeks from other former gangsters. [NY Post]

Bronx-born urban revitalization strategist Majora Carter posed in front of Hunts Point’ Spofford Juvenile Detention Center for the Goddess on Earth portrait book. Photographer Lisa Levart shares her experience in the South Bronx with The Huffington Post, and the result is stunning.

The Boston Red Sox are visiting the Yankees in the Bronx this weekend, but the rivalry isn’t what it used to be — not that Yankees fans mind watching the Red Sox fall apart. [NBC New York]

That’s it for today. Send links and news tips to us at norwoodnews@norwoodnews.org.