Here’s the first of this week’s Bronx News Roundups. These are the Bronx news stories we’re following today.

Bronx native Justice Sonia Sotomayor is talking about affirmative action and diversity outside of the Bronx while promoting her new memoir, “My Beloved World,” due out this week. An “affirmative action baby” herself, Sotomayor takes the opportunity to discuss today’s affirmative-action plan, suggesting that it isn’t the same program that assisted her in her journey to Princeton, and then, of course, to the highest court in the nation. Read more about Sotomayor in the New York Times , and check out her interview on The Today Show.

According to the New York Times, two men — the former owner of Schlesinger-Siemens Electrical and a former company executive — are expected to be charged with two cases of fraud in connection with contracting work for the city’s long-troubled Croton Water Filtration Plant project in Van Cortlandt Park. The first case is for allegedly claiming that the company was hiring minority or women owned contractors, a city contract requirement, when, in fact, the services were provided by Schlesinger-Siemens instead. The second is for failing to hire a master electrician (another requirement for big government projects), which the company had gone without for years.

In other crime news, CBS reports that police are searching for a young black man in his 20s who robbed and shot a cab driver three times in the South Bronx early Sunday morning. According to reports, the suspect was described as wearing a tan bubble jacket and an “Abercrombie” dark hoodie.

If you know any information, please call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS (8477).

And finally, a little Bronx history lesson from the Daily News: The Bronx Parks system was created 125 years ago, even before the Bronx became a borough. The Historic Districts Council is leading an effort to celebrate the milestone.

“The parks themselves were a framework around which the whole borough developed,” said legendary Norwood News co-founder Dart Westphal, who is chairing the Bronx Parks 125th Anniversary Committee.

That’s it for today. Send links, news tips, photos, memories, gripes and letter to us at norwoodnews@norwoodnews.org.