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Bronx News Roundup, Jan. 18

Happy Friday everyone and welcome to another edition of the Bronx News Roundup. These are the Bronx stories we’re following today.

We’ll start with some footage of the cute new Baby Gibbon at the Bronx Zoo:

Big news from the Riverdale Press about DeWitt Clinton High School. The DOE, which said it would not be closing the venerable Mosholu Parkway school, is now planning to co-locate two smaller and separate schools within Clinton’s building and reduce Clinton’s enrollment.

MSNBC picks up the story of the “Bronx Obama”, Louis Ortiz.

A Bronx couple talks about winning two tickets to President Obama’s inauguration on Monday, NY1 reports.

The Daily News reports
that some Bronx parents of special ed students are particularly struggling to deal with the yellow bus driver’s strike, now in its third day.

The Huffington Post has more on the Seis Del Sur exhibit that starts tomorrow at the Bronx Documentary Center.

Priests at Bronx churches say thieves are taking advantage of parishioners, even sometimes during services, reports PIX.

Good juice from Kappy at the Bronx Times about the Bronx pushing for a ninth Council seat and more.

And finally, we’ll end on an upbeat note with this NY1 story of three transit cops who helped deliver a baby at the Yankee Stadium 4 train station.

That’s it for today. Have a great weekend and Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Send links, news tips, photos, poems and gripes to us at norwoodnews@norwoodnews.org.

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