Hello Loyal Readers!

The latest edition of the Norwood News, covering all things Norwood and its surrounding communities, is out with plenty of news you can use. We begin, of course, with page 1, and a front cover story on issues within the city Education Department’s Gifted and Talented programs.

Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr., and his counterpart in Brooklyn, Eric Adams, have a task force underway that’s examining these inequalities. Read the lengths parents are willing to make to ensure their kids are in a program that’s seen as a ticket to specialized high schools, which help pave a path to higher education and success.

Behind-the-cover stories include an editorial on a smarter, more streamlined way to get involved with Participatory Budgeting, a nine-month exercise that asks you how you would want to spend a small chunk of the city’s capital budget. There’s also the story on concerns of a new 13-story project being built at the corner of the Grand Concourse and Van Cortlandt Avenue South, and an ongoing sewer project that’s operating day and night. Meantime, David Greene takes you to the funeral of slain EMT Yadira Arroyo, horrifically killed while on the job.

We also present part four of Bronx Barriers, a collaboration between us and Fordham University’s prized radio news station, WFUV. We focus, time time, on health literacy, and posing the big question: can understanding your health produce better outcomes?

As usual, we have the regular staples–Inquiring Photographer, Neighborhood Notes, and Out & About–all intended to get you thinking or at least getting out the house to feed your cultural side.

So take a look at the latest edition, and don’t forget to send emails my way at dcruz@norwoodnews.org.

Until next time!

David