Health Check: Healthy Snacks and Meals for a Successful School Year

By NAOMI PEMBERTON

As the new school year begins, parents and caregivers seek ways to nourish kids’ bodies. Healthy snacks and meals are a must for the health, comfort, energy levels, and brain development of growing kids.

Back-to-School Giveaways a Welcome Gift for Parents

By MIRIAM QUIÑONES

With the cost of school supplies not getting any cheaper, various back-to-school giveaways held before the start of the school year served as a welcome gift to many struggling parents.

Morris Heights: NYPD Appeal to Public for Help Locating 19-Year-Old Reported Missing

By SÍLE MOLONEY

The NYPD is seeking the public’s help locating a 19-year-old young man from Morris Heights who they say is reported missing.

Driver Sought in Chain Reaction Crash

By DAVID GREENE

Police are looking for a hit-and-run driver who veered out of his lane and collided with a truck in Bedford Park. A second vehicle then plowed into the back of the truck.

Local Students Enjoy Trip to Bronx Zoo

By Dr. Joyce Bloom

Under the leadership of Principal Serge Marshall Davis, members of the Animals and Exercise Club at P.S. / M.S. 95 Sheila Mencher School enjoy special opportunities, and recently that included a trip to the Wildlife Conservation Society at the Bronx Zoo.

Inquiring Photographer: Thoughts on Arrest of DL Leader and BOE Employee Nicole Torres

By DAVID GREENE

After federal prosecutors recently announced that Nicole Torres, an NYC Board of Elections employee and a Bronx district leader in Assembly District 81, which broadly covers the northwest Bronx, was arrested for allegedly illegally demanding payments from Bronx residents to herself and to a local Bronx organization in exchange for selecting those individuals as poll workers, and for allegedly falsifying documents to fraudulently obtain poll worker paychecks, this week, we asked readers if they still had faith in the NYC Board of Elections ahead of November’s presidential and other general elections.

Neighborhood Notes: Road Saftey Improvements, Drug Policy Forum, POTS Annual Benefit & More!

By SÍLE MOLONEY & ARIEL PACHECO

Neighborhood Notes: Road Saftey Improvements, Drug Policy Forum, POTS Annual Benefit & More!

Norwood: Tenants at 3322 Decatur Avenue Launch Tenants Association

By SÍLE MOLONEY & ARIEL PACHECO

Tenants at 3322 Decatur Avenue in Norwood gathered in the first-floor reception area of their building on June 19 to discuss forming a tenants’ association and possible avenues to tackle what they said were “poor conditions” in the 122-unit building.