The Norwood News staff is hard at work preparing the latest print edition of the paper, which will be out on streets starting Wednesday. In the meantime, here are a few links to local stories to keep you up to date.

The NY Times’ Lens blog has some beautifully intimate photographs of University Heights and its residents by a Dutch woman, Chantal Heijens, who moved to there  in 2008. David Gonzalez tells the story of how she and her husband made their way to such a “rough and tumble” neighborhood. Here’s a quote from Heijens about living in University Heights:

“People are welcoming,” she told the Times. “Maybe that’s because there are a lot of immigrants there. We’re from a different place too, and we’re accepted. There’s no gentrification at all. When I walk in Harlem or Bed-Stuy, where there is gentrification, I feel less welcome than I do in the Bronx. In the Bronx, I never feel looked down upon because I’m white. People are more mellow.”

Here’s two stories — from the Times’ Kate Taylor and Thomas Kaplan and Bob Kappsatter, writing for The Capitol — about the SOMOS conference put on by the New York State Assembly Puerto Rican/Hispanic Task Force, which is usually well-attended by Bronx elected officials.

With all the hoopla surrounding the Penn State football program following the indictment of a former coach on child sexual abuse charges, the NY Post caught up with former John F. Kennedy High football star Stephfon Green, who is now a Penn State running back in his senior year. Green scored twice on Saturday, the first game after longtime Penn State Head Coach Joe Paterno was fired.

And finally, here’s an interview with Sheldon Benardo, the principal of PS 86 in Kingsbridge Heights, which recently sent a group of students to Paris. Both of those stories are on SchoolBook, the new educational reporting project by the Times and WNYC.

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