Taylor Murtaugh is used to juggling soccer and basketball, just not this way. The Bronx Science senior has been a four-year player at the school in both sports, in the past transitioning from basketball in the winter to soccer in the spring. Comment.

Second beautiful weekend, just before the Autumnal Equinox, had the players of AFC Rapid playing a full schedule of games. The highlights of the matches. Comment.

Iris Bromfield didn’t have high expectations for her John F. Kennedy girls volleyball team entering the preseason. The PSAL city runner-up Knights lost four senior starters, all of them standouts. Comment.

Gina Meltzer was a four-year starter and led the Bronx Science girls volleyball team to three straight PSAL Class A quarterfinal appearances. The 5-foot-9 outside hitter was one of the best players in the league. Comment.

Jaylen Amaker cringes every time anyone associated with the Mount St. Michael football program mentions the team’s inexperience. Comment.

It is said a small leak can sink a great ship, but after appealing an enormous water bill, one local senior was able to keep kept afloat financially. Comment.

A legal defense fund established by merchants and residents of the Westchester Square – Zerega community is taking the city into court to temporarily close homeless shelter that was opened without any community notification. Comment.

Students of Villa Maria Academy are doing their part to spread peace, love and understanding, participating in their own 4th Annual International Day of Peace. Comment.

Senator Jeffrey D. Klein joined Fordham Preparatory president Reverend Kenneth Boller and Fordham Prep students today to urge Governor Patterson to sign a bill that would help Fordham Preparatory School expand its prestigious science program, while continuing to offer financial aid packages. Comment.

In a very unusual move, neighbors have singled out two nearby homes for throwing wild parties during the summer months. Comment.

Bicentennial Veterans Memorial Park was full of cheer and excitement as over 100 players gathered to celebrate the 33rd Annual Closing Day for the Throggs Neck Girls Softball League. Comment.

When someone started to fill in the waterfront end of Lucerne Street in Spencer Estate, June Haymon sniffed. When someone installed a gated fence, Haymon grumbled. Comment.

What better way to spend a fall afternoon or evening than going to a college football game? Comment.

Thanks in part to Senator Jeff Klein, some 20 students will attend Fordham Preparatory School on scholarship. Thanks in part to Klein, those students will twirl test tubes and ignite Bunsen burners in new Fordham Prep science labs. Comment.

A new Pelham Bay deli serving Spanish-American food was victimized three times over three days. The incidents have been classified as bias attacks by the police. Comment.

The Bartow Pell Mansion Museum will hold a Fall Workshop Series: Collecting Basics, in-depth workshops with antiques and fine art appraisers Nora Mazur and Patricia Dillon. The first three workshops focus on what you need to know to start collecting fine art, furniture, and silver. The series culminates with a visit to Doyle New York for a talk and preview of an upcoming auction of furniture and fine art. Admission is $15 each workshop or save $10 on all four for $50; members $10 each or $35 for all four workshops. Reservations required; space limited. Comment.

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11th Council District candidate Tony Perez Cassino, who fell to incumbent Oliver Koppell on Primary Day, blamed poor voter turnout and promised to remain active in Riverdale, Kingsbridge, Woodlawn and Norwood. Comment.

12th Council District incumbent Larry Seabrook issued a press release thanking his supporters on Thursday, September 17, two days after the Democratic primary. Seabrook singled out former Mayor David Dinkins, the New York Amsterdam News and a bloc of labor unions, including DC37 and the United Federation of Teachers. Comment.

12th Council District candidates Andy King and Sebastian Ulanga smell something fishy in Co-op City. King and Ulanga believe 12th Council District incumbent Larry Seabrook may have rigged the Democratic primary. Comment.

David Moran has been playing scratch-off games in the New York State Lottery for the past five years, and had been content to walk away with winning around $1,000 – until he hit the mother load. Comments (1).

On Saturday, September 5, Wakefield lost a dutiful son, an upright father and an esteemed handyman. Martin Anthony Lewis, 33, was gunned down on E. 229th Street. Although Lewis was not in a gang, family members think a gangster pulled the trigger. Comment.

Newly installed Archbishop Timothy Dolan paid a visit to the Little Angels Head Start program to meet with the children and staff, and discuss the successes of the program. Comment.

The Related Companies’ Stephen Ross was in the Bronx on Thursday, September 17 to open the Gateway Center, a $500 million shopping mall on River Avenue. Comment.

The Department of Education opened 18 new schools in the Bronx on Wednesday, September 9, to restrained applause. Comment.

The Bronx Culture Trolley rolls again on Wednesday, October 7, along the South Bronx Cultural Corridor with an evening full of family activities. The evening features six art exhibitions at: Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx Blue bedroom Project, LDR Studio Gallery, and Bruckner Gallery at the Bruckner Bar & Grill. The evening will also include percussion sounds of the Quijombo Festival, the outdoor Tree Museum, and a karaoke after-party at the Bruckner Bar & Grill. Comment.

The Lehman Chamber Players will begin their musical season at Lehman College on Sun., Oct. 4, at 2 pm with a performance of piano trios by Beethoven, Arensky, and Shostakovitch. The public is invited to attend the free concert, which will be held in the Music Building’s Recital Hall, located on the third floor. Seating is limited. Comment.

Flames destroyed a notable Bronx mosque on Thursday, September 17. Between 11 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. a fire erupted at the Islamic Cultural Center on E. 166th Street, the same Islamic Cultural Center where thousands of West Africans mourned in 2007. Comment.

On Thursday, September 17, designer suits flooded the south Bronx. Comment.

On Thursday, September 17, City Comptroller Bill Thompson warned snack-food firm Lance, Inc. not to shift production of Stella D’oro snacks from the Bronx to Ohio. Comment.

Through something as simple as walking you can help make a difference in the lives of the many Bronxites suffering from breast cancer and help change history. Comment.

In June, friends and patrons of Center Stage Community Playhouse in Westchester Square raised $8,150 to rescue the penurious theater. Center Stage will perform again. On Monday, September 14, the theater released plans for its 41st season. Comment.

The Bronx Merchants Coalition met with a Small Business Services assistant commissioner to discuss making small business thrive in the borough. Comment.

The community board has voted to stand behind the City Island community against the proposed cell tower that threatens its historic atmosphere. Comment.

The process has begun to rename a Bronx traffic triangle to formally honor a local hero who bravely gave his life to help those in need on September 11, 2001. Comment.

The Bronx County Democratic Party endorsed Queens Councilman John Liu for City Comptroller on Friday, September 18. Comment.

A S.U.N.Y. Maritime student who jacked up his car to do an oil change was killed in a tragic accident when the lift gave way and his car crushed him. Comment.

The Parks Department has closed a concession stand near the Westchester Square train station after the operator began preparing food at the location without a proper license. Comment.

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The union workers at Stella D’oro went on strike. They marched. They sang. They appealed to teachers and nurses, congressmen and borough presidents. They won a National Labor Relations Board case. Comment.

243 residents, merchants, and elected officials came to the Westchester Square Public Library on Saturday, September 12 for an “organizational meeting” to fight a new homeless shelter at 1564 St. Peter’s Avenue. Residents said it opened at night without conducting saturation analysis hearings or community board notification because of a Department of Homeless Services self-proclaimed “state of emergency.” Comment.

The state Department of Health has granted Westchester Square Medical Center an extended operating certificate, allowing the hospital to remain open through December 31, 2010, and a ray of hope for its longtime continuance. Comment.

A City Island man is accused of threatening a neighbor, and then firing a shotgun into a wall in his own home, causing a hole the size of a baseball, police said. Comment.

Opposition continues to grow against the Morris Park nightspot, now advertised as Insomnia Lounge,. Comment.

Three native Bronxites are bringing their own flavor back to the Bronx, igniting peoples’ taste buds with the old school flavor of fountain soda. Comment.

Residents of Pelham Parkway and Allerton spoke out against the proposed medical facility that they fear will diminish the quality of their neighborhood, in preparation for the upcoming Board of Standards and Appeals hearing. Comment.

The battle for development at the Kingsbridge Armory has taken on biblical proportions. At City Hall, members of the Kingsbridge Armory Redevelopment Alliance and Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. testified. On the corner of Kingsbridge Road and Reservoir Avenue, northwest Bronx pastors, rabbis and imams led a crowd in prayer. Comment.

The 9/11 memorial garden for Bronx victims of the World Trade Center tragedy was abuzz with activity as mourners came to pay tribute to their fallen brethren. Comment.