‘Don’t reverse, don’t make us road kill’ was the sign held by six-year-old Isabella Basile, to demonstrate her feelings during a rally against the potential reversal of Tomlinson Avenue. Comment.

A public hearing has been called for residents demanding to know why the Birchall Avenue Bronx River Parkway entrance remains closed. Comment.

In a special awards ceremony on Thursday, June 18, at St. Theresa School, students in grades 4 through 7 were named to The Principal’s List for achieving highest honors – an average of 95% or above – for the 4th quarter and for the whole 2008-2009 school year. Comment.

Let the summer fun begin! Excitement filled the schoolyard of P.S. 72 during the official kick off for the summer camp program on Monday, July 6. Comment.

P.S. 71’s middle school academy will send a pair of young men to the Bronx High School of Science and a trio of young women to other specialized public high schools in the fall. The academy is only four years old and graduated its first class of eighth graders in 2008; none were accepted to Bronx Science, one of the best high schools in NYC. Comment.

A petition that circulated through the Ferry Point community calling for the creation of a community garden on a city-owned green space garnered some support recently, but there is still a disagreement among neighbors over what is best for the small parcel of land. Comment.

40th PCT. Comment.

On Tuesday, June 16, Community Board 7 honored Brandon Rutishauser and Merlin Valdez, both 16, who spent the 2008-2009 school year as tech consultants to CB7. Rutishauser and Valdez latched onto CB7 via CITI Youth, a Municipal Art Society of New York initiative. Comment.

What do flies, rats and the birthplace of hip-hop have in common? How about 2356 Lorillard Place, a beleaguered apartment building on the edge of Little Italy. Comment.

When Department of City Planning Commissioner Amanda Burden looks at the Lower Concourse, she pictures a Harlem River promenade. She pictures skyscraping condos, corner stores, lofts and a waterfront park. Burden pictures a rusty neighborhood remade for residential and commercial development. Comment.

You’re 16 years old. You enter a tower at the Boston Secor Houses in Baychester. You hit the “UP” elevator button and wait…and wait and wait. You laugh. You play fight. You chat. When the elevator finally comes, so do the police. You’re handed a summons. You loitered. Comment.

Fireworks, drugs, gunshots, bass. Welcome to the warm weather Bronx. Homeowners in Clason Point, Bedford Park and University Heights met recently to demand police action. They’d rather not suffer the noise and crime. They’d rather not endure another summer of homeowner discontent. Comment.

The ball was in their court. Bronx students had a chance to learn tennis from a pro during the experience of a lifetime. Comment.

Mount Hope Community Center at 55 E. 175 Street had a grand opening with the kind of fanfare that comes after a long, sought-after dream is realized. Comment.

The Half-Nelson Playground, the product of years of work by community advocates, opened with a ribbon cutting on Wednesday, June 17. Comment.

Morton Williams Supermarkets employees stomped out of a Community Board 7 land use committee meeting on Tuesday, July 7. Even so, the committee endorsed Related Companies’ plan to build a shopping mall at the Kingsbridge Armory, albeit with a list of neighborhood-minded conditions. Comment.

Congratulations to the graduates of Bronx Green Middle School, M.S. 326, on the Frank Whalen Campus. The grads are. Comment.

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Center Stage Community Playhouse, the oldest neighborhood theater in the Bronx and a Westchester Square institution, is saved. Members, patrons and shopkeepers raised $8,150 in two months to keep Center Stage afloat. The volunteer outfit asked for help in May following a sparsely attended 2008 season. Comment.

Three established Throggs Neck businessmen are joining together in still another venture – a deli that one of the owners said will treat everyone who walks in the door as if they are family. Comment.

No more hanky panky. On the night of Thursday, June 25, the police department padlocked New Skin Spa, a beauty and massage parlor on E. Tremont Avenue near Coddington Avenue. Community Board 10 district manager Ken Kearns thanked the 45th Precinct; on Saturday, June 6, a raid netted a prostitution arrest and an unlicensed massage arrest at New Skin Spa. Comment.

Many food shoppers in Throggs Neck now have a much more enjoyable experience as they shop at Fine Fare at 3680 E. Tremont Avenue. Comment.

In June, the Department of Transportation and the Department of Sanitation introduced alternate side parking on the west side of Emerson Avenue, the north side of Miles Avenue and the south side of Randall Avenue in Throggs Neck. Three weeks later, it was removed, DOT spokesman Monty Dean said. Comment.

The stubborn confectionary workers who formed a picket line in Kingsbridge eleven months ago won a decisive victory on Tuesday, June 30 when a National Labor Relations Board judge ordered the Stella D’oro Biscuit Company to reinstate the workers and surrender back pay. Comment.

A filmmaker from Allerton has achieved his dream of creating a short movie recognized nationally as one of the best student films. Comment.

Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr., announced the appointment of Dr. Dolores Fernandez as the Bronx representative on the newly reconstituted Board of Education, effective following the sunset of mayoral control on July 1. Comment.

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You know all about the green roof – a blanket of vegetation engineered to stay cool in the summer and warm in the winter, to grow fruit and flowers, to capture storm-water run off, to reduce air pollution and to lure animals back to the city. Comment.

Ever play football on asphalt? Ouch. Bryan Edwards has. Football. Baseball. Basketball. The rising eighth grader is a sports fanatic. So Edwards was jazzed when the Trust for Public Land asked students at M.S. 424 to help design a new playground and mini-field in Hunts Point. On Wednesday, June 24, the playground opened and Edwards sprinted to play football on turf. Comment.

Eight eighth-grade students from The Young Scholars Academy in the Bronx ended a mock business acquisition project recently by presenting their recommendations to investors at the private equity firm Castle Harlan. Comment.

Secretary of Treasury Timothy Geitner came to one of the borough’s premier non-profits to announce $90 million in President Obama’s and Congress’ Recovery Act geared toward helping community-based groups. Comment.

Helping to reduce the effects of poor eating habits, the South Bronx Food Cooperative has expanded its facility and will offer new and exciting programs for members. Comment.

Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. and Councilwoman Helen Diane Foster have stepped in to help restore order at 1380 University Avenue in Highbridge, where a maintenance related tenant-landlord dispute has exposed a tangle of questions. Comment.