Obama protects us Comment.

We look forward to our very young new year 2010 and the many goals still ahead of us. We also reflect on the goals accomplished in 2009 through the loud complaints of all our civic associations, and the response and serious attention from our elected officials and Community Board 10. Comment.

Among the very early residents of Morrisania was the Hall family. Henry Bryan Hall was born in London in 1808 and moved to America in 1850 with his eldest son and the following year he sent for the rest of the family and they settled in Morrisania. He was a well-known engraver and portrait artist who enjoyed painting miniatures on ivory but was best known for his engravings. Among his early works produced in England was his portrait of Napoleon III and in America he became famous for his renderings of George Washington. Comment.

The Throggs Neck Volunteer Ambulance Corps will be teaching a basic CPR class on Saturday, January 30, starting at 10 am. Comment.

The Bronx House has received funding from the NYS Office of Children and Family Services to offer the Advantage After School Program. This After School Program has the following features. Comment.

“I Thought I was Brushing Too Hard…” Comment.

If your teen needs braces, he or she may just have a reason to smile. The newest addition to the Invisalign product family is Invisalign Teen. Like its clinically proven, FDA-approved predecessor for adults, Invisalign Teen is a series of custom-made, clear plastic aligners that provides a teeth-straightening alternative to more traditional metal braces. Comment.

Former Speaker of the House of Representatives Tip O’Neil famously declared that “all politics are local.” In post 9/11 New York, that must include international politics. Unfortunately, the current administration’s defense-related international politics and policies have had a dramatically harmful local effect on the people of NYC. Comment.

Another year, another drop in Bronx crime. But borough leaders won’t celebrate, as gun violence and quality of life issues continue to trouble Bronx neighborhoods. Comment.

Bronx elephants are on the march. Not in the Bronx Zoo but to Pelham Bay. The Bronx County Republican Committee has moved from Williamsbridge Road in Pelham Parkway to the corner of Middletown Road and Hobart Avenue. Comment.

A callous attack in India has inspired Jewish students at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the Einstein campus Chabad to help families in need. Comment.

The United States Postal Service has again slashed its list of branches and stations slated for “consolidation,” but the Van Nest Station is still in trouble. Comment.

Pelham Parkway resounded with chants of “SAVE OUR SCHOOL!” and “COLUMBUS IS NOT FOR SALE!” prior to a public hearing on the proposed phase-outs of Christopher Columbus High School and Global Enterprise Academy, a small school on the Columbus campus, on Thursday, January 7. Nearly 1,000 Columbus students, teachers, parents, alumni and neighbors rallied against the city Department of Education plan. Comment.

Police found a well-liked neighborhood restaurant employee stabbed in his Merry Avenue basement apartment in Waterbury-LaSalle early on Thursday, January 8 and arrested his attacker the next day. Comment.