Several weeks have passed since the 33 Chilean miners were rescued from the underground mine where they were trapped in for 69 days in the Atacama Desert. The world watched for two days in October as they emerged one by one in steel cages from the bowels of the earth to a cheering crowd. Chile […]
Archive | November, 2010
Chileans Ponder the Miner Story from Abroad
Posted on 11 November 2010.
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Honduran king of Italian ices
Posted on 11 November 2010.
Delicioso Coco Helado owner Alfredo Thiebaud has run his Bronx-based Italian ice company for 32 years.
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Front of the food line
Posted on 11 November 2010.
Morrisania’s Word of Life Food Pantry serves hundreds of hungry people every week.
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Drug bust targets Satan’s Bloods gang
Posted on 11 November 2010.
Some thirty members of a Hunts Point drug gang called Satan’s Bloods were arrested in recent raids, to the relief of area residents. (NY Daily News)
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Former drug addict convicted for murder
Posted on 10 November 2010.
A onetime cocaine addict was convicted today for the murder of a Greek Bronx pizza-maker in 1992. (New York Post)
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Archdiocese to close 32 NYC schools, several in Bronx
Posted on 10 November 2010.
Among the six “at risk,” predominately minority Catholic schools set to close is St. Pius V Girls High School—the only high school on the list. (New York Times)
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For Bronx women, some help on a tough road to college
Posted on 10 November 2010.
A college prep program in Mott Haven is showing Bronx women a path to college.
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Seventy-year-old courthouse mural damaged
Posted on 09 November 2010.
A precious, one-of-a-kind mural was damaged during construction at the Bronx County courthouse. (NY Daily News)
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