Archive | December, 2010

Free fitness shapes South Bronx

A local health enthusiast helps Bronx women shape up.

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Incubating new businesses in Hunts Point

Local entrepreneurs vie for space to expand and prosper.

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Turning up the tech at a Kingsbridge school

Who you gonna call? The MOUSE Squad.

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Syracuse to play in pinstripe bowl at Yankee Stadium

The Syracuse Orangemen are coming to town for the first Bronx bowl game in almost five decades. (NY1)

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Baby aardvark at Bronx Zoo survies and thrives-with help from zookeepers

A baby aardvark born in the Bronx was nearly doomed by a neglectful mother – and saved by determined zookeepers who nursed him around the clock. (NY Daily News)

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Bronx residents outraged over DOT sidewalk demands

Progress is finally coming to a small street in the Riverdale section of the Bronx – if you consider sidewalks progress. The city is demanding that homeowners on a little-used, dead-end street make expensive improvements, CBS 2′s John Slattery reports. (CBS)

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New York archdiocese may close Bronx parochial school St. Augustine School

Parishoners at a Bronx Catholic church could lose their school – and possibly their place of worship. St. Augustine School in Morrisania is one of six Bronx parochial schools facing closure by the New York Archdiocese because of dwindling enrollment and mounting deficits. (NY Daily News)

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Education dept. charges Bronx teacher, ex-sex worker Melissa Petro with conduct “unbecoming”

Sex worker-turned-teacher Melissa Petro was charged Wednesday with conduct “unbecoming a teacher,” a city Education Department spokeswoman said. (NY Daily News)

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