Bronx News Network

Bronx News Roundup, Feb. 15

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We’ll get to a few news links in a minute, but first I wanted to take this opportunity to talk about why you should click on this link right here and pledge your support to the nonprofit Bronx News Network today. You may have noticed we didn’t post a roundup yesterday. It broke my heart, but it had to be done and it was not just because I spent a large chunk of my day out on the streets delivering the Norwood News, a BxNN affiliate, in my car.We’re taking this last week of our annual fund-raising appeal to remind you why we’re here and to ask for your support in keeping this valuable Bronx resource going and growing. Just like how NPR puts on an annual pledge drive to ask people to financially back “listener-supported” radio, we’re doing our pledge drive to enlist your help in backing reader-supported news!Without your support, we won’t be able to continue to sift through, gather, read and put all the Bronx news into an easily digestible roundup every day. Let alone produce the original reporting that tells you not just that some old Bronx lady died in a fire last week, but that the woman who died was Mary Mullen, a former teacher at PS 5 in Port Morris who lived near Poe Park for the past 30 years, ate at Louie’s Dale Diner on 231st Street, worshiped at St.

Bronx News Network

Show Your Support For the Blog (and Non-Profit Organization) You Love

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We hope everyone had a great Valentine’s Day yesterday and that you spent the day with someone special. Now how about showing some love to your favorite Bronx blog? Our campaign ends this Friday, and we’re reaching out to you, our dedicated readers, who visit the BxNN blog every day. We know our goal to raise $10,000 is ambitious, but we also know how much it will help our programs in 2011. Some of you may read the blog as part of your job, and some of you read us because you love living and working in the Bronx, and you like having a place to visit on the web that gathers great information and high-quality news about the Bronx.You may have noticed by now, there is no other organization that does what we do.