NYC Sentinel

Beekeepers and non-profit push to legalize beehives

By Wadzanai Mhute Since December 2008, the New York City Beekeepers Association, working with Just Food, a non-profit organization that connects local farms to neighborhoods and communities, petitioned City Council for an amendment of the law to exempt bees. So far 3,358 people signed the petition.

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Where the race is over, hugs, cheers and tears begin

After running all 26.2 miles of the New York City Marathon, the athletes met their family and friends on Central Park West. — Artis Henderson and Wadzanai Mhute

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Park(ing) Day

PARK(ing) Day is "an annual, one-day, global event where artists, activists, and citizens independently but simultaneously temporarily transform metered parking spots into 'PARK(ing)' spaces: temporary public parks," according to the Web site parkingday.org. It was started in 2005 in San Francisco. On Broadway, two groups set up their green spots; one near Barnard College and the other outside Columbia University. — Wadzanai Mhute

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Changes in route

Flor Bernal has seen many first days of school. For 23 years, as a public school bus driver, Bernal, 56, has been picking up and dropping off children at Public School 69, a magnet school for the performing arts in Jackson Heights, Queens. Today there are no crying children — only happy ones. Children are [...]

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