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• Rep. Ritchie Torres introduces ambitious food rescue bill aimed at solving U.S. hunger

  16-01-2026 23:06 via bxtimes.com
  
  Today, Rep. Ritchie Torres is introducing a “bold” plan to nationalize a food rescue system, which would redistribute excess food to hungry communities rather than to landfills. Torres’ “Food Rescue Act,” an amendment to the Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983, aims to establish a national rescue system through partnerships with organizations already doing the work, such as Sharing Excess, which operates nationwide and has a facility within the Hunts Point Pr
  
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• After years of advocacy, City Island launches first-ever 3-K program at P.S. 175

  16-01-2026 22:30 via bxtimes.com
  
  City Island parents with 3-year-olds now have the opportunity to send their young children to school as the neighborhood launched its first 3-k program in the fall of 2025 at P.S. 175.New York City's 3-K program — a free, full day program for 3-year-olds in the city — began in 2017. In the Bronx, enrollment included 5,957 children in non-Family Child Care Network (FCCN) programs and 1,185 children in FCCN programs.Across the borough, 255 schools offered 3-K, along with 490 famil
  
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• Opinion | Bronx Economic Development Corporation joins NYSTEC to support Bronx small businesses

  16-01-2026 21:19 via bxtimes.com
  
  Small businesses are cornerstones of our Bronx community - Bronx Economic Development Corporation is making sure they get the support they deserve.The streets of the Bronx are lined with a diverse array of small businesses. Bodegas provide hundreds of residents with daily convenience. Dry cleaners and tailors work late hours to ensure faithful clients are ready for special events. Print shops help first-time entrepreneurs bring their ideas to life with business cards and storefront signage.Toget
  
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• PM Holness says Jamaicans must develop the island

  16-01-2026 18:13 via caribbeanlife.com
  The initial shock and disappointment over the US pausing approvals for immigrant and permanent visas this week appear to have subsided. Now, Caribbean community governments are responding to this development in a measured manner.Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness, for example, says Jamaicans must accept that the world is changing rapidly and that anti-immigration sentiment is rising in developed countries. Therefore, Jamaicans should focus on collectively developing their nearly three-millio
  
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• Once a circus performer, now a Bronx playwright, Victor Vauban Jr. finds a new stage

  16-01-2026 18:06 via bxtimes.com
  
  Many people dream of the idea of joining the circus, seduced by the larger than life excitement and magic. Victor Vauban Junior, a longtime Bronx resident, did more than just dream, he made it happen.After joining a circus in his teens, and living the reality of that dream, traveling and performing in tents with long hours and long weeks, Vauban is now living his second dream, as a playwright in New York.“It wasn’t an easy life,” Vauban said of his days as a trapeze artist in a
  
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• Bronx Senator Luis Sepúlveda appointed chair of State Senate Judiciary Committee

  16-01-2026 16:12 via bxtimes.com
  
  New York State Senator Luis R. Sepúlveda, who represents parts of the Bronx in New York's 32nd Senate District, has been appointed Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee.Sepúlveda, who was appointed by Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, is the first Latino to hold this position. Stewart-Cousins herself was the first woman and African American to be the Majority Leader of the New York State Senate.“I am immensely proud to be the first Latino appointed to chair thi
  
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