Mets and Yankees scorer hails from Riverdale

Today is finally opening day! It's raining — but it's still opening day! Aside from the exhaustive 32-page baseball preview on the Mets and Yankees, today's Daily News has a feature on Riverdale resident Howie Karpin, an official scorer for both New York teams. Mr. Karpin has been the official scorer for both teams for 13 years. In 2006, he said he was approached by Derek Jeter after giving him an error on a play when the Yankee shortstop collided with A-Rod and the ball dropped to the ground.

Agents search for body in Riverdale Park

Check out the story on our site.

Kingsbridge Heights teen missing

Police are searching for a 16-year-old Kingsbridge Heights girl who disappeared on Tuesday around 7:15 a.m., according to the Village Voice.

Ketha McCloud went missing after leaving her 2704 Heath Ave. home. According to the Voice she was wearing a black wool coat, blue sweatpants and black boots.

Anyone with information related to Ms. McCloud’s disappearance should call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477), submit tips at nypdcrimestoppers.com or text info to 274637 (CRIMES), subject line “TIP577.”

Education meeting tonight

There will an education forum tonight in Washington Heights at which panel members will discuss mayoral control of schools, teacher layoffs, funding and other topics.

United Federations of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew, Chancellor Merryl Tisch, Deputy Chancellor Santiago Tavares and Clara Hemphill of InsideSchools.org will speak at 7 p.m. in the Fort Washington Collegiate Church, 729 W. 181st St.

The evening is sponsored by state Sen. Adriano Espaillat.

'The Press' in 'The News'

Bob Kapstatter gives The Press credit for getting to the bottom of those bells last week, and mentions us again in an item about the Riverdale Review boycott.

We don't really know what he's saying in the second item, but we're pretty sure we disagree. We had nothing to do with the boycott.

Riverdale in 'The News'

State Sen. Jeff Klein's "Be Our Guest" piece for the Daily News outlines ways of improving the Medicaid Long-Term Care system.

Genealogist Karen Franklin was at the Derfner Judaica Museum at the Hebrew Home at Riverdale yesterday, giving a lecture about hunting down and returning art stolen by the Nazis in WWII. Read the Daily News article in today's Bronx News section here.

Mount Saint Vincent's ties to a Bronx elementary school

About a quarter of the staff at PS 205, an elementary school located near the Bronx Zoo, graduated from the College of Mount Saint Vincent, according to the New York Daily News.

Many of the elementary school’s full timers once worked as student teachers through the Mount’s teacher education program. Several completed the college’s “unique master's program in urban and multicultural education,” according to the News.

To find out how the relationship between these two schools started, click here.

Riverdale Press has stories, stories, stories.

Check out our website for new stories, including those included in this week's issue of The Riverdale Press, as well as a story about yesterday's building workers rally in Riverdale, an article about Tuesday's PEP vote to replace John F. Kennedy High School with two charter schools and a story about the fire that ripped through Sleepy's in Marble Hill on Wednesday.

Del Pozo featured in Harvard magazine

Deputy Inspector Brandon del Pozo was featured in the winter issue of the Harvard Kennedy School Magazine.

The Harvard publication wrote about NYPD cops who attended the John F. Kennedy School of Government, including Deputy Inspector del Pozo and Commissioner Raymond Kelly.

Deputy Inspector del Pozo attended the school in 2004 and obtained his mid-career master's in public administration. The story says his education at Harvad’s Kennedy School led him to become the NYPD intelligence liaison to the Arab Middle East in Amman.

“I think what the Kennedy School encourages is to take a very long, sophisticated view toward politics at every level,” Deputy Inspector del Pozo said in the story.

Mystery solved

Check out the conclusion to our mystery bells thread here.