Neighbors stunned by the closure of a local newspaper in The Bronx are rallying behind an effort to relaunch the community mainstay, with or without help from its former owner — the borough’s largest employer.
In August, the owners of the Norwood News — Mosholu Preservation Corp., an umbrella organization of Montefiore Einstein Medical Center — announced the paper was going on an “indefinite hiatus,” citing costs.
In the paper’s final issue, Daniela Beasley, who heads the corporation, wrote that “after years of working to sustain the publication, we have reached a point where an indefinite hiatus is necessary.”…