Sure looks like a chance of rain to me. Photo from Saturday by Scott Matthews.

July 20, 2015 Weather: Partly cloudy with chance of afternoon showers or thunderstorms. High of 92 degrees.

We’re going to try to restart a feature we had for the first couple of years of this website, the morning bulletin. The bulletin is the perfect way to get a sense of what’s up in the neighborhood first thing in the morning, and it allows us to publish news or notices that may not warrant a longer story. We need photos for this feature, so please send shots of the neighborhood to info@westsiderag.com. (For now, the bulletin will run on Mondays, but we may expand again to the entire week.)

Notices:
Check out our calendar for this week. It includes a free concert at Central Park’s Naumberg Bandshell and lots more free and cheap events. Tonight there’s a community meeting about parks.

A successful Kickstarter campaign will pay for art students and local young people to restore a mural on 92nd street.

Here are some hot-weather tips from NYPD for pet owners.

Noble laureate Joseph Stiglitz will be speaking to the Ansonia Independent Democrats on July 29 at 7:30. Sign up to attend here.

Antigona, a flamenco version of Antigone, will play at West-Park Presbyterian starting on Tuesday. “Greek tragedy and flamenco, it turns out, are well matched, both dealing with grief and defiance on an unashamedly grand scale,” says the New Yorker.

There’s a new iPhone app for volunteering in New York. “Basically you can plug in your interests and availability and get served opportunities in your area.” Learn more here.

News:
President Obama took a casual stroll with his daughter — and a phalanx of Secret Service agents — through Central Park on Saturday morning. It’s apparently been a dream of his since he became president: “The thing that you miss most when you’re president — extraordinary privilege, and really nice plane and all kinds of stuff — but suddenly, not only have you lost your anonymity, but your capacity to just wander around and go into a bookstore, or go to a coffee shop or walk through Central Park,” Obama said at a fundraiser in 2012. “I just desperately want to take a walk through Central Park again, and just remember what that feels like.”

New Yorkers aren’t likely to smell the odd maple syrup-like odor from New Jersey anymore. The North Bergen factory that made the fruit odors is closing. “In 2009, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg pegged the Hudson County-based Frutarom as the source of a sweet, maple syrup-like smell that would occasionally waft over to parts of Manhattan. Officials at the time deemed that the odor was from fenugreek seeds, often used in artificial flavorings.”

An officer from the 24th precinct was assaulted while off-duty in the Bronx last week. Police arrested 21-year-old Samuel Thornton for the crime. “The off-duty officer was getting into her car to go to work when police say Thornton snatched a gold chain from her neck. Authorities say she reached into her bag, but he grabbed it and punched her in the face before running off.”

Check out a slide show of Sunday’s triathlon, which wove through the UWS.