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Late last year, the Fund for the City of New York, along the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, named the first winners in the its new program: the Sloan Awards for Excellence in Teaching Science and Mathematics in New York City Public High Schools.

Homer Panteloglou, a science teacher at the High School of Economics and Finance in Lower Manhattan, was among the educators honored. Panteloglou, his students say, is an inspiration inside and outside of the classroom.

Loretta Gendville didn’t want to become a bag lady.

But a law enacted last year required Gendville, owner of Brooklyn’s Area chain of children’s stores, to put out large containers to collect and recycle plastic bags. So the reluctant bag gatherer recently took a drastic step: she eliminated bags altogether.

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In the mid-1990s, Reggie Miller was the man that New York Knicks fans loved to hate. The fierce rivalry culminated in the 1994-95 NBA playoffs, when Miller’s Indiana Pacers faced off against the Knicks.

Now the story is being told through the eyes of players, coaches and fans – including Spike Lee – in the new documentary film “Winning Time: Reggie Miller v. The New York Knicks.” The movie, by Dan Klores, is part of ESPN’s “30 by 30” documentary series, which chronicles events, athletes and issues that affected sports from 1979 to 2009.

When the world’s most famous boxer chose Joshua Clottey, a New York welterweight, for a championship bout in Texas, Manny Pacquiao wasn’t just plucking a relative unknown out of obscurity — he was elevating a Bronx gym.

Since its founding 30 years ago, John’s Gym, on Westchester Avenue in Melrose, has seen its share of quality boxers — but few have gotten a shot to become world champ.

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