Some more great stories rising with the heat of summer:

•Balthaser as Bogey? Check out this Nightline clip.

•Eleanor Miller and Christopher Schuetze appeared on Brooklyn Review – via Skype – to talk about the reporting they’re doing in Haiti for the Haitian Times.

•Margaret Teich put together a (nearly) out-of-this-world video for Esquire previewing a daredevil’s free-falling plan.

•Check out Samantha Stark’s video for WNYC about the Stickball Hall of Fame’s president.

•Katie Honan wrote a piece for The Capitol about a planned Queens wind farm.

•Colby Hamilton covered a state attorney general Democratic candidates debate for City Hall.

•Read about Shane Dixon Kavanaugh’s cowboy boots – and what a goat did to them – in this dispatch from The Oregonian.

•Carla Candia’s story for AP about a call for pardons for former Pinochet military personnel made The Washington Post, among other media outlets.

•Erin McCarthy’s story about the Chilean fishing industry found a home on Page A10 of The Wall Street Journal.

•Rochana Rapkins profiled Basil Paterson for the West Side Spirit.

•Juan DeJesus wrote about a refreshing twist on dumpster diving for NBC Local Integrated Media. Maria Eugenia Miranda, meanwhile, chronicled the capture of the alleged “Bouquet Bandit.”

•Sherry Mazzocchi wrote about death and taxes – and George Steinbrenner – for the Daily News. Vishal Persaud reported on the passage of the Yonkers budget. Joe Tacopino wrote about Newt Gingrich’s opposition to the Islamic community center proposed for Lower Manhattan.

•Our Fort Greene Team – Alexander Abad-Santos, Thomas Chan, Liza Eckert and Mitch Trinka – is quite busy. Check out some of the latest stories here.

In our Alumni Corner, Aisha Al-Muslim recently put out her first issue as editor of El Correo, a Queens-based, Spanish-language paper. Aisha introduces herself to readers (in English) here.

•Damiano Beltrami’s video-and-print package about a veteran’s PTSD battle was featured in The Huffington Post.

•Mike Reicher’s story for the Daily Pilot about new hope for a long-stalled theater restoration project got picked up by the Los Angeles Times.