The Northside seems more or less content with Pittsburgh’s new snow removal plan, if low attendance at a late January meeting about the plan is any indicator. City officials, including Public Works Director Rob Kaczorowski, Community Outreach Coordinator Christie Berger of the Mayor’s Office and Aud...

The only sounds heard coming from the crypt at Allegheny Unitarian Universalist Church in the evening hours of Jan. 27 are steady, syncopated breathing and the tick-tock of an old wall clock. Inside, folks of all different ages stretch their arms and hands above their heads and move fluidly and effo...

Each month The Northside Chronicle will feature a profile of a green business. This month: Underwood Solar Future. Left: Underwood Solar Future employees install solar panels on a roof in Williamsport, Pa. (Photo courtesy Underwood Solar Future) Northsider Fred Underwood is helping build Pittsburgh’...

As we close 2010 I wanted to take this opportunity to thank you for the faith that you have placed in me to be your city councilman. It is both an honor and a privilege to serve you in this capacity. I have spent the year learning the innermost workings of city government and how the work is accompl...

The weather in Allegheny City was cold, overcast and rainy on Feb. 14, 1861. Yet on that day 150 years ago thousands of citizens gathered at the Allegheny Station of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad station on Federal Street to welcome President-elect Abraham Lincoln and his family. T...

A 90-day contract extension from the Urban Redevelopment Authority has given Garden Theater Block developer Wayne Zukin more time to court financiers and tenants for the project. Developers Zukin Development and Collaborative Ventures hope to secure the East End Food Co-op as the project’s anchor te...

The Northside Chronicle has partnered with Manchester Academic Charter School to feature articles from students in grades 6-8. The latest installment of stories is a continuation of the Northside Voice's project with Saturday Light Brigade Radio, a series of interviews between MACS students and thei...

Team Laminates, Co. and the Children's Museum are requesting proposals to install public art and a garden in this lot at the corner of Vinial Street and Spring Garden Avenue. (Photo courtesy Children's Museum) The Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh along with Team Laminates is accepting proposals to be...

Tony and Lauren Dungy sign copies of their new children's book "You Can Be a Friend" Jan. 19 at Pittsburgh MLK Elementary School. (Photo/Emily Leone) Tony Dungy put the sports commentating on the bench Wednesday to tell kids that friendship and reading are MVPs in the game of life. The iconic former...

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