Question: I hear an awful lot about this FICO score today and I am not sure I understand just what it is and how I can affect it?  What is considered a good score and can I do anything to improve it? Answer: In today’s world just about everywhere you turn you are hearing about credit scores, good cr...

They had only set the table for one person. The class was upside down because that person wasn’t around to raise it in a toast. A single rose was in the vase, and this table setting in the middle of Legion Park stood as as stark reminder of missing and captured soldiers as part of a Memorial Day com...

Here’s your garden chemistry lesson for the month: There are many Black Walnut trees (Juglans nigra) growing throughout our Northside neighborhoods. The Urban Gardener had one growing on the hillside, right over our office shed, which produced a tympanic symphony when the large, hard-hulled, hand-st...

The floors are currently concrete, and the rooms have yet to be finished, but the sounds of drilling and construction on Federal Street are a constant reminder that the Northside is getting a new library. Although the library won’t be officially open to the general public until the end of August, th...

Local boy scout troop and pack 281 collected food from Manchester residents as part of their 2009 Scouting for Food Campaign. The scouts dropped off more than 450 units of food to the Northside Common Ministries on Brighton Road. Part of the goal for scouts is to learn a sense of community, communic...

The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence has pledged to help the City defend a much scrutinized gun ordinance from an NRA lawsuit that seeks to challenge the City’s right to create this sort of legislation. The Center is taking the case for no charge. The Ordinance was passed in the wake of several ...

Stanley stood high on the rock, looking down at the water below. The day was hot, and the sun was out, but he didn’t want to go into the water. Even when he was forced to go in, he would climb back out. But that’s normal, because Stanley is gaining weight in preparation for molting, and is afraid to...

May 19 was primary day in Allegheny County and the Northside, and the results are in. In the Democratic Primary contest for District 6, which covers areas of Manchester, Allegheny West, the North Shore and pieces of the central Northside, incumbent Tonya Payne lost to Robert Daniel Lavelle. In the M...

    For the past several months, a dedicated group of volunteers on the Troy Hill Design Committee worked on a plan to guide the efforts of the community in regards to promoting efficient planning and design practices, developing fund-raising for neighborhood improvements, and working with business ...

Today Northsiders took a side trip from their daily routine to vote in the local primary contests in the area. At stake were the Mayoral party primaries, as well as judges, magistrates and District 6 on City Council. Several of the candidates, including Mayor Luke Ravenstahl and local magisterial ca...