Linda Dickerson, the CEO of the National Aviary, resigned Tuesday, Jan. 27 citing incompatibility of business practices. Pat Mangus, the chief operating officer for the Aviary, told The Northside Chronicle Monday, Jan. 26 at 5 p.m. that he had no knowledge of Dickerson leaving, and that he only lear...

Walt Green stood at the corner of Sedgwick Street and California Avenue, contemplating the ruins of the Institutional Church of God in Christ, which went up in flames Sunday evening, January 25. With a blue coat and hat, and in 20-degree weather, Green watched reporters from KDKA-TV set up their cam...

As part of an ongoing effort to improve the quality of The Northside Chronicle and to make the newspaper the available to all Northside residents, the Chronicle has placed seven street boxes at key intersections around the Northside. These distinctive red boxes will provide copies of the newspaper t...

It was noisy and crowded in the basement of Bidwell Presbyterian Church. Families straightened signs and checked clothes, organizers prepared microphones and Channel 11 was setting up outside. It was Martin Luther King Jr. Day and residents of the Northside were preparing to honor it by marching fro...

On Saturday, January 10, a husband and wife team threw a charity concert to help the victims of a recent Northside Fire. More than 70 residents from all over the Northside opened their ears and their wallets to the fire relief fund set up by the Allegheny West Civic Council and the Northside Leaders...

By Andy Medici As part of an ongoing effort to aid the victims of the Western Avenue New Years fire, Tom Roberts and Susanna Ortner Roberts will play a benefit concert at the Allegheny Unitarian Universalist Church on North Avenue. The concert will be from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. and will feature the...

By Andy Medici The fire on Western Avenue may have claimed several businesses, but the owners have vowed to continue and rebuild their businesses. While no one was injured in the fire, The Modern Cafe and KS Kennedy Floral were both destroyed and the inside of the buildings almost completed burned o...

By Cheryl Lowitzer - Your Organizing Guru It’s official – January is Get Organized or GOMonth – sponsored by the National Organization of Professional Organizers (NAPO) of which yours truly is a proud, card-carrying member of the Pittsburgh Chapter. In honor of the collective “Yes, We Can” intent to...

By the Northside United MLK Committee The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of civilization, when men ate each other because they had not yet learned to take food from the soil or to consume the abundant ani...

The Northside Leadership Conference has set up a relief fund for victims of the New Years fire that claimed two Northside Businesses and damaged a third. While no one was injured in the fire, The Modern Cafe and KS Kennedy Floral were both destroyed – the inside of the buildings almost completed bur...