Over a decade has passed since the Comfort Inn & Suites project in Pittsburgh’s Northside was first imagined. Now it’s open for business, and developers believe it will be a ‘lynchpin’ for more expansion in the area. Story and photos by Ashlee Green A front view of the new Comfort Inn & Suites on Ea...

The latest issue of The Northside Chronicle: December 2020. Volume 36, Issue 12, is now available in our archive. You can read it below, pick up your own copy at one of our newspaper box locations in the Northside, or subscribe today.

Stay up-to-date on what’s coming, going, and changing in the Northside business community with our monthly Northside Business Briefs. By Ashlee Green Photo: Emily Leone for The Northside Chronicle The Park House After 17 years in the Northside, The Park House will be closing its doors permanently at...

Dedicated subs can earn $120-150 per day. By Ashlee Green Photo: Max Fischer via Pexels The Pittsburgh Public School (PPS) District has further extended its plans to return most students to in-person classes from Monday, Nov. 9, 2020 to Monday, Jan. 4, 2021*, and they are in need of dedicated substi...

Northsiders can still celebrate the season with The Pittsburgh Project’s ‘Trunk or Treat’ event, Pittsburgh’s Monster Pumpkins Pop-Up on the North Shore, a Community Trick-or-Treat station in Historic Deutschtown, and socially distanced trick-or-treating. By Ashlee Green Photo: Daisy Anderson via Pe...

2020 Census expected to end Thursday, Oct. 15 at 11:59 p.m. Hawaiian time. Story by Lauren Stauffer Photo courtesy of U.S. Census Bureau Northside residents who have not yet self-responded to the 2020 Census will have until 5:59 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 16 to do so online at 2020census.gov or by calling...

On Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2020 a lower court order to continue counting U.S. residents was upheld by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Story by Lauren Stauffer The City of Pittsburgh and the Allegheny County Census Team alerted community partners on Monday, Oct. 12 that the original Oct. 31 census dea...

Register for the next discussion with Josh Bell by Friday, October 16. The featured book is Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates. By Frederick A. Hasney IV Photo: Interior of the Woods Run branch of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, courtesy of The Northside Chronicle Archives Carnegie Lib...

The Semicir Street wall and soil stabilization project has begun. By Ashlee Green Photo: Semicir Street residents Mitch Hall and Jaime Filipek stand in front of what they now refer to as the "valley": the active landslide area in the middle of the street, where their former neighbor's home collapsed...

Originally, in-person classes were set to start on October 5, 2020. By Ashlee Green Photo: August de Richelieu via Pexels The Pittsburgh Public Schools (PPS) school year got off to a shaky start, but now, most technological snafus have been worked out. On the district’s first school day, Tuesday, Se...