Recycle them! On Saturday, Sept. 25 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., the Allegheny County Health Department and the Pennsylvania Resources Council will collect hard-to-recycle items at City of Pittsburgh Environmental Services, 3001 Railroad St. in the Strip District. They will accept these items for small f...

The Northside Chronicle will have a table at tomorrow's Old Allegheny Soccer games at the Brighton Heights fields.  We'll be raffling off a $25 giftcard to Bistro-to-Go on East Ohio Street.  Come out and watch the first soccer games of the year, and enter to win the giftcard.  Entry is free, and we'...

The new blue and yellow, regulation size hockey rink replaces a smaller, non-regulation size rink.  Despite still recovering from surgery, Council President Darlene Harris, who contributed funding to the project, made an appearance at a ceremony Sept. 3 in honor of the new rink.  All Photos courtesy...

RADical Days 2010 features free admission to a few Northside museums as well as several free events.  RADical Days is annual event hosted by the Allegheny County Regional Asset District fund.  For information on RAD and RADical Days, plus locations and organization websites, check out the website he...

Starting Sunday, Sept. 5, 5 Northside bus routes will change numbers and service routes, and 3 will be eliminated.  Links lead to .pdf schedules.  Monday, Sept. 6 is Labor Day so all bus routes will operate on a holiday schedule.  These were planned route changes, and are not part of the Port Author...

Since May, the Carnegie Library has been holding community workshops to engage those it serves on how best to preserve and sustain its future success.  The third part of this three-part process happens in September.  You can read summaries of part one here , and part two here . These final workshops...

Photo courtesy Caitlin Lenahan and the Friends of the Pittsburgh Urban Forest Did you know that young trees need 40 gallons of water per week ? "A lot of people seem to forget that trees need water," said Caitlin Lenahan, the Friends of the Pittsburgh Urban Forest's education and outreach coordinato...

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