With about $12 million in Recovery Act funds, the Housing Authority will be able to renovate 52 public housing apartment units in the Northview Heights Family Community. They also received about $225,000 to renovate the roof on the Northview Heights Terrace senior home. Chuck Rohrer of the Housing A...

(For the earlier blog posting, click here.) Three hundred thirteen disadvantaged youths have summer employment this year with the application of $1.493 million in stimulus funding to the Pittsburgh Partnership’s Summer Youth Employment Program. Judy Hill Finegan, manager of Pittsburgh Partnership, s...

This is part of a continuing series of blog post on how the Stimulus Package (American Reinvestment and Recovery Act) affect Pittsburgh's Northside. (For the first post on the stimulus blog, click here.) Disadvantaged and dislocated workers in the Pittsburgh area — including the Northside, of course...

After nearly two years of delays and countless hours spent shuttling between contractors, loan officers and building inspectors, Charlene Meyers is breathing a sigh of relief. Her new daycare service, Mom’s Care, held its grand opening on Saturday, June 21. Meyer’s daycare, located in the former Car...

(This new blog, by Kelly Thomas, will track stimulus spending on and around the Northside. The process is complicated, involving dozens of agencies at various levels of government. But The Northside Chronicle will sort through the mess for you. This is the first of many installments.) The federal go...

When:  Thursday, June 11, 2009 10:30 am Where:   Steelers Headquarters 3400 Water St. Pittsburgh, PA 15203 A Delegation of Clergy and Northside residents will visit the Steelers headquarters tomorrow morning to invite the Rooney’s to attend a bus tour of the Northside on Wednesday, June 17 at 10:00 ...

Petland says area residents need to protect pets from summertime dangers ( Pittsburgh , PA , June 10, 2009) – With warm days and summer walks come a number of summertime dangers for our pets, namely fleas, ticks and mosquitoes. “Prevention is the key. Most people don’t know they have fleas and ticks...

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...

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...

Public Urged to Report & Submit Certain Dead Birds for Testing The Allegheny County Health Department is starting its annual surveillance for the West Nile virus and calling on the public to help by reporting and submitting certain dead birds for testing. The reporting and testing of dead birds can ...