The Highmark Foundation is now accepting applications for the 2017-2018 Creating a Healthy School Environment Grant and Awards Program, which will make available a total of $425,000 for schools grades K-12 in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. The goal of the program is to create healthier school envir...

The Saturday Light Brigade has released an exclusive Northside Youth playlist  from previously recorded radio shows for The Northside Chronicle's readers. Share this playlist and amplify youth voices to encourage story telling, and idea sharing, by kids and families through local Northside community...

United Way of Southwestern PA, in partnership with the Money in Your Pocket Coalition (MIYPC), is recruiting volunteer tax preparers to support the 2017 Free Tax Preparation Campaign. Northside Common Ministries Financial Opportunity Center , 1601 Brighton Rd., is the Northside location for families...

By Alyse Horn The Allegheny Elks Lodge recently awarded the Yellow Glove Project another $10,000 grant to continue the distribution of cleaning products to those who utilize the Northside Community Food Pantry. Cleaning supplies are not covered by food stamps, so handing out household cleaning items...

Fall is finally here in the City of Pittsburgh, which means it’s time to wear boots, watch football, and sip on hot apple cider! This year, East Allegheny will be hosting its annual Pumpkinfest on October 8th, Brightwood will be hosting its 25th annual Pumpkinfest on October 22nd, and Brighton Heigh...

Photo by Alyse Horn A look inside the old Workingmen’s Beneficiary Union building after the roof was torn out in September. By Alyse Horn The roof on the building of 1958 Varley St. has been ripped out and replaced, and now Spring Hill Brewing is ready to embark on the next steps that will take them...

Photo courtesy of Pittsburgh Public Schools By Stephen Weiss, His Place Community Center Teachers and Principals will tell you: the first month of school matters! Student attendance during the first month of school predicts attendance throughout the whole year. So if you want students to be at schoo...

Photo by Alyse Horn A 2014 Sandwich Week sammitch. By: Neil Strebig Sandwiches, check. Beer garden, check. Ten days of deli meat, carb-loading and condiment chasing madness, check. Tonight's “Sandwich Sampler V: The Pastrami Strikes Back” officially kicks off the fifth annual Northside Sandwich Week...

Courtesy of www.sproutfund.org One Northside, a Buhl Foundation initiative, in partnership with The Sprout Fund, is offering support to those who live or work on the Northside through Neighbor-to-Neighbor Grants and One Northside Grants. Neighbor-to-Neighbor Grants of up to $1,000 can be awarded to ...

Sunday, May 1 marked the first of many block parties that will be popping up around the Northside in conjunction with the One Northside project and The Buhl Foundation. The Block Party was held in Spring Hill at the new Asylgarten Park, which is owned by the Spring Hill Civic League and currently be...