The Northside Chronicle has gone through many changes over the years, but we've always stuck to our mission of delivering you the best in local news, events and photos.  In celebration of our 25th year as your community newspaper, we've put together a special section that takes a look back at where ...

Ironically, the collapse of Pittsburgh’s steel industry can be thanked for the creation of The Northside Chronicle. In 1979, a Northside steel worker named Larry Evans began editing The Mill Hunk Herald, a pro-union publication designed to give former and present steel workers a chance to publish th...

Allegheny Library Although the Oakland branch of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh may be the “main” branch, the Allegheny Library opened five years earlier in its former building in Allegheny Center on Feb. 20, 1890. “In many ways the library is the heart of the community,” said Director Barbara M...

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Normal 0 false false false /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-style-parent:""; font-size:10.0pt;"Times New Roman";} Dan Richey hard at work on The Chronicle in 2006. When I arrived at The Northside Chronicle, barely a month out of college, the entire ope...

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Lateshya Ellis, outside of new coffee shop Friendly Grounds Cafe on California Avenue in Brighton Heights. (Photo/Henry Clay Webster) Many coffee shops will charge you $4 or $5 for a large drink, and then almost $10 for a sandwich. Friendly Grounds, a new coffee shop at 3619 California Ave. in Brigh...

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Sarah Welch, of the Local Government Academy, manned a table with information on the 2010 Census at a recent meeting on the importance of counting each American resident on Feb. 4. (Photo/Kelly Thomas) Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } /* Style Defin...

The New Hazlett Theater, at 6 Allegheny Center. (Photo/Kelly Thomas) Northside community groups will hold a meeting Thursday, Feb. 4 at 6:30 p.m. at the New Hazlett Theater at 6 Allegheny Center to discuss possible ways to reuse the original Carnegie Free Library building. Early ideas from the unoff...