(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...

The collective mood was so triumphant at the Northside Leadership Conference’s 26th annual awards dinner that attendees could be forgiven for forgetting that the rest of the world is in the midst of a recession. Inside the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church on North Avenue, the community appeared in...

(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...

Last Friday the Mattress Factory celebrated another year of cutting edge culture with its 2009 annual Urban Garden Party. The behind the stage rock concert theme combined catered food, dancing and entertainment with a strong feeling that some of the guests would be leaving to follow the tour bus the...

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...

Question: I hear an awful lot about this FICO score today and I am not sure I understand just what it is and how I can affect it?  What is considered a good score and can I do anything to improve it? Answer: In today’s world just about everywhere you turn you are hearing about credit scores, good cr...

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...

Here’s your garden chemistry lesson for the month: There are many Black Walnut trees (Juglans nigra) growing throughout our Northside neighborhoods. The Urban Gardener had one growing on the hillside, right over our office shed, which produced a tympanic symphony when the large, hard-hulled, hand-st...

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...