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Representatives from the Mayor's Office, City Public Works, Animal Control and the South Side Local Development Company were on hand to explain the myriad of cleanup activities taking place locally during the most recent South Side Community Council...

Mayor Luke Ravenstahl paid a visit to Allentown to address the attendees at the monthly Zone 3 Public Safety meeting at the St. John Vianney Church Center. With less than a month to go before the new Zone 3 station opens in Allentown at the corner...

Arlington has a new tenant in its small business district and local residents of the neighborhood appear to have mixed feelings about it. The members of the Arlington Civic Council are relieved that after several years, the one-story brick structure...

The coverage area for the Zone 3 police station was significantly reduced on Jan. 1 when the large neighborhoods of Banksville, Brookline and Beechview were taken over by Zone 6 which patrols the city's western neighborhoods. However, this does not...

There is an old saying that Pittsburgh residents do not like to cross bridges. That is apparently the case regarding the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's announcement to close its South Side Hospital location as a full-service medical...

Renovation work, which is expected to cost at least $1.5 million, begins on the new police station in Allentown the first week of February, according to City Police Bureau Manager John Warren, executive assistant to Chief Nate Harper. Giving a...

Safety and practicality will be mixed with aesthetics when the Zone 3 Police Station is moved from the South Side Flats to the corner of Arlington and Warrington avenues in Allentown in April. This was one of the topics discussed at the December...

For the first time in recent years, the monthly Zone 3 Public Safety meeting was held in the South Side Flats, just a few blocks from the zone's police station that is moving its headquarters to the hilltop in Allentown in April. While there were...

District 3 councilman Bruce Kraus said the recently passed hand-gun ordinance should help get countless illegal firearms off city streets. Mr. Kraus spoke to a group of residents at the 30th Ward/Knoxville Block Watch meeting Dec. 2 at the Trinity...

Long-time Pittsburgh Public School Board director Jean Fink was retained as the Carrick Community Council President during the civic organization's election that took place at the monthly meeting Nov. 12 at the Concord Elementary School auditorium....

Changes have taken place over the past five years-plus regarding the neighborhoods patrolled by the Zone 3 Police Station, based in the South Side. The zone doubled in size in September, 2003 when Zone 4 in the West End was closed for budgetary...

The view of the city from the park on Fort Hill and the adjacent ball field is breathtaking. However, the city-owned facility in the Arlington neighborhood is in need of a facelift, both short-term...

To paraphrase a famous quote by Mark Twain, ‘reports of Carrick's demise have been greatly exaggerated.' There was several pieces of good news at the latest Carrick Community Council meeting September 10 at Concord Elementary School Auditorium,...

A letter-writing campaign and petition have been launched by Carrick residents/bank customers concerned about the expected closing of the Carrick branch of PNC Bank. The bank has announced it will shut its doors at this location on December 5,...

Winners were announced recently for the annual "Carrick Goes Gardening" contest. The announcement came during the September 10 meeting of the Carrick Community Council at Concord School. The top six prize winners received cash awards and...

"Homework. Just Do it." Those were the words proclaimed with enthusiasm by Pittsburgh Public Schools Deputy Superintendent Linda Lane as she addressed the children and their parents at the Greater Beltzhoover Inter-Agency Network meeting Sept. 4 at...

The 311non-emergency telephone response line provided by the city was the main item on the agenda of the Knoxville 30th Ward Block Watch meeting June 30. Wendy Urbanic, director of the 311 operations center, explained to the residents at the meeting...

Councilman Bruce Kraus held a "town hall" meeting with his constituents over a quality of life issue for the second time in two weeks at the South Side Market House on June 16. The previous matter was about unleashed dogs on 12th Street. Last week's...

There was a "hot-button" controversy raging at a South Side meeting June 5 at the Market House that had nothing to do with the usual complaints in the neighborhood about graffiti or the bad behavior from the crowded bar scene. City Councilman Bruce...

The American Eagle Outfitters Tour of Pennsylvania presented by Highmark Healthy High Five is a 450-mile, six-day bicycle race that begins in Philadelphia and ends at Point State Park. The South Side will be the site for the finish line of the fifth...

The city's most renowned "Trash Guru", retiree Boris Weinstein, visited Arlington with tips on how to keep the streets of their neighborhood from being overrun by litter. "I had a choice to make when I retired, play golf or pick up litter? ," said...

Sharon Ward, president of the 30th Ward Knoxville Block Watch, was ecstatic, that every invited guest speaker showed up to the organization's first official meeting of the year on April 28 at the Trinity Lutheran Church, at the corner of Brownsville...

Mayor Luke Ravenstahl paid a short visit to the south hilltop area on April 17 when he addressed a good turnout at the Greater Beltzhoover Inter-Agency Network meeting held at the McKinley Park Recreation Center on Delmont Street. The young mayor...

The South Hilltop neighborhoods are next on the list for the city's plan to demolish hundreds of condemned, dilapidated and abandoned houses, according to Michael Huss, the city's public safety director who spoke to an audience at the Arlington...

Attend a Greater Beltzhoover Inter-Agency Network meeting and it is hard not to notice the teenage boys who are there to politely assist the guests. These young men are part of the One Small Step mentoring program run by Jon Hairston, one of the...