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The following Housing Court cases are scheduled for Thursday, May 17, at 10:30 a.m. in Magisterial District Judge Richard King's Courtroom: • Della M. and Mark T. Pantelis, 217 Richfield Street, 32th Ward, Continued Codes 307.1, 302.3, 302.4,...

Tara Stenger and Autumn Fox Gallegher work on building birdhouses during Pittsburgh Concord K-5 duing the 100th Anniversary celebration of Bird Day in Carrick. For more information on Bird Day, In...

Share the historic majesty of the stained glass windows of Saint Mary of the Mount Parish for a suggested minimum donation of $12. Each 12 pack of notecards features four cards of three different window images. The three windows represented in this...

Pittsburgh's Zoning Board of Adjustment has scheduled the following public hearings of interest to South Pittsburgh residents in the first floor hearing room of the John P. Robin Civic Building, 200 Ross Street, Downtown. Zone case 94/12 on Thursday,...

The Arlington Senior Center, 2400 Spring Street off Arlington Avenue, will hold its annual Flea Market on Saturday, May 19 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. In addition to the flea market, there will be a bake sale. A hot dog lunch will be available. For more...

Concord's Bird Day Centennial event rekindled a Carrick tradition Friday, May 4 and it couldn't be a better day for bird watching in Carrick. It was a warm sunny day for 75 excited fourth graders at P...

The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Friends of the Carrick Library will hold a week-long book sale at the library, 1811 Brownsville Road, Monday, May 21 thorugh Saturday, May 26. The sale will take place on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday from...

The Carrick American Legion Auxiliary Unit 725 will hold its annual Poppy Drive on Saturday, May 19. The will be distributing poppies at two locations this year between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.: in front of PNC Bank in the Carrick Shopping Center, and in...

16th Ward Alexis Fink to Lilac Investments LLC at 2313 Elsie St. for $7,000. Alexander Urczyk Jr. to John and Dori Capretti at 2418 Sidney St. for $65,000. 17th Ward   Timothy Kashak to Jenna Klingenberg at 1325 Breed St. for $174,900. Adam Marks...

City Environmental Services crews will hold a special spring yard debris collection on Saturday, May 19. Bagged leaves, tree branches and bushes will be picked up and recycled for compost as long as those items are properly packaged. The following it...

The following is the text of the letter District 3 Councilman Bruce Kraus sent to South Side Planning Forum organizations outlining his position on the proposed Neighborhood Improvement District. Dear South Side Planning Forum Member Organizations,...

Community members who missed Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh's recent strategic planning workshop, still have two ways to contribute ideas about the library's future direction. In Part Two of the library's three-part planning process, "The Library &...

Every time it rains sewage flows into our rivers and our streets. This mess is not only unhealthy, it is also illegal. Currently, the Allegheny County Sanitary Authority (ALCOSAN) is working on a plan to fix the problem. However, local groups are...

Carrick does not have an economic development corporation similar to Mount Washington's or Lawrenceville's. So, instead, Carrick and Overbrook, two Pittsburgh neighborhoods, joined Economic Development South (EDS), a neighboring community...

On May 17, Kathy Hamilton-Vargo plans to start a 7-week Adult Study Group on "Dating and Relationships that Work" on Thursday evenings at 7:30 p.m. at the South Side Presbyterian Church. Participants will read and discuss the book, Boundaries in...

Pittsburgh Councilwoman Theresa Kail-Smith sponsored one of her regular Mount Washington constituent meetings on May 7 to air concerns, complaints and grievances.  And this time she got an earful. Among the questions she heard at the session...

While the South Side Planning Forum voted on May 8 to endorse a Neighborhood Improvement District (NID) within the South Side Flats, city Councilman Bruce Kraus announced days later that he will not support it (see his letter to the forum in The Sout...