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16th Ward Huntington National Bank to Julio Grullon at 727 Pliney Way for $5,000. 17th Ward Waverley Rohe Caton to 1831 Arlington Green LLC at 1841 Arlington Ave. for $43,750. Jamie Bishop to Christopher and Jonathan Clark at 1817 Jane St. for...

UPMC has announced plans to close UPMC South Side over the next three to five years and move most of the health care services it provides to UPMC Mercy in the Uptown section of Pittsburgh. In an email to staff of the two hospitals on June 12, Elizabe...

Residents of Stamm Ave., Locust St., Sherman St., and Moye Place will have their roads repaved this year as Mount Oliver Council awarded a contract for the work at its June 16 meeting. The contract...

South Side is preparing for the thousands of spectators expected for the fifth stage of the American Eagle Outfitters Tour of Pennsylvania presented by Highmark Healthy High 5, a 420 mile bicycle stage race across Pennsylvania. The fifth stage will e...

On Thursday, June 26, in District Magisterial Judge Charles McLaughlin's office, the following Housing Court cases will be heard at 1 p.m.: Edward and Alicia Hawks, 2314 Starkamp, 19th Ward, Codes 110.1, 105.1, 922.02 Charles P. Hoebler, 2020...

While much has been written and said recently about the way Pennsylvania's legislative districts are drawn, a major concern has been absent from most of the discussion: the possible impact that proposed changes could have on minority representation...

With environmental leaders in tow, Mayor Luke Ravenstahl last week expanded the city's green efforts with a $100,000 dollar check for a new trust fund that will further Pittsburgh's position as one of the nation's “top green cities.” Though we've...

Citiparks' Roving Art Cart will be visiting South Pittsburgh this summer, giving local children an opportunity to paint, sculpt, or create objects with paper and more on the following dates from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.: June 26 – Moore Park, Brookline...

An opening reception for 250 Years of Plants: Photographs by Regional Photographers will be Thursday, June 26 from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at Silver Eye Center for Photography, 1015 East Carson Street, South Side. The reception is free for members and...

The South Side Summer Poetry Reading will be Wednesday, July 9, 7 p.m. at Joseph-Beth Booksellers, 2705 East Carson Street. Reading their own poems will be Ann Curran, Judith Robinson and James Deahl. Admission is free. This is an annual even of the...

The next Bailey, Bigbee, Kambach Block Watch meeting will be Wednesday, July 2 at 6 p.m. in Grandview Park. Officer Christine Luffey is the guest speaker and Councilman Bruce A. Kraus has been invited to attend. The community is w...

Saint Vladimir's Ukrainian Food Festival will be Sunday, June 29 from 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the church hall at 73 S. 18th Street. Featured foods include stuffed cabbage, pyrohy, kobasa and kraut, halushsky and baked goods....

My Brothers Keeper is hosting a “stop the violence” unity celebration, “2008 Stop The Hate” on Saturday, June 28 in lower McKinley Park from noon to 7 p.m. Activites include: special guest speakers, a Memorial Basketball Game, a spirit...

Grace Episcopal Church on Mount Washington will hold an ice cream social on the lawn at from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. on Friday, July 4. Everyone is welcome to come for free ice cream (as long as it lasts) before viewing the fireworks show from Grandview...

Bishop David Zubik ordained three men to the priesthood on Saturday, June 21, at Saint Paul Cathedral in Oakland. The men who were ordained are Deacons Nicholas Argentieri, Joseph Freedy and Michael...

Mark Bibro has been named executive director of the Birmingham Foundation. He replaces the foundation's first executive director, Mary Phan-Gruber, who left after 10 years of service in 2007 to join Dewey & Kaye as a Senior Nonprofit Consultant....

Pittsburgh's Zoning Board of Adjustment has scheduled two public hearings of interest to South Pittsburgh residents for Thursday, July 10 in the first floor hearing room of the John P. Robin Civic Building, 200 Ross Street, Downtown. Zone case...

Pittsburgh City Council in Our Neighborhoods, the traveling meetings of Pittsburgh City Council, will make several stops involving South Pittsburgh Council Districts in the next several weeks. This week, the District 3 meeting will take place at the...

First time buyers, homeowners and those refinancing their homes for improvements can all benefit from learning more about anti-predatory lending at a workshop hosted by the Allentown Community Development Corp. (A-CDC) and the Pittsburgh Community...

Sixty new trees are coming to Carrick through the mayor's Neighborhood Business District Improvement Initiative. Carrick will also host a Tree Tenders Course where for a donation of $40 (multiple members from one household will have a discount) a...

Pittsburgh City Council recently strengthened the Domestic Partner Registry it has had on the books since 1999. District 3 Councilman Bruce A. Kraus, along with Council President Doug Shields, presented the legislation that strengthens and adds...

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...

Mount Washington Community Development Corporation members plan to make an official request of the city for more police officers to be assigned to walk the streets of their neighborhood. Attendees at a June 19 community forum meeting voted to adopt...

A presentation on gang awareness highlighted the June 18 meeting of the Upper Knoxville Block Watch which drew 51 attendees. The guest speaker was city police Detective Ashley Thompson of the Criminal Intelligence Unit. District 3 Councilman Bruce...