By Sean P. Ray | Managing Editor The 2025 Pennsylvania Primary Election is taking place this month, on May 20. For Pittsburghers, perhaps the most important race of the season is for the seat of Mayor of Pittsburgh. Democratic candidate Ed Gainey is seeking to retain his position, having become the ...

By Sean P. Ray | Managing Editor OBSERVATORY HILL — As part of ongoing efforts to reduce the deer population in Pittsburgh’s parks, a targeted harvesting program was piloted in Riverview and Frick parks to further bring down the herd numbers of the animals. The targeted harvest was performed in Marc...

By Carson Folio | Staff Writer Following the installation of new outfield fences in 2024, the Northside Baseball and Softball Association (NBSA) will add new padding and baseball flair on the fences at Jack Stack Field for the upcoming season. The quality-of-life upgrades will be revealed at an open...

NorthSideWorks! holding jobs fair on May 14 NorthSideWorks!, a workforce development program that’s part of the Northside North Shore Chamber of Commerce, will hold its second annual jobs fair at Sage AE on May 14. The fair last year, which was held at Acrisure Stadium, drew a crowd of 275 attendees...

By Sean P. Ray | Managing Editor MANCHESTER — Manchester Academic Charter School (MACS) is sending four of its students to the Academic Games National Tournament, a competition held in Washington, D.C., in which students compete in a variety of educational games in pursuit of a coveted “Thinker Trop...

By Sean P. Ray | Managing Editor We have a tie! In a first for The Northside Chronicle’s photo contests, two entries have received an equal amount of votes. We’ve had a few near-misses in the past, and once almost had a three-way tie until a single vote under half an hour before the deadline broke t...

By Sean P. Ray | Managing Editor The Northside Chronicle has been named a finalist in the 2025 Press Club of Western Pennsylvania Golden Quill Award. The Chronicle's article "Catching up with Tom Friday's new owners," published in the February 2024 issue and written by Managing Editor Sean P. Ray, w...

By Sean P. Ray | Managing Editor DEUTSCHTOWN — A hallmark of the Allegheny Elks’ annual Mardi Gras party is the crowning of a Mardi Gras King or Queen. This year took a different turn as the crowned royalty was not human, but a pierogi. Jalapeno Hanñah, one of the contestants at the Great Pierogi Ra...

By Anna Yoder | Columnist We have experienced a winter this year that has been a bit colder than the last few. And on one of the coldest nights in January, my husband and I decided to visit an exciting pop-up restaurant on East Ohio Street called tacOcat. We did not know what to expect, yet realized...

By Sean P. Ray | Managing Editor MANCHESTER — Manchester Academic Charter School (MACS) is sending four of its students to the Academic Games National Tournament, a competition held in Washington, D.C., in which students compete in a variety of educational games in pursuit of a coveted “Thinker Trop...