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...

Mayor proposes tax exemption program for longtime residents Mayor Ed Gainey has submitted legislation to Pittsburgh City Council to create a Longtime Owner Occupant Tax Exemption Program (LOOP), with the goal of shielding residents from tax raises from rapidly increasing property values. The mayor a...

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 Sean P. Ray | Managing Editor DOMI details E. Ohio St. improvement plans At an Aug. 8 public meeting at Allegheny Center Alliance Church, Pittsburgh’s Department of Mobility and Infrastructure (DOMI) presented some of the planned possible improvements for East Ohio Street between Chestnut Street ...

Northside pools open for the summer All three of the Northside’s public swimming pools are open for the summer 2024 season. In a press release, the City of Pittsburgh announced that Jack Stack, Riverview Park and the Sue Murray pools were among the 15 CitiParks Pools that are open for the summer. Th...

By Sean P. Ray | Managing Editor OBSERVATORY HILL — Once more Riverview Park was the center of Arbor Day festivities on the Northside, with a celebration full of many fun activities for families. This year’s observation of the holiday was even more special for the park. Riverview Park became a natio...

By Sean P. Ray | Managing Editor OBSERVATORY HILL — It’s not uncommon for people to gather at the Allegheny Observatory to catch glimpses of stars, moons or planets, but the crowd that gathered on April 8 was much larger than usual. That’s because, rather than using the sophisticated telescopes of t...

By Sean P. Ray | Managing Editor Spring has finally sprung and the weather should (hopefully) be warming up. So in celebration of putting winter behind us, let’s take another look at our weekly poll results. Kicking things off for the March polls, we asked how our readers felt about the Chestnut Str...

By Sean P. Ray | Managing Editor BRIGHTON HEIGHTS — Roughly 15 years after its previous iteration was dismantled, ground was broken on the new Davis Avenue Bridge on April 11, once more connecting Brighton Heights with Riverview Park. The bridge, unlike its predecessor, is a pedestrian and bicyclist...