By Sean P. Ray | Managing Editor “It feels like a miracle.” Those are the words Northside boxer Delbert “Sonny” Taylor used to describe how he feels having a shot at competing in the 2024 Summer Olympics set to take place in Paris. Taylor, who grew up on the Northside, is one of two boxers training ...

By Sean P. Ray | Managing Editor “It feels like a miracle.” Those are the words Northside boxer Delbert “Sonny” Taylor used to describe how he feels having a shot at competing in the 2024 Summer Olympics set to take place in Paris. Taylor, who grew up on the Northside, is one of two boxers training ...

Photo: Pete Geissler, right, wrote a book with his son Jeff, left, about George Ferris, the inventory of the Ferris wheel. By Sean P. Ray | Managing Editor Welcome to 2023, Northside! With the coming of January, another year has passed. And what a year it has been! Here at the Northside Chronicle, w...

By Ashlee Green Photos by Clifton Loosier It’s 6:30 p.m. on a Monday night and the city is winding down as workers head home for the day. But for Eric Quarles, 20, of Manchester, and Justin Bermudez, 16, of Perry Hilltop, the action is just getting started. “Let’s go, let’s go,” “Giddy up, giddy up,...

Amidst a rough childhood, Josh and Jessee Mook found solace through boxing and are now helping their adopted father pay it forward at North Hills boxing gym. By: Tyler Polk Jack Mook, 48, a boxing coach, military veteran and former police officer in the City of Pittsburgh for 25 years believes, “a c...

The Spring Hill gym will pit its best boxers against the rest of the Greater Pittsburgh area in September 29 event: 'Northside vs. The Outside III' By: Charles Davis A boxing gym is judged by the fighters it trains. Steel City Boxing has produced a number of standouts. Bobby Helms, 23, Danny Bodish,...