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Noelyne J. Pearce of Highland Park
Tribune-Review Obituaries
Jan 27Noelyne J. Pearce, 73, of Highland Park, passed away after a long fought battle with an extended illness. Born in 1939, in Calcutta, India, she was the daughter of the late Ernest Ross and Inez Laualette; and loving mother of Aneysha Pearce and her hus... »
Stewart O'Nan's new novel is a funny, touching portrait of a marriage on the brink
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Jan 25A bankrupt couple travels to Niagara Falls in the comic novel The Odds: A Love Story. by Bill O'Driscoll Stewart O'Nan is a novelist of the everyday. He's the kind of writer who, in his 2011 novel Emily, Alone, found poetry in the daily habits of a fin... »
Savings bond switch leaves 'em grousing
Tribune Review Business
Jan 25Marc Bodell of Highland Park made a routine trip to his bank branch in Fox Chapel recently after a friend had a baby. »
Pittsburgh officers honored for acts during flash flood, attack
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Jan 24Ten police officers stepped out of the Highland Park police station and into what felt like a foreign world of rushing water and unknown dangers. The familiar landscape of Washington Boulevard had been transformed on that August day by a massive flash ... »
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When a challenge isn't
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Jan 28Well, this is curious semantics. A news article just out says: Many city homeowners may find property tax payments reduced. In it one of the first lines is:"This estimate was released today by RealSTATS, which challenged University of Pittsburgh econ... »
Tunnel Monster Awareness Day
That's Church
Jan 17The state Department of Environmental Protection has been notified about a significant layer of a purple substance along the Allegheny River. The unknown substance currently stretches from Sharpsburg to the area of the Highland Park Bridge, spokesman... »
Like the square root of negative one
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Jan 11(Note Wednesday January 11: If this is your first time here and are only interested in Allegheny County property assessments, before you look at the maps, you probably want to look at this earlier post where I go through explicitly the tax neutrality c... »
Play-by-play animation of the city’s growing on-street bicycle markings
Bike Pittsburgh
Dec 08Click image to make bigger Pittsburgh’s growing network of on-street bike markings Since 2007, we’ve worked with the City to install a number of on-street bike markings, which include bike lanes and shared lane markings, or “sharrows.” The above map ... »
Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy’s Award Winning Gardens
Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy Blog
Dec 01This year the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society has recognized three of the gardens the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy has designed and maintains in partnership with the City with the Community Greening Award. The PHS grants this annual award to recogni... »