Despite record high temperatures over the last week, many still prefer summer rays to winter blues. The Allegheny Front's Ilana Yergin spent some time talking to people hanging out at urban parks in Pittsburgh to learn more about why they look forward to summertime.
The problems of a critical mass of aging farmers and high unemployment rates among veterans have resulted in the creation of The Farmer-Veteran Coalition. Just in time for Veteran's Day, The Allegheny Front's Ilana Yergin visited a local man who went from field artillery to the fields of a sustainable farm, named Serenity Valley, outside Pittsburgh.
The Marcellus Shale Advisory Commision held its second to last meeting in Harrisburg recently. The secretary of the Department of Health asked for resources to enable further study of Marcellus Shale drilling health impacts.
From the outside, Pace School looks small and is oddly quiet considering it serves students in kindergarten through ninth grade.
Inside, the school is anything but.
Pace serves students with emotional challenges or autism by using a blend of special education and mental health services. One of the programs the school prides itself on are the visiting artists, including Liz Berlin and Preach Freedom of the band Rusted Root.
WYEP’s Brian Siewiorek sat down with Nate Query and Jenny Conlee of The Decemberists this April before their sold-out show at the Benedum Center. The band members discuss the making of “The King is Dead”, as well as their upcoming hiatus.
In late April 1975, shortly before the capture of Saigon by North Vietnamese forces, 8-year-old Han-Hoan Dang fled the city with his parents, two younger sisters and some of his extended family.
His grandfather - an importer and exporter of sporting goods in Saigon who had done significant business with the Americans, French and British - feared persecution from the communists, and was able to get his family refugee status to flee to the United States.
“It was very chaotic,” said Dang of the city the day his family left. “People were lining up in the streets. It looked like they were lining up to get out of the city.”
Two months after the Sewickley Community Garden began the summer season, the garden is doing well.
Hundreds of these houses are found across Pittsburgh, many of them in Regent Square, and the owners take pride in where they live.
Despite record high temperatures over the last week, many still prefer summer rays to winter blues. The Allegheny Front's Ilana Yergin spent some time talking to people hanging out at urban parks in Pittsburgh to learn more about why they look forward to summertime.
The problems of a critical mass of aging farmers and high unemployment rates among veterans have resulted in the creation of The Farmer-Veteran Coalition. Just in time for Veteran's Day, The Allegheny Front's Ilana Yergin visited a local man who went from field artillery to the fields of a sustainable farm, named Serenity Valley, outside Pittsburgh. 
The Marcellus Shale Advisory Commision held its second to last meeting in Harrisburg recently. The secretary of the Department of Health asked for resources to enable further study of Marcellus Shale drilling health impacts.
From the outside, Pace School looks small and is oddly quiet considering it serves students in kindergarten through ninth grade.
WYEP’s Brian Siewiorek sat down with Nate Query and Jenny Conlee of The Decemberists this April before their sold-out show at the Benedum Center. The band members discuss the making of “The King is Dead”, as well as their upcoming hiatus.
In late April 1975, shortly before the capture of Saigon by North Vietnamese forces, 8-year-old Han-Hoan Dang fled the city with his parents, two younger sisters and some of his extended family.