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June 15, 2016: “Art in the Park, a weekly summer event held at the Penn Avenue Parklet in Wilkinsburg, starts Thursday with painters, poets and singers gathering at 743 Penn …

June 3, 2016: Interim Wilkinsburg High School Principal Shawn Johnston’s voice reverberated through the intercom into bare, empty hallways on the second to last day of school. Packing boxes had arrived in the …

May 24, 2016: “Taiwan Brewer, 14, focused on the egg on his spoon. Without looking up, he slowly walked about 15 feet to an orange cone and turned. His teammates …

May 23, 2016: “#Community: “This event shows a community that works together and lives together. Just like any community, it has good and bad,” says Rev. Thomas Mitchell. He and …

May 23, 2016: “A creative new project in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, is all about changing the conversation around vacancy and abandonment in the community. In its second year, the Vacant Home …

May 21, 2016: “Cecilia Sims made her way through the tents and tables that popped up in the vacant lots between Penn and Wallace avenues near Center Street in Wilkinsburg. …

May 20, 2016: “Experience all things Wilkinsburg this weekend at “Link on Penn,” a community event celebrating local businesses and organizations in the Pittsburgh suburb. Tim Murdoch, Steering Committee member …

May 7, 2016: “More than 100 Little League baseball players marched through the streets of Wilkinsburg Saturday, but the event was more than just a celebration of a new baseball …

May 6, 2016: “Pittsburgh Urban Christian School students are working to clean up vacant homes in Wilkinsburg. Students ranging from kindergarten through eighth-grade clean up abandoned and historical buildings, making them …

May 6, 2016: “The abandoned homes and businesses of many an American city all formed the bedrock of people’s lives once upon a time — and they could again. Reminding …

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May 3, 2016: “At the top of Holland Avenue, on two vacant lots of land, sits a white house that has been boarded up like many others in Wilkinsburg. But …

May 2, 2016: “Then, starting at 11 a.m., check out a different take on a house tour—the Wilkinsburg Vacant Home Tour will showcase homes that are full of potential. This …

April 27, 2016: “In a matter of weeks, historic Wilkinsburg High School will close its doors. But before then, school leaders wanted to give students the opportunity to enjoy their …

April 25, 2016: While many vacant homes continue to crumble in Wilkinsburg, a select few will have their stories told. The Wilkinsburg Vacant Home Tour began as a project by Carnegie …

April 22, 2016: The long-vacant Wilkinsburg train station may get a new owner and purpose. The Wilkinsburg Community Development Corporation wants to acquire the historic station, which was built in 1916 and …

April 5, 2016: Jeff Lovett says when it came time to open a brick-and-mortar store for and its line of hand-crafted apothecary and cleaning products, there was only one location that …

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