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It's not the holidays until you hear a school choir - The Helen Faison Elementary School choir performed for the Homewood Children's Village community dinner. Find out more about what's happening in the East End by picking up Print at one of our retailers. Never miss another issue by subscribing to Print today.
From the December issue...
PPS needs to figure out a new feeder pattern
As the Pittsburgh Public Schools consider closing schools and reconfiguring grades, the system will need new attendance zones for each school. For instance Obama Academy currently is a whole school magnet, without its own feeder zone.
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In emails obtained by Print, the Boston-based consultants that developed the Facilities Utilization Plan stated that Pittsburgh with its rivers, hills and neighborhoods defy an easy solution to setting up a feeder pattern and so, they left the question of which children will go to what school unansered in the East End.
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​​​​​Read more in the December 19 edition of Print.
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North Homewood Ave suffers loses, sees investment
The deaths of Joe Simmons, the owner of Dana's Donuts and Farouk Salik Sr., the owner of Salik's hardware has caused leadership changes in two legacy businesses, each of which have been anchors for North Homewood Avenue for more than 40 years. Now the Urban Redevelopment Authority is looking to invest along he street by shoring up one building, razing six others and leaving the lots shovel ready for new development.
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Historical Society looks back at Christmases of the Gilded Age
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Local historian Sue Morris has been collecting the stories and memorabilia of Christmases of the Gilded Age, that period from about 1870 to World War I when the robber barons ruled industry in Pittsburgh and beyond. What she has found is many of the holiday traditions we keep today got their start in the late 19th century or were imported by immigrants who came here to work. Morris put her research together for the East Liberty Valley Historical Society.
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Read about more in the December issue of Print.
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