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Presented by Mrs. Harris
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WHEREAS, “The Mill Hunk Herald Quarterly” and ”The Martian Chronicles” were the inspiration for the first, February/March 1985, issue of The Northside Chronicle, Larry Evans, the newspaper's first editor, noted similarities with the book and North Side life as he got to know the all-stars of the neighborhood business districts, the War Street, Manchester and Perry North; and
WHEREAS, publishing every other month, the Chronicle instantly inspired district writers and community interest and would never have gotten off the ground except for seed money from the Community Technical Assistance Center, and early editorial meetings that included debates regarding community survival, self-determination and preserving the unique heritage of the Grand Old Allegheny; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Evans left his Middle Street home where the now monthly The Northside Chronicle was published for a graduate fellowship at Rutgers, so John Lyons took over the Chronicle for 20 years through funded and non-funded times feeling the Chronicle essential to connecting neighborhoods relaying positive news; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Lyons, worked in Purchasing for the City of Pittsburgh, produced the Chronicle as a labor of love taking no pay and felt duty to his North Side neighbors to keep their news front and center, Mr. Lyons barely had an ad base and used some of his own money to publish the Chronicle, he closed the Chronicle for three months in the summer of '86, but his commitment saved the newspaper; and
WHEREAS, serious debt in 2003 lead to the Northside Community Development Fund buying control and moving the Chronicle to the Fund's office on Middle Street, down the street from where the Chronicle began, and investments allowed Mr. Lyons to print in color and use digital lay outs; and
WHEREAS, thrown by Mr. Lyon's death in 2005, the Chronicle struggled for a bit both financially and editorially, finally hiring Dan Richey as both editor an...
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