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A Mellon Park celebration of Juneteenth - This year’s federal holiday of Juneteenth hitting on a Thursday set the stage for a four day
festival of music and family events at Mellon Park to celebrate the holiday. William “B” Marshall, the producer of the event, provided four evenings of music including The Blackbyrds, shown above, who played their hit “Walking in Rhythm" to a large crowd on Saturday, June 21.. Find out more about what's happening in Pittsburgh and the East End by picking up Print at one of our retailers. Never miss another issue by subscribing to Print today.
From the July issue...
School Board votes to start closure process
The Pittsburgh Public Schools' Board of Directors voted 5-4 in favor of holding the public hearings necessary to close nine public school buildings
The board will hold hearings July 21, 22, 28, 29, and 30 at the Board of Education's administration building on Bellefield Street in Oakland.​
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The nine school buildings that are listed to be closed are Baxter, Friendship, Fulton, Manchester PreK-8, Miller, Morrow, Schiller, Spring Hill PreK-5, and Woolslair.
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The grass is growing on Stargell Field ​
After seven years of planning and two years of construction the progress is apparent on Stargell Field in Homewood. The newly renovated park will have a regulation-sized football field (the last one was too short), a pool, a playground, and an amphitheater.
The Pittsburgh Public Art and Civic Design Commission has also chosen four artists whose work will be included in the park when it is completed: Camerin “Camo” Nesbit, Juliandra Jones, Mikael Owunna, and Najja Moon.
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Westinghouse Park takes a step toward landmark status​​
Point Breeze’s Westinghouse Park has cleared its first hurdle for being designated a Pittsburgh Historic Landmark. At a July 2 meeting of Pittsburgh’s Historic Review Commission, the Westinghouse application was reviewed for “determination of reasonable cause,” the first step in the process before Landmark status is finally approved by the mayor and city council The motion passed unanimously wth one abstention.
Read more about it in the July issue of Print.
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