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New group tackling crime, clutter in community

By Austin Weekly News | December 15, 2010

An Austin couple started the new organization in August after the police didn’t respond to a fight outside their home. Learn how you can get involved.

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Green cleaning this week

By AustinTalks | December 12, 2010

Join students from Austin Business and Entrepreneurship Academy Dec. 15th as they help clean the streets of Austin.

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Free citizen watchdog training in Austin

By Better Government Association | November 23, 2010

Learn how to keep an eye on government and make it work for you. The first session will be held Nov. 29th and the second session will be Dec. 6th.

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West Siders gather to share poetry and their lives

By Darryl Holliday | August 25, 2010

The next monthly poetry reading at the North Austin Public Library will be in October.

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Quincy Street kids kick off the new school year

By Angelica Jimenez | August 23, 2010

Neighbors in the 5300, 5400 and 5500 block of Quincy Street celebrated the end of summer and their tight-knit community last weekend.

Opinion

Please take a ride to my block

By John W. Fountain III | August 17, 2010

Commentator John W. Fountain III shares where he gets some of his ideas and why he likes his neighborhood.

Community

Garden offers West Side oasis

By Shardaa Gray | July 30, 2010

Stop by the 14-year-old garden in the 5700 block of Division and take a deep breath.

News

Austin-Oak Park Justice Center back in business

By Austin Weekly News | July 10, 2010

Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez reopens community satellite office that closed in 2007.

News

A jewel in Austin

By Maya Ferdynus | July 9, 2010

Longtime West Side resident Mary Brown fights crime, helps her neighbors and makes her community better.

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“100 blocks and 100 churches” ended tonight with a praise rally

By AustinTalks | June 30, 2010

AustinTalks was there, documenting the end of the month-long campaign to take back the streets.

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  • Expungement, record sealing event helps West Siders get jobs after leaving prison

    Austin resident Anthony Jefferson has been working over the past six years to expunge his criminal record. With help from the Monroe Foundation, he's moving toward the clean slate he wants to achieve to secure employment.

  • Get free groceries, other help from these Austin groups

    On a recent Thursday, volunteers from What About Us Charitable Enterprises spent the morning filling dozens of grocery bags with fresh food and staples that soon filled the arms of West Side residents in need. Dorin “Pastor Mac” McIntyre, executive director and co-founder of What About Us Charitable Enterprises and pastor of Mount Olivet Missionary Baptist Church, is one of many helping Austin residents struggling with food insecurity.

  • 29th Ward residents invited to holiday events on Tuesday

  • 29th Ward residents invited to propose how to spend $450,000

    Austin residents are invited to participate in this year's participatory budgeting cycle. The annual process lets ward residents ages 14 and up decide how to spend a portion of the aldermanic menu money.

  • Forty Acres Fresh Market marks important moment this week in bringing store to Austin

    Austin moves one step closer this week to getting a new grocery store with the groundbreaking of Forty Acres Fresh Market in the heart of the Soul City Corridor. Another effort to expand food offerings on the West Side continues with the Austin Community Food Co-op, which held a virtual info session last week on its efforts to bring a grocery store to the area.

  • Healing in nature workshop set for Saturday

    The Westside Cultural Alliance continues its "See, Feel and Heal" nature series Saturday at Garfield Park Nature Area, 100 N. Central Park with a workshop on making memory boxes. The workshop sessions focus on art and nature as vehicles of healing through art therapy, which provides wholistic healing for the body, mind and spirit.

  • Illinois residents can apply for help with paying gas, electric bills

    Applications are now open for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) for qualified residential customers who are over the age of 60, have a disability or have children under the age of 6 to receive financial assistance to pay their energy bills. LIHEAP is a federally funded bill payment assistance program that helps low- and fixed-income families pay their utility during the winter heating season.

  • West Siders turn out for chili cook off in Austin’s Soul City

    Over a dozen local chefs competed in the second annual "It’s Getting Chili in Soul City" event on Saturday. A team of five who make up the Austin African American Business Networking Association board – Malcolm Crawford, Shirley Fields, Sharmine Rickett, Ronald Smith and Marshawn Felton – created the chili contest last year.

  • Chicago Marathon runner raises money for West Side girls

    Over the last 20 years, Ashley Graham has run 56 marathons - including the Chicago Marathon five times. Several of those marathons she raised money for charity - and this year was no different.

  • Stop by Austin farmers market this week

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