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West Side schools compete for top honors in knowledge bowl

By Jennifer T. Lacey | May 16, 2011

Find out which Austin students participated in the 5th annual Prevention Bowl, held last week at U.S. Cellular Field.

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West Side students eating all kinds of fruit and veggies

By AustinTalks | May 11, 2011

John Hay Elementary Community Academy is one of 14 Chicago schools that’s serving fresh produce as part of a federal grant.

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Religion should be kept out of schools

By V.O.I.S.E. Academy | April 11, 2011

In an editorial, journalist Amber Richardson urges teachers and students to discuss their spiritual beliefs elsewhere.

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Some students want the right to wear their own clothes to school

By V.O.I.S.E. Academy | April 11, 2011

Journalist Eddonishia Jones hopes schools officials will consider letting students ditch their uniform on some days.

Opinion

Stand For Children Illinois stands for billionaires and corporations

By Dwayne Truss | April 1, 2011

Learn more about an effort at the state level to change the way public teachers are evaluated – and how one Austin resident feels about it.

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Austin artists raise awareness with exhibition

By Jennifer T. Lacey | April 1, 2011

Today, from 4 to 8 p.m., is the last day to see the Wired Art exhibition at the Austin Wellness Center, 4800 W. Chicago Ave. Admission is free.

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CPS reviews Catalyst-Howland school’s contract

By Jennifer T. Lacey | March 18, 2011

The charter is seeking permission to continue operating for another five years in North Lawndale.

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Student V.O.I.S.E. – Speak the truth

By V.O.I.S.E. Academy | January 3, 2011

What age is too young to have sex? Should cell phones be allowed in school? Code Blue takes on these issues.

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Introducing the V.O.I.S.E. of Austin

By V.O.I.S.E. Academy | January 2, 2011

Be sure to visit AustinTalks Jan. 3rd, when we publish the work of a new high school online paper called Code Blue, produced by the students of Virtual Opportunities in a School Environment.

Community

Austin High School campus alive with dance

By Darryl Holliday | December 21, 2010

Students participating in After School Matters performed a winter dance celebration last week. See what you missed!

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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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