The week in pictures in Pittsburgh and surrounding areas as seen through the eyes of our photojournalists. Check back regularly as we update from across our region throughout the week.
Volunteers, including Bill Baxter, left, of Ross, pick up trash while rappelling on the slopes of Mount Washington during the 28th annual Emerald View Park cleanup event hosted by the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy and the Explorers Club of Pittsburgh, where Volunteer rock climbers and mountaineers with rappelling experience clean up trash along the steep slopes of Mount Washington, Saturday, April 10, 2021. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette) Kendall Mozezien, 9, of Ross, left, holds out her hand to her sister Brianna, 6, to help her climb up a rock near the waterfall at Fall Run Park on Saturday, April 10, 2021, in Shaler. The sisters were there with their aunt Natalie Smetanka, who lives near the park. (Emily Matthews/Post-Gazette)
Attendees pray during the Jummah Prayer service led by Imam Abdul Aziz Suraqah at the Muslim Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh Friday, Apr. 9, 2021 in Monroeville. (Pam Panchak/Post-Gazette)
People bike along the Three Rivers Heritage Trail, Downtown, Saturday, April 10, 2021. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)
Shady Side Academy’s Melissa Riggins won the 1,600-meter run at the South Hills Classic Track and Field meet at Gateway High School on Saturday April 10, 2021 in Monroeville. She beat out a star-studded field that included three former PIAA champions to capture first place in the 1,600-meter run at the first big invitational of the high school season.(Barry Reeger/For the Post-Gazette)
Cubs center fielder Ian Happ can’t come up with a double hit by Pirates shortstop Erik Gonzalez in the second inning Saturday, April 10, 2021, at PNC Park. (Matt Freed/Post-Gazette)
Pirates shortstop Erik Gonzalez, Gregory Polanco and Adam Frazier celebrate after defeating the Cubs Saturday, April 10, 2021, at PNC Park. (Matt Freed/Post-Gazette)
Massachusetts goaltender Filip Lindberg makes save against St. Cloud St. forward Zach Okabe during the NCAA hockey Frozen Four championship Saturday, April 10, 2021, at PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh. (Peter Diana/Post-Gazette)
Lexi Scalise, 19, sanitizes the PNC Carousel in Schenley Plaza Friday, April 9, 2021, in Oakland. (Matt Freed/Post-Gazette)
A group of firefighters near the border of Ohiopyle State Park after a fire destroyed more than 200 acres in the Victoria Flats area of Rock Spring Road on Friday, April 9, 2021, in Fayette County. (Andrew Rush/Post-Gazette)
Brenda Esaly of Louisville, Ohio, polishes a 1957 Chevrolet Nomad station wagon that she owns with her husband Gene in preparation for the World of Wheels auto show at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Downtown, on Thursday, April 8, 2021. The show opens Friday at 3 p.m. and runs through Sunday. (Steve Mellon/Post-Gazette)
Mathew Conboy, of the North Side, stands for the National Anthem before the Pirates take on the Cubs Thursday, April 8, 2021, at PNC Park. (Matt Freed/Post-Gazette)
Dominick DeGennaro, with the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy, walks along the East Promenade in Allegheny Commons Park Wednesday, Apr. 8, 2021, in Pittsburgh. (Pam Panchak/Post-Gazette)
Cleaning supervisor Michael Hahn cleans cobwebs off seats before the Pirates open their home season against the Cubs Thursday, April 8, 2021, at PNC Park. (Matt Freed/Post-Gazette)
The Renagades of the Rotunda stand on the left-field rotunda as the Pirates take on the Cubs Thursday, April 8, 2021, at PNC Park. (Matt Freed/Post-Gazette)
Cubs shortstop Javier Baez gets Pirates second baseman Adam Frazier out on a double play in the first inning Thursday, April 8, 2021, at PNC Park. (Matt Freed/Post-Gazette)
Pirates shortstop Kevin Newman tags out Cubs center fielder Jake Marisnick on a steal attempt in the fourth inning Thursday, April 8, 2021, at PNC Park. (Matt Freed/Post-Gazette)
Carley Boyle of Robinson has her picture made with Renegades of the Rotunda on Federal Street shortly before the Pirates’ home opener at PNC Park on Thursday, April 8, 2021. (Steve Mellon/Post-Gazette)
Fans gather on Federal Street for the Pirates’ home opener at PNC Park on Thursday, April 8, 2021. (Steve Mellon/Post-Gazette)
Eric Pierce, 24, of Uptown, receives a COVID-19 vaccine at a clinic run by Spartan Pharmacy at the Broughton Volunteer Fire Department, Wednesday, April 7, 2021, in South Park. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)
South Fayette’s Tristan Bedillion celebrates after hitting a two-run home run against Moon Wednesday, April 7, 2021, at Moon Area High School. (Matt Freed/Post-Gazette)
Governor Tom Wolf speaks with Jacquelyn Ruffin Adams, of McKeesport, after a news conference at Bethlehem Baptist Church on Wednesday, April 7, 2021, in McKeesport. (Andrew Rush/Post-Gazette)
Clairton Coke Works and the city of Clairton photographed on Wednesday, April 7, 2021, in Clairton. (Andrew Rush/Post-Gazette)
Community Day School student Benjamin Pinkston waits his turn as Abigail Naveh lights a candle during a Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, ceremony, which was broadcasted virtually, next to the “Keeping Tabs” wall-like sculpture in front of Community Day School in Squirrel Hill, Wednesday, April 7, 2021. Six million beverage can tabs are incorporated into the “Keeping Tabs” sculpture in honor of the approximately six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)
Michael Zech from Brighton Heights gets a little tuba practice in while waiting on a friend to play disc golf at Schenley Park Wednesday, Apr. 8, 2021, in Pittsburgh. (Pam Panchak/Post-Gazette)
Allegheny Health Network hosts a vaccine clinic for those in the 1A and 1B phases on Tuesday, April 6, 2021, at DICK’S Sporting Goods’ Corporate Office in Coraopolis. Allegheny Health Network vaccinated over 6500 people, making it their biggest clinic yet. (Emily Matthews/Post-Gazette)
Eleventh grader Quincy Garland is one of two students in Terry Monroes AP English class at Brashear High School on the first day of in-person instruction for Pittsburgh Public Schools on Tuesday, April 6, 2021, in Beechview. (Andrew Rush/Post-Gazette)
A squirrel sits in a flowering tree in Allegheny Commons Park, Tuesday, April 6, 2021, on the North Side. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)
A person clean the bottom of Lake Elizabeth during What the Muck – the annual Lake cleanup in Allegheny Commons Park on Tuesday, April 6, 2021, on the North Shore. (Andrew Rush/Post-Gazette)
Houses on the North Side photographed on Tuesday, April 6, 2021. (Andrew Rush/Post-Gazette)
Tenth grader Angelo Murphy, left, and Ninth-grader Aaron Benton walk to Allderdice High School on the first day of in-person instruction for Pittsburgh Public Schools on Tuesday, April 6, 2021, in Squirrel Hill. (Andrew Rush/Post-Gazette)
Stephanie Enciso, of Apollo, and her daughter Olivia, 2, and Natalie Gourley, of Fox Chapel, and her daughters Eliza, 3, and Amelia, 6 months, clap along to music during a pop-up outdoors Kindermusik class, an educational and interactive music class for children and their families, Tuesday, April 6, 2021, outside of First United Presbyterian Church in Tarentum. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)
People, who are mostly students in medical fields at Duquesne University, wait for members of the community to come in to receive their vaccines at a clinic run by the Allegheny County Health Department in partnership with the Duquesne University Center for Integrative Health at Central Baptist Church in the Hill District, Monday, April 5, 2021. The clinic made the vaccine available to members of the community with no appointment needed. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)
An usher looks out to the field on Easter before the Pirates take on the Cubs Sunday, April 4, 2021, at Wrigley Field in Chicago. (Matt Freed/Post-Gazette)
Cubs third baseman Kris Bryant gets into second base against Pirates second baseman Adam Frazier in the first inning Sunday, April 4, 2021, at Wrigley Field in Chicago. (Matt Freed/Post-Gazette)
A memorial for Pittsburgh Bureau of Police officer Paul Sciullo, Stephen Mayhle, and Eric Kelly, who were killed in the line of duty on April 4, 2009, can be seen on Sunday, April 4, 2021, at the Zone 5 Police Station. (Emily Matthews/Post-Gazette)
Terri Hall, of the Hill District, receives the COVID-19 vaccine from Mackenzie Walters, a pharmacy student at Duquesne University, at a clinic run by the Allegheny County Health Department in partnership with the Duquesne University Center for Integrative Health at Central Baptist Church in the Hill District, Monday, April 5, 2021. The clinic made the vaccine available to members of the community with no appointment needed. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)
People eat and drink at Fuel and Fuddle, Sunday, April 4, 2021, in Oakland. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)
Lauren McGrady, 19, of Upper St. Clair, right, tees off, as her father Brian McGrady and Mike Lizik, of South Park, who is a manager at the course, look on at the South Park Golf Course, Monday, April 5, 2021, in South Park. The North and South Park golf courses reopened for the season last week. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)
Robin Cook, 5, of Millvale, rides his bike through the pavilion at Aspinwall Riverfront Park, which is decorated with the “Waves of Gratitude” art installation, which features messages of gratitude submitted by members of the public, Sunday, April 4, 2021, in Aspinwall. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)
A person runs by cherry blossom trees in North Park on Monday, April 5, 2021, in McCandless. (Emily Matthews/Post-Gazette)
Firefighters respond to a fire in the 1100 block of East Carson Street, which includes Jack’s Bar and the apartments above it, on Monday, April 5, 2021, in the South Side. (Emily Matthews/Post-Gazette)
A new Sensory Room on the Suite Level was introduced during a “What’s New at PNC Park” media event at PNC Park on Monday, April 5, 2021, on the North Shore. (Andrew Rush/Post-Gazette)
Social distancing line decals can be seen on the floor during a “What’s New at PNC Park” media event at PNC Park on Monday, April 5, 2021, on the North Shore. (Andrew Rush/Post-Gazette)
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