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.
Mt. Lebanon’s Grayson Dee (32) hugs a coach in the final minutes of their game against St. Joseph’s Prep in the PIAA Class 6A state championship game, Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021, at Hersheypark Stadium in Hershey. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)Mt. Lebanon players, including Tommy Boehner (17), celebrate with fans and cheerleaders after defeating St. Joseph’s Prep in the PIAA Class 6A state championship game, Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021, at Hersheypark Stadium in Hershey. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)Mt. Lebanon’s Eli Heidenreich (8) cheers toward the crowd as he celebrates with his team after defeating St. Joseph’s Prep in the PIAA Class 6A state championship game, Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021, at Hersheypark Stadium in Hershey. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)Mt. Lebanon players Eli Heidenreich (8) and Alex Tecza (5) hoist the trophy after defeating St. Joseph’s Prep in the PIAA Class 6A state championship game, Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021, at Hersheypark Stadium in Hershey. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)Mt. Lebanon head coach Bob Palko celebrates with players after they defeated St. Joseph’s Prep in the PIAA Class 6A state championship game, Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021, at Hersheypark Stadium in Hershey. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)Mt. Lebanon head coach Bob Palko and St. Joseph’s Prep head coach Tim Roken share a moment of congratulations after Mt. Lebanon defeated St. Joseph’s Prep in the PIAA Class 6A state championship game, Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021, at Hersheypark Stadium in Hershey. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)Mt. Lebanon players celebrate after defeating St. Joseph’s Prep in the PIAA Class 6A state championship game, Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021, at Hersheypark Stadium in Hershey. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)Mt. Lebanon fans cheer during their game against St. Joseph’s Prep in the PIAA Class 6A state championship game, Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021, at Hersheypark Stadium in Hershey. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)Mt. Lebanon’s Eli Heidenreich (8) catches a pass in the PIAA Class 6A state championship game against St. Joseph’s Prep, Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021, at Hersheypark Stadium in Hershey. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)Mt. Lebanon’s William Harvey (75) plays defense in the PIAA Class 6A state championship game against St. Joseph’s Prep, Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021, at Hersheypark Stadium in Hershey. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)Mt. Lebanon’s Alex Tecza (5) runs around St. Joseph’s Prep defense during the PIAA Class 6A state championship game, Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021, at Hersheypark Stadium in Hershey. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)Central Valley’s Jack Bible, center, hoists the trophy while celebrating the team’s victory over Wyomissing in the PIAA Class 3A state championship game, Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021, at Hersheypark Stadium in Hershey. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)Central Valley’s Jaden Brazos (26) lifts an oversized Hershey’s chocolate bar over his head and cheers as he and other players celebrate the team’s victory over Wyomissing in the PIAA Class 3A state championship game, Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021, at Hersheypark Stadium in Hershey. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)Central Valley’s Sean FitzSimmons (50) plays defense against Wyomissing during the PIAA Class 3A state championship game, Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021, at Hersheypark Stadium in Hershey. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)Central Valley’s Matt Merritt (6) carries the ball past Wyomissing defense during the PIAA Class 3A state championship game, Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021, at Hersheypark Stadium in Hershey. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)Central Valley’s Landon Alexander (23) evades the tackle from Wyomissing’s Charles McIntyre (20) during the PIAA Class 3A state championship game, Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021, at Hersheypark Stadium in Hershey. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)Central Valley’s Landon Alexander (23) runs to the end zone to score against Wyomissing during the PIAA Class 3A state championship game, Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021, at Hersheypark Stadium in Hershey. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)Central Valley’s head coach Mark Lyons celebrates the team’s victory over Wyomissing in the PIAA Class 3A state championship game, Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021, at Hersheypark Stadium in Hershey. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)Central Valley’s head coach Mark Lyons hugs Sean FitzSimmons as they celebrate the team’s victory over Wyomissing in the PIAA Class 3A state championship game, Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021, at Hersheypark Stadium in Hershey. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)Central Valley’s head coach Mark Lyons hugs Sean FitzSimmons as they celebrate the team’s victory over Wyomissing in the PIAA Class 3A state championship game, Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021, at Hersheypark Stadium in Hershey. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin reacts as fans cheer for him as he enters the field for warmups before his team takes on the Vikings, Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021, at U.S Bank Stadium. (Matt Freed/Post-Gazette)Steelers fans cheer as their team takes the field for warmups before taking on the Vikings, Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021, at U.S Bank Stadium. (Matt Freed/Post-Gazette)Steelers fans watch as their team takes the field for warmups before taking on the Vikings, Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021, at U.S Bank Stadium. (Matt Freed/Post-Gazette)Vikings safety Harrison Smith sacks Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger in the second quarter, Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021, at U.S Bank Stadium. (Matt Freed/Post-Gazette)Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger scrambles against the Vikings in the first quarter, Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021, at U.S Bank Stadium. (Matt Freed/Post-Gazette)Steelers running back Najee Harris is smothered by the Vikings defense in the second quarter, Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021, at U.S Bank Stadium. (Matt Freed/Post-Gazette)Steelers tight end Pat Freiermuth cant pull in a pass in the end zone during the final seconds of the game in front of Vikings safety Harrison Smith, Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021, at U.S Bank Stadium. (Matt Freed/Post-Gazette)Steelers tight end Pat Freiermuth reacts after he couldnt pull in a pass in the end zone during the final seconds of the game in front of Vikings safety Harrison Smith, Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021, at U.S Bank Stadium. (Matt Freed/Post-Gazette)Lighthouse Immersive’s 92-foot-tall Vincent van Gogh hot air balloon on Flagstaff Hill on Friday, Dec. 10, 2021, in Oakland. The balloon was brought to the city to promote the Immersive Van Gogh Pittsburgh exhibit on the North Side. (Andrew Rush/Post-Gazette)Lighthouse Immersive’s 92-foot-tall Vincent van Gogh hot air balloon on Flagstaff Hill on Friday, Dec. 10, 2021, in Oakland. The balloon was brought to the city to promote the Immersive Van Gogh Pittsburgh exhibit on the North Side. (Andrew Rush/Post-Gazette)Lighthouse Immersive’s 92-foot-tall Vincent van Gogh hot air balloon on Flagstaff Hill on Friday, Dec. 10, 2021, in Oakland. The balloon was brought to the city to promote the Immersive Van Gogh Pittsburgh exhibit on the North Side. (Andrew Rush/Post-Gazette)Linda Susan Blackmore, a Lab Data Process Coordinator, shows Jeff Carlson, the Vice President of the Pathology Institute at Allegheny Health Network’s Allegheny Valley Hospital, one of the new phlebotomy chairs after a ribbon cutting ceremony for the New Kensington Outpatient Center in Kensington Square on Monday, Dec. 6, 2021, in Baldwin. The services were previously located in the former Citizen’s General Hospital campus. (Andrew Rush/Post-Gazette)Gabriel D. Ajang holds the bag he carried all of his belongings to the United States while speaks to a 9th grade Honors English class at Baldwin High School on Monday, Dec. 6, 2021, in Baldwin. Ajang, a refugee from Sudan, spoke to the class about being one of the “Lost Boys” during the Second Sudanese Civil War in the 1987. Ajang and his family now live in Baldwin and his children attend school in the Baldwin-Whitehall School District. (Andrew Rush/Post-Gazette)Aspinwall firefighters extinguish a car fire on Rt. 28 near the Delafield Ave. exit after a multiple vehicle accident on Monday, Dec. 6, 2021, in Fox Chapel. (Andrew Rush/Post-Gazette)John Burkhart, with masonry contractor Cost Company, washes block on the construction site of Digital Foundry, a digital innovation lab, on Monday, Dec. 6, 2021, in New Kensington. (Andrew Rush/Post-Gazette)A walker braves the overcast sky and constant drizzle for a turn around the Highland Park Reservoir Monday, December 6, 2021, in Highland Park. (Pam Panchak/Post-Gazette)Gov. Tom Wolf, left, accepts a gold menorah presented by Tree of Life Rabbi Jeffrey Myers during a news conference to discuss the awarding of $6.6 million for redevelopment of the Tree of Life synagogue in Squirrel Hill on Monday, Dec. 6, 2021. The state money will help to “transform the site of the worst anti-Semitic attack in U.S. history into a new place of hope, remembrance, and education,” the Wolf administration said in a prepared statement. The gold menorah in the foreground was presented to Wolf during the event. (Steve Mellon/Post-Gazette)Rabbi Barbara Symons, of Temple David, lights the menorah on the eighth night of Hanukkah, Sunday, Dec. 5, 2021, in the synagogue’s parking lot in Monroeville. The menorah was handmade by Randy Boswell, of Blackridge, a 30-year member of the congregation. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)Henry Figura, 5, of Shaler, plays with corn in a barn full of corn kernels during the Christmas on the Farm event at Freedom Farms, Sunday, Dec. 5, 2021, in Valencia. This was the fifth year Freedom Farms hosted this festival. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)David May, 14, left, of Swisshelm Park and Mollie Diaz, 13, of West Virginia watch their friend Maci Eads, 11, of Greenfield play a car racing game at the 12th annual Latkepalooza hosted by the Joint Jewish Education Program of Pittsburgh on Sunday, Dec. 5, 2021. Families from Beth Shalom and Rodef Shalom enjoyed games, Chanukah goodie bags and hot chocolate. (Clare Sheedy/Post-Gazette)Ravens running back Devonta Freeman reaches to spike the ball after scoring a touchdown against the Steelers in the second quarter, Sunday, Dec. 5, 2021, at Heinz Field. (Matt Freed/Post-Gazette)Steelers linebacker T.J. Watt points to his custom cleats in honor of UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh after sacking Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson in the fourth quarter, Sunday, Dec. 5, 2021, at Heinz Field. (Matt Freed/Post-Gazette)Steelers wide receiver Chase Claypool carries in front of Ravens cornerback Anthony Averett in the fourth quarter, Sunday, Dec. 5, 2021, at Heinz Field. (Matt Freed/Post-Gazette)Steelers tight end Pat Freiermuth pulls in a pass against Ravens defensive back Brandon Stephens in the second quarter, Sunday, Dec. 5, 2021, at Heinz Field. (Matt Freed/Post-Gazette)Kevin Fletcher, dressed as Santa Claus, left, of Cherry Hill Photography, sits on his sleigh with Sebastian Brown, 9, of Robinson during the sensory-friendly magic hours for children with special needs at the Mall at Robinson, 100 Robinson Centre Dr. in Robinson on Sunday, Dec. 5, 2021. The mall dimmed the Christmas tree lights and lowered the music playing over the speakers during magic hours. Kevin Fletcher also made sure to not shout his usual greeting of Ho! Ho! Ho! Merry Christmas! (Clare Sheedy/Post-Gazette)
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