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.
Pitt running back Israel Abanikanda carries into the end zone for a touchdown against Miami in the first quarter, Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021, at Heinz Field. (Matt Freed/Post-Gazette)Miami running back Jaylan Knighton carries for a touchdown against Pitt in the first quarter, Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021, at Heinz Field. (Matt Freed/Post-Gazette)Pitt quarterback Kenny Pickett carries against Miami in the first quarter, Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021, at Heinz Field. (Matt Freed/Post-Gazette)Pitt running back Vincent Davis carries as he’s defended by Miami cornerback DJ Ivey Jr. in the second quarter, Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021, at Heinz Field. (Matt Freed/Post-Gazette)Miami wide receiver Key’Shawn Smith pulls in a pass for a touchdown against Pitt defensive back Erick Hallett II in the third quarter , Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021, at Heinz Field. (Matt Freed/Post-Gazette)Pitt head coach Pat Narduzzi yells to a referee as his team takes on Miami in the fourth quarter, Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021, at Heinz Field. (Matt Freed/Post-Gazette)Pitt tight end Gavin Bartholomew can’t pull in a pass in the end zone in front of Miami linebacker Keontra Smith in the fourth quarter, Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021, at Heinz Field. (Matt Freed/Post-Gazette)Pitt defensive back Judson Tallander II reaches to take down Miami wide receiver Brashard Smith in the third quarter, Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021, at Heinz Field. (Matt Freed/Post-Gazette)Miami quarterback Tyler Van Dyke scrambles past Pitt defensive lineman Habakkuk Baldonado in the fourth quarter, Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021, at Heinz Field. (Matt Freed/Post-Gazette)Miami quarterback Tyler Van Dyke gets a pass off in front of Pitt defensive lineman Habakkuk Baldonado in the fourth quarter, Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021, at Heinz Field. (Matt Freed/Post-Gazette)Sylvester Hanner dressed as a pig butcher at the Anderson Manor haunted mansion designed and hosted by Pittsburgh Ques on Friday, Oct. 29, 2021 in Manchester. All proceeds from the haunted mansion will be used to purchase holiday meals for families fighting hunger and food insecurity in the Greater Pittsburgh Area. (Clare Sheedy/ Post-Gazette)Brandon Jennings dressed as a biohazard killer leads a group into the Anderson Manor haunted mansion designed and hosted by Pittsburgh Ques on Friday, Oct. 29, 2021 in Manchester. All proceeds from the haunted mansion will be used to purchase holiday meals for families fighting hunger and food insecurity in the Greater Pittsburgh Area. (Clare Sheedy/ Post-Gazette)Christian Wahrenberger, Jr., 8, of McCandless, plays on a pile of pumpkins at Trax Farms in Finleyville, Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)Lynnieze Walker, of Mount Pleasant, poses for pictures with her 5-month-old daughter Aviyana on a tractor at Trax Farms in Finleyville, Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)Darrell Smith, of New York, shows his son Langston, 1, pumpkins at Trax Farms in Finleyville, Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021. They were in the area visiting family. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)Owen Rezmerski, 3, left, and his sister Nora Rezmerski, 5, watch the Mount Lebanon Halloween parade on Washington Road on Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021. in Mount Lebanon. (Clare Sheedy/ Post-Gazette)Families watch the Mount Lebanon Halloween parade on Washington Road on Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021. in Mount Lebanon. (Clare Sheedy/ Post-Gazette)Will Rosswog, 6, Iris Rosswog, 6, and Chloe Goeringer, 6, wave at Santa Claus at the Mount Lebanon Halloween parade on Washington Road on Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021. in Mount Lebanon. (Clare Sheedy/ Post-Gazette)Serra Catholic’s student section cheers during their team’s game against Steel Valley on Friday, Oct. 29, 2021, at William V. Campbell Athletic Field in Munhall. (Emily Matthews/Post-Gazette)Serra Catholic’s student section cheers during their team’s game against Steel Valley on Friday, Oct. 29, 2021, at William V. Campbell Athletic Field in Munhall. (Emily Matthews/Post-Gazette)Steel Valley’s Cruce Brookins holds on to the ball as he gets tackled by Serra Catholic on Friday, Oct. 29, 2021, at William V. Campbell Athletic Field in Munhall. (Emily Matthews/Post-Gazette)A pedestrian makes her way across the Boulevard of the Allies on a rainy morning, Friday, Oct. 29, 2021, in Pittsburgh. (Matt Freed/Post-Gazette)Dance music piped over headphones brings a smile to Lyric Adams, 21 months, as he held mom Amanda’s finger during Sensory Friendly Halloween at the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh on the North Side on Friday, Oct. 29, 2021. The event for visitors with sensory differences included accommodations such as limited attendance to allow for social distancing, modified sound and light levels and special sensory activities. (Steve Mellon/Post-Gazette)
Zero, a member fo the Pittsburgh Circus Arts Collaborative, demonstrates “contact juggling” with an acrylic ball during Sensory Friendly Halloween at the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh on the North Side on Friday, Oct. 29, 2021. At right, Julianna Joos, 6, of Mars, tries to mimic Zero’s moves. The event for visitors with sensory differences included accommodations such as limited attendance to allow for social distancing, modified sound and light levels and special sensory activities. (Steve Mellon/Post-Gazette)
People walk along the Three Rivers Heritage Trail by colorful foliage on a rainy morning on Friday, Oct. 29, 2021, Downtown. (Andrew Rush/Post-Gazette)
Asaf Zamir, center, Israel’s consul general, places a stone of remembrance for the victims on a table during a ceremony, Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021, in Schenley Park to commemorate three years since the attack on the Tree of Life synagogue where eleven people from three congregations were killed in 2018. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)
Audience members listen to a prayer during a ceremony, Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021, in Schenley Park to commemorate three years since the attack on the Tree of Life synagogue where eleven people from three congregations were killed a police officer was shot seven times but survived. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)Audience members comfort each other as they listen to a poem during a ceremony, Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021, in Schenley Park to commemorate three years since the attack on the Tree of Life synagogue where eleven people from three congregations were killed Oct. 27, 2018. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)Audience members look on during a ceremony, Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021, in Schenley Park in to commemorate three years since the attack on the Tree of Life synagogue. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)Asaf Zamir, center, Israel’s consul general listens during a ceremony, Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021, in Schenley Park to commemorate three years since the attack on the Tree of Life synagogue where eleven people from three congregations– Tree of Life/Or L’Simcha, New Light and Dor Hadash — were killed Oct. 27, 2018. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)Rabbi Jeffrey Myers and family members of victims and other survivors recite a poem during a ceremony, Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021, in Schenley Park to commemorate three years since the attack on the Tree of Life synagogue. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)Rabbi Jeffrey Myers stands among family members of victims and survivors as they prepare to take the stage to recite a poem during a ceremony, Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021, in Schenley Park to commemorate three years since the attack on the Tree of Life synagogue. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette via AP)Congregation members hug after representatives from each congregation impacted performed a reading during a ceremony, Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021, in Schenley Park in Oakland. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)Family of Daniel Stein comfort each other and become emotional during a ceremony, Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021, in Schenley Park to commemorate three years since the attack on the Tree of Life synagogue where eleven people from three congregations — Tree of Life/Or L’Simcha, New Light and Dor Hadash –were killed Oct. 27, 2018. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)Mayor Bill Peduto hugs a congregation member as County Executive Rich Fitzgerald looks on during a ceremony, Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021, in Schenley Park in Oakland, to commemorate three years since the attack on the Tree of Life synagogue where eleven people from three congregations — Tree of Life/Or L’Simcha, New Light and Dor Hadash –were killed Oct. 27, 2018. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)Lisa Withrow becomes emotional as she prepares to take the stage with two of her sons and Mt. Lebanon police officers to light a candle in honor of her late husband Jerrod Withrow, who died this summer of cancer and was among the first responders who responded to the Tree of Life shooting, during a ceremony, Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021, in Schenley Park to commemorate three years since the attack on the Tree of Life synagogue where eleven people from three congregations — Tree of Life/Or L’Simcha, New Light and Dor Hadash — were killed Oct. 27, 2018. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)Family members of shooting victim Melvin Wax embrace before lighting a candle in his memory during a ceremony, Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021, in Schenley Park to commemorate three years since the attack on the Tree of Life synagogue where eleven people from three congregations — Tree of Life/Or L’Simcha, New Light and Dor Hadash –were killed Oct. 27, 2018. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)Students from the Yeshiva Schools in Squirrel Hill place flowers outside the entrance to the Tree of Life synagogue Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021, in Squirrel Hill. (Post-Gazette)Michele Rosenthal, center, lights a candle in honor of her brothers, shooting victims Cecil and David Rosenthal during a ceremony, Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021, in Schenley Park to commemorate three years since the attack on the Tree of Life synagogue where eleven people from three congregations — Tree of Life/Or L’Simcha, New Light and Dor Hadash — were killed Oct. 27, 2018. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)Andrea Wedner, of Squirrel Hill. smells a flower that was placed on a fence just outside the entrance to Tree of Life synagogue Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021, on the anniversary of the Tree of Life massacre in 2018 (Post-Gazette)Paramedic Justin Sypolt, of Westwood, one of the first emergency responders to enter the Tree of Life synagogue after the shooting, and Dan Leger, of Squirrel Hill, who was wounded during the attack, embrace before a ceremony, Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021, in Schenley Park to commemorate three years since the attack on the Tree of Life synagogue where eleven people from three congregations — Tree of Life/Or L’Simcha, New Light and Dor Hadash — were killed Oct. 27, 2018. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)Attendees place stones of remembrance for the victims on a table during a ceremony, Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021, in Schenley Park to commemorate three years since the attack on the Tree of Life synagogue. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)Janie Montgomery, center, of Rimersburg, brushes off the neck of Jeff Wiles, center front, of Brookvale, after cutting his hair at her barbershop, Craig’s Barber Place, on Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021, in Clarion. Montgomery says she’s been barbering long enough to see multiple generations of some families come to get clipped as clients grow up and bring their children. When asked what she’s learned in all those years in her profession, Montgomery chuckles, “A lot about people, more than we need to know.” Behind her, fellow barber Nora Hergenroeder of Callensburg prepares for her next customer. (Stephanie Strasburg/Post-Gazette)
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