The week in photos: Feb. 15, 2025

Malphine Fogel, 95, left, sits on a couch with Sasha Phillips, Counsel with Dentons Cohen & Grigsby, as the two hug during a press conference covering Ms. Fogul’s son, Marc Fogel, who was a Russian detainee for three and a half years and is now on his way home on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025, in Butler. (Benjamin B. Braun/Post-Gazette)

Artist Tom Mosser works on portraits in his Etna studio on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. He made these in honor of Marc Fogel, who was newly released from Russia. Tom said he painted this from a photo of Marc from the first days of his imprisonment. Here, he paints red around Marc’s head. (Lucy Schaly/Post-Gazette)

Students walk on the Duquesne University campus Uptown on Friday, Feb. 14, 2025. (Lucy Schaly/Post-Gazette)

Katie Stanley, an Interpretive Naturalist with Allegheny County Parks, instructs Avery Lauer, 5, of McCandless, how to tap a tree for syrup at the Latodami Nature Center on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025, in Wexford. Ms. Stanley taught a class about making maple syrup as part of the Young Nature Explorers program. (Benjamin B. Braun/Post-Gazette)

Cold Friends Kitchen’s Remington Johnson, left, Joshua DeFazio, middle, and Gabriel Knecht, co-owner, right, stand inside New Amsterdam’s kitchen on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025, in Lawrenceville. (Benjamin B. Braun/Post-Gazette)

Jane Shirley, 6, left, of Mount Lebanon points out a “tiger” on the prowl from the safety of her “wolf den” with fellow wolf Gretchen Gerhard, 4, of East Liberty, in the ‘I Am Wild’ exhibit at the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh on the North Side on Monday, Feb. 10, 2025. The exhibit is inspired by artist Charley Harper and the ‘I Am Wild’ series of children’s books. (Sebastian Foltz/Post-Gazette)

Brooke Ripper cuddles with a brand new kitten she adopted at her Canonsburg home on Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025. Brooke, who has been legally blind since age 1, was diagnosed with severe seizures in 2022. After three brain surgeries, she is now seizure-free and wants to return to college, where she had a 4.0 when the seizures began. This is a health feature on her and her rare surgery, which only 13 other people in the world have undergone. (Post-Gazette)

A runner on the Eliza Furnace Trail, where clean up has begun along the former encampments, on Monday, Feb. 10, 2025. During a press conference along the Eliza Furnace Trail, county and city officials provided an update on the significant reduction of encampments in Pittsburgh, successful winter shelter operation, and the 500 in 500 initiative. (Justin Guido/For the Post-Gazette)

Carnegie Museum of Natural History Associate Conservator Mostafa Sherif works on restoring a 4,000-year-old ancient Egyptian Dahshur boat in the museum’s The Stories We Keep exhibition in the third floor R.P. Simmons Family Gallery in Oakland on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. (Sebastian Foltz/Post-Gazette)

Actor Noah Wyle of the Pittsburgh-based medical show “The Pitt” listens to Dr. Bobby Kapur, System Chair for AHN Emergency Medicine Institute, talk about the show and how it compares to real-life emergency care units during an interview with the Post-Gazette at Allegheny General Hospital on the North Side on Monday, Feb. 10, 2025. (Sebastian Foltz/Post-Gazette)

Advanced EMT graduate Abbey Gwynn shakes hands after receiving her certificate during the Pittsburgh Bureau of EMS Celebrate Freedom House EMT Graduation and Recognize Advanced EMT Students at Council Chambers, City-County Building in Downtown Pittsburgh on Friday, Feb. 14, 2025. (Justin Guido/For the Post-Gazette)

Iragi Devine, left, who attends Obama, and Madison Chavis, who attends Allderdice, listen to a video in an SEM College Seminar class on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025, at Milton Building on CCAC’s campus on the Northside. The BNY Early College Program allows high schoolers in Allegheny County, including those from Pittsburgh Public, to take college-level classes at CCAC for free. They can study one of three professional tracks: Accounting, Business, or Computer Information Technology. (Justin Guido/For the Post-Gazette)

5A rallygoer runs under a large Climate Can’t Wait flag during the Climate Can’t-Wait rally in Oakland on Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025. (Justin Guido/For the Post-Gazette)

Tom and Erin Grainy of the South Side bundle up to walk their dog Ringo along the Allegheny Heritage Trail by Southside Works on Sunday, Feb. 9, 2025. The couple says they walk every day, rain or shine. Temperatures in the Pittsburgh area are expected to stay in the 30s most of the week, potentially reaching 40 degrees Thursday and Saturday. (Sebastian Foltz/Post-Gazette)

A goose shakes dry after a bath in a hole in the ice at Allegheny Commons Park on the North Side on Monday, Feb. 10, 2025. (Sebastian Foltz/Post-Gazette)