The week in photos: Feb. 8, 2025

Allegheny County Controller Corey O’Connor and City of Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey debate during the 14th Ward Independent Democratic Club’s mayoral candidate discussion and debate at Chatham University’s Eddy Theatre in Squirrel Hill Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025. (Sebastian Foltz/Post-Gazette)

The Brunton Dairy in Aliquippa is back in action after the seven-generation, family-run dairy was shut down by a fire in late 2023. This holstein heads to the stall to eat while getting milked in a new, automated milking machine on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025. (Lucy Schaly/Post-Gazette)

Jo Ann Jankoski, Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies at Penn State Fayette, the Eberly Campus, works in her office in the Lemont Furnace campus on Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025. (Lucy Schaly/Post-Gazette)

City of Pittsburgh canine officers follow their dog past a group of protestors lining the wall in front of the William S. Moorhead Federal Building Downtown on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025. (Lucy Schaly/Post-Gazette)

An old church at Progress Street and the approach to the David McCullough Bridge on the North Side caught fire Saturday. No injuries were reported due to the fire in the building, which had been a Catholic church for more than a century. (Sarah Qu/Post-Gazette)

Lauren Davis, an Opera singer, is greeted at an event kicking off Black History Month by showcasing the National Negro Opera Company, the nation’s first permanent African American opera company, in the City-County Building’s Grand Lobby on Monday, Feb. 3, 2025. (Justin Guido/for the Post-Gazette)

Vice President J.D. Vance speaks during a press conference at the East Palestine Fire Station in East Palestine, Ohio on Monday, Feb. 3, 2025. (Sebastian Foltz/Post-Gazette)

Westwood Elementary School student Noah Wilson, 7, center, scoops ingredients to make fruit and granola smoothie bowls with his classmates and vegan chef Brandi O. Allen of We Cook We Eat during her after school cooking program at Westwood Elementary School Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025 in Westwood. (Sebastian Foltz/Post-Gazette)

Piano technician Peter Stumpf stands in his garage/workshop in Allentown on Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024. (Lucy Schaly/Post-Gazette)

Transplant surgeon Dr. Tadahiro Uemura describes the surgery process involving liver transplant and heart surgery patient David Johnson, left, during an interview at Allegheny General Hospital on the North Side on Friday, Jan. 31, 2025. (Sebastian Foltz/Post-Gazette)

Steve Regal and his daughter Gabriella Regal, 4, ice skate on the pond in Allegheny Commons Park on the North Side on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025. (Sebastian Foltz/Post-Gazette)