CP file photo: Theo Schwarz A ghost bike memorial in 2015 marking the spot on Forbes Avenue where cyclist Susan Hicks was killed. On Oct. 23, 2015, Susan Hicks was riding her bike in Oakland the exact way Pennsylvania law required her to: as if she were driving a car. Back then, the configuration on Forbes Avenue was not friendly to cyclists, and Hicks, a 34-year-old University of Pittsburgh educator, pulled her bike behind an SUV and waited for a left-turn signal at a red light at Bigelow Boulevard. Then, a speeding driver slammed into a car behind her, causing a chain reaction that resulted in her death.
The overnight snow couldn’t stop Dunkin’ from opening its second Oakland store Monday.
It’s the 64th location owned by Heartland Restaurant Group and will employ 30 people. It becomes the second location in Oakland, joining the one at Forbes Avenue on the University of Pittsburgh campus.
The new store is located at 4560 Centre Ave.
“We’re excited to bring this new location to Oakland,” said Anthony Braun, COO and CFO of Heartland Restaurant Group, a Dunkin’ franchisee. “Although the pandemic has been tough for the economy globally, Dunkin’ has been growing in the region throughout 2020, and we plan to continue that growth through 2021.”
What makes Pittsburgh such an attractive movie location?
Tax credits for film companies are just the beginning, says Dawn Keezer, director of the Pittsburgh Film Office.
“We have such a diversity of locations. Pittsburgh can look like any place in the world,” she says. “The only things we don’t have are a beach and a desert.
“We do New York better than New York,” she says. “We’ve been San Francisco, Paris, Ukraine and Atlanta.”
There’s the beauty of the city viewed from the West End Overlook or Mt. Washington and downtown’s blend of modern and historical architecture, she says. Drive for an hour and you have mountains, small towns, farmland and other attractive settings.
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As 2020 comes to an end most people would struggle to have a positive to say about this year.
Here in the Rockhampton region we have had to deal with COVID, drought and then the water shortage in Mount Morgan and I could go on.
But there is a bright light in 2020 and that has been in our garden.
Throughout 2020 our plants seem to have looked lusher, flowers better, encountered less insects and grown faster.
Or am I looking at this year through rose coloured glasses?
So here are my top 10 performers of 2020 that were featured in the
Seldom is a subject such an obvious choice for story of the year.
But unlike 2001’s 9/11 or 2016’s election, the coronavirus story kept happening day after day after day. Like the virus itself, the story just wouldn’t stop.
It appears it will consume 2021 as well.
From reports of a “new illness” in China in January to the approval and distribution of vaccines in December, the tale of covid-19 is complex. It’s been an incredible, agonizing, frustrating, infuriating, daunting and deadly journey.
Coronavirus’ story actually began in December 2019, when 41 cases were first identified in Wuhan, China. Many researchers believe the virus originated in bats, although further studies are being conducted.