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In this newsletter: More than 4,000 regional job openings are expected in the remediation field by 2027, a number driven by Allegheny County’s high density of brownfield sites.

Also, the Wilkinsburg Government Study Commission voted unanimously to draft a home rule charter for the borough, kicking off a year-long process that will culminate with voters having the final say at the polls.

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Working the brownfields: Postindustrial sites turn into opportunities for local employment and environmental restoration

In 2021, Congress passed the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which allocated an unprecedented $1.5 billion to brownfield-related programs nationwide.

Two local recipients — social services agency Auberle and Landforce, which focuses on land stewardship and workforce development — each received $500,000 in 2022 to train a new generation of professionals who will work to cleanse the region’s industrial messes.

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Film Pittsburgh’s ReelAbilities Pittsburgh film festival will run Sept. 7–13 at the Pittsburgh Playhouse with some films streaming online. ReelAbilities’ films and events celebrate the lives and experiences of people living with disabilities and show how we are all more alike than we are different. For more information, visit FilmPittsburgh.org.

NOT TO MISS

Wilkinsburg moves a step closer to home rule. What’s next?

More than coffee: Pennsylvania Women Work mentorship program brewing brighter career futures

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Melanie Linn Gutowski writes in a first-person essay that she is one of 14 granddaughters in her family. Typically for Christmas, her grandmother would buy one type of present for the younger girls and another for the older ones. But Christmas 1993 was different: Each instead unwrapped Italian Barbie.
As the region’s major universities look to transform an aging mill site into a pioneering biotech and robotics center, some Hazelwood residents are unaware of what’s happening on the site, or feel they’ve been left out of the conversation and may not be served by the development.

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Why the famed Appalachian Trail keeps getting longer — and harder

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