Westmoreland County Year in Pictures

Donna Costelnock of Hempfield holds her dog, Jackson, up to the window for resident Bob Vertancik to see during the fifth annual Halloween Doggy Walk at Hempfield Manor on Oct. 10. The walk was held outside due to coronivirus visitation restrictions at nursing homes.

Hundreds of vehicles lined up for the Farmers to Families food distribution program conducted by the Westmoreland County Food Bank and Turner’s Dairy on July 20 at the Westmoreland County Fairgrounds.

A student looks out a bus window on the first day of school at Penn-Trafford School District’s McCullough Elementary on Aug. 27. Many schools delayed starting during the coronavius pandemic, and most were eventally forced to hold virtual classes.

President Donald Trump pumps a fist as Air Force One is seen behind him at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport in Unity on Sept. 3. Trump made several visits to the Keystone State during the campaign.

A pedestrian walks past Lapels, A Fine Men’s Clothier, on South Pennsylvania Avenue in Greensburg on March 23. Downtown streets were uncharacteristically quiet after Gov. Tom Wolf ordered non-life-sustaining businesses to close.

Pharmacist Nichole Sisson fills a syringe with Pfizer’s covid-19 vaccine at Excela Health Westmoreland Hospital in Greensburg on Dec. 18.

Chanelle Derry, of Greensburg, chants protest songs during a peaceful Black Lives Matter march in Jeannette on July 16.

A demonstrator at a Black Lives Matter rally outside the Westmoreland County Courthouse in Greensburg on Aug. 20.

EMT Christian Garris, left, prepare new supplies as paramedic Johnathan Jobe, background, uses a decontamination fogger inside an ambulance on Dec. 10 at Mutual Aid Ambulance Service in Greensburg.

Bob Price of Greensburg disinfects a Greensburg Salem Middle School classroom on June 16 during the pandemic.

Lilly Black, front, performs with other Westmoreland Ballet dancers on the Ligonier Diamond on Sept. 27. Coronavirus restrictions forced the ballert to film their performance of The Nutcracker.

Lorraine Free of O’Hara works with a group of plein air painters Aug. 19 in a sunflower field in Crabtree. The group usually meets once a year at a scenic location in Westmoreland or Allegheny counties, and most are studio art students of Doreen Currie of Unity, who teaches at both the Latrobe Art Center and Greensburg Art Center.

Raymond Hershberger, 13, left, watches the rebuilding of the LeFevre House by his father’s company, Hershberger Contracting, on Thursday, May 28 at Historic Hanna’s Town. The donated structure was disassembled from its former site in Hempfield, moved seven miles and reassembled. It now stands as part of the restored village of the county seat in the 1770s.

The Norwin class of 2020 held a masked and socially distanced graduation on Friday, June 26 at Knights Stadium.

Bob Campolongo, of Morgantown, W.Va., carries balloons for the 103rd birthday of his mother Catherine Campolongo, background, at her Alwine Avenue home in Greensburg on Sept. 16. The family surprised her with a drive-by celebration in the midst of coronavirus restrictions.

Patient Jim Toth, 89, of Everson, hugs his daughter, Cathy Majka, of North Huntingdon, after being discharged at Excela Health Frick Hospital in Mt. Pleasant on April 22. Toth was hospitalized for 30 days as he was treated for covid-19.

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks at a union training center in New Alexandria on Sept. 30. Biden, who visited Pennsylvania several times during the presidential campaign, held small, socially distanced events, while President Trump hosted thousands of supporters at large-scale gatherings.