🍇 Stock up on Yinzer Pop 🍊

💸 A Preview of PPS’s 2025 Budget

Pittsburgh Public Schools officials are working on a $735.9 million budget proposal — a 2.64% increase from 2024’s budget — but it doesn’t account for possible school closures. The budget could shrink if schools and staff are cut. Consultants will present their final closure recommendations on Tuesday, but the school board hasn’t yet set a date to vote on the plan. [90.5 WESA]

• 🎒Here’s why 16 public schools might close. [🎧 City Cast Pittsburgh]

📣 Western Psych Nurses Authorize Strike

Nurses at UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital unanimously voted to authorize a strike, citing concerns about low staffing, high turnover, and closed beds. The nurse’s union has been negotiating a contract with UPMC since August; their previous contract expired on September 30. [Union Progress]

🚗 New Women-Only Rideshare Company

The members-only Periwinkle Ladies Travel Club aims to make women feel safer while ridesharing. The company, launching Oct. 12, covers a 15-mile radius around Point State Park. [KDKA]

⚾ Savannah Bananas Are Burgh-Bound

The entertaining independent baseball team Savannah Bananas are set to stop at PNC Park Aug. 29 and 30 of next year. [Pittsburgh Magazine]

• 🍌 Sign up now to enter a lottery to purchase tickets.

We love to update yinz on the yummiest new bites and bevs in the Burgh! Check out what caught our eye this week 🤤

☕ Spigolo

This coffee shop brings fresh brews and baked goods to the Edgewood/Swissvale corridor. Order a latte made with Redhawk coffee and a treat by Wild Rise Bakery, then soak in the sunshine on the chic checkered patio.

🥖 Dulce Amor Latino Bakery

Find Mexican pastries at this new Monroeville bakery, meaning “sweet love” in Spanish. Enjoy a coffee and pan dulce (sweet bread) in the cafe lounge, or make a special cake order to-go.

🍇 Yinzer Pop

Yinzer Brands has a new line of bottled Yinzer Pop at Grandpa Joe’s Candy Shop: Allegheny River Water (cola), Orange Belt (orange), Blawnox Boilermaker (root beer), and Sahside Sangria (grape). Find them in the Strip, Mt. Lebanon, and Canonsburg.

🪦 Cocktails from the Crypt

Get in the spooky spirit with a drink from this Halloween pop-up bar in Downtown. It officially opens today and runs Wednesdays through Sundays all October. Try the Vampire Ballerina, a cotton candy pink drink with teeth!