Hello and good morning! Rachel Tasker here with your fresh copy of the Pittsburgh Daily. If your Tuesday morning is already off to the races, here’s a great excuse to take a 5-minute break and get caught up all the local happenings you should know about.


A mix of clouds and sun, with temps cooling down. High: 69 Low: 56.


Here are the top stories in Pittsburgh today:

1) Pittsburgh Regional Transit will host a public meeting today to discuss their plans for new East Busway stations in Wilkinsburg and Brushton. The agenda consists of the consideration to move the Wilkinsburg station closer to the business district, as well as creating a new station a few blocks away at Brushton Avenue in Homewood. In Wilkinsburg, planners propose moving the station from the middle of the park-and-ride site near North Avenue closer to the borough’s business district between Penn and Wallace

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Sarah Ramberg of Belmont, NC, writes a blog Sadie Seasongoods, encouraging people to upcycle and shop at second-hand stores.

Sarah Ramberg of Belmont, NC, writes a blog Sadie Seasongoods, encouraging people to upcycle and shop at second-hand stores.

Courtesy of Sarah Ramberg

Sarah Ramberg of Belmont, just west of Charlotte, makes her living from thrifting, or as she calls it “junkin’.”

Known as Sadie Seasongoods in her blog, Ramberg offers tips and tricks encouraging people to upcycle and shop at second-hand stores. Her motto is “living a firsthand life using secondhand things.”

“Thrifting is literally my livelihood,” she said.

A Chicago native, Ramberg moved from Florida to Greenville, SC, 11 years ago when her career as a marine biologist led her to work for an environmental engineering company. “It was very technical and I needed a creative outlet,” she said. She started blogging about crafts she’d create from her finds at thrift stores.

When she was laid off five years ago, Ramberg turned her hobby into

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