By Taylor Brown tbrown@yourmvi.com Monessen School Board will vote on the 2019-20 operating budget for the Westmoreland Intermediate Unit next week. The proposed spending plan of $6,044,170 is about 1...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com The Allegheny Land Trust is again encouraging nature enthusiasts who live in the Mon Valley to lace up their boots, get outside and lend a hand in helping improve the ...

By Taylor Brown tbrown@yourmvi.com Two Mon Valley high schools will be part of a regional science competition today. The Southwestern Pennsylvania Regional Science Olympiad will be held in the Convoca...

By Taylor Brown tbrown@yourmvi.com A Belle Vernon business owner is hoping to put the Mon Valley on the map as a go-to tourist destination.   Melanie Stringhill Paterson, owner of the Good Ol’ Days Ho...

William Gaylord DeiCas, 71, of Charleroi passed away Friday, March 1, 2019. He was born March 3, 1947, in North Charleroi, the son of the late William Gaylord and Sarah Mouyard DeiCas. Bill graduated ...

Esther Costas Greco, beloved wife, loving mother, and treasured “Yiayia”, 88, of Donora, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, March 4, 2019 at home. She was born in Donora on May 18, 1930, daughter to t...

Dorothy Jean Richardson, 76, of Bentleyville, formerly of New Eagle, was taken into our Lord’s loving embrace Saturday, March 2, 2019. She was born Nov. 15, 1942, in East Monongahela and was the daugh...

David R. “Shep” Shepler, 70, of Perryopolis, Jefferson Township, passed away Tuesday, March 5, 2019, after a four-year courageous battle with pancreatic cancer in his home surrounded by his loving fam...

By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com Last season, the Ringgold hockey team was derailed in the semifinals, a game short of playing for the PIHL D2 championship. This season, the Rams are looking to av...

By the Mon Valley Independent The PIAA state basketball playoffs kick off this weekend.   Hopefully most of our teams like to travel. It all kicks off Friday as the Monessen boys (15-9), the fourth-pl...

By Jason Black For the MV Independent On Monday afternoon, Thayne Lawrence was shown a copy of the upcoming state championship wrestling bracket for the Class 2A 160-pound weight class. Lawrence took ...

By JEFF OLIVER For the MV Independent Frazier has a new head football coach and he is no stranger to the district or most of the players on the football team. Greg Boggs was hired last week by a 6-3 v...

By Taylor Brown tbrown@yourmvi.com Monongahela Police are searching for the driver of a vehicle that crashed into a 7-Eleven Monday morning.   Owner Rhonda Miller-Rachocki said a white jeep, driven by...

By Taylor Brown tbrown@yourmvi.com A hillside in Forward Township won’t stop moving. Bunola River Road is closed once again, just three days after it was re-opened following a Feb. 13 landslide.   Mor...

By JEFF OLIVER For the MV Independent Larry Covino has only lived in Donora a short time, having moved into the community in late November 2018. But, when you talk to the Boston, Mass., native, he can...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com A local police chief was honored Monday during the annual Friends of Scouting breakfast. Carroll Township police Chief Paul Brand received the 2019 Mon Valley Dis...

By Kaylie Moore kmoore@yourmvi.com Rostraver Township residents will soon experience changes to their garbage collection statements.   Township planner Tamira M. Spedaliere said Monday that in 2019, r...

William Gaylord DeiCas, 71, passed away on Friday, March 1, 2019. A complete obituary and funeral arrangements will appear in Wednesday’s edition of the Mon Valley Independent . Arrangements were entr...

Dr. Thomas P. Wehrle, 65, of Elizabeth Township, left this earthly world on March 4, 2019, surrounded by family, love and laughter. Born in Punxsutawney, Tom will join his loving parents, Paul E. and ...

Rae Dawn Rankin Leyda went to be with the Lord at 2:55 a.m. on Sunday, March 3, 2019, at Monongahela Valley Hospital. She was born in Belle Vernon, a daughter of the late Paul C. Ran-kin and Florence ...