By Jose Negron jnegron@yourmvi.com It took an extra four minutes of play, but the Grebb League All-Stars fell short in their attempt to topple the Grant Street Park Basketball League All-Stars in Unio...

By Jeff Oliver For the MV Independent The week that most high school football players dread gets under way today: heat acclimation conditioning. It’s a week of work teams put in without hitting, as ma...

Bertha M. Brooks Sowers, 89, of Donora, passed away on Saturday, Aug. 3, 2019, in Havencrest Nursing Center, Monongahela. Born in Rostraver Township on Sept. 19, 1929, she was a daughter of the late J...

By Jose Negron jnegron@yourmvi.com Bragging rights will be up for grabs tonight when the all-stars from the J. Budd Grebb Memorial Summer Basketball League’s boys division head to Uniontown to face of...

By the Mon Valley Independent Five members of the Thunderbird Powerlifting team placed first at the WNPF Drug Free National Powerlifting Championships in Youngstown, Ohio on July 28.   Joey Lipscomb w...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com The spray park at Round Hill Park in Elizabeth Township will be closed through at least Monday due to high levels of bacteria. The announcement was made Friday afterno...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Several development grants that will benefit the Mon Valley have been announced by State Sens. Jim Brewster, D-McKeesport, and Camera Bartolotta, R-Carroll Township. T...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com For the first time in more than 20 years, the Tri State Antique Fire Engine Association fire truck muster is headed back to the Mon Valley shores of the Monongahela Ri...

By Megan Tomasic Urgent care services are now offered to veterans through Veteran Affairs urgent care clinics. The program, which started June 6, offers services to those suffering from the flu, minor...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Friday’s Buffalo Rose concert, which was part of the McKeesport Riverfront Concert Series was canceled due to pop-up thunderstorms and a flash flood warning in Alleghe...

Joanne Barber, 77, of Twilight Hollow, passed away peacefully at home on Aug. 1, 2019. She was born on Aug. 22, 1941, the daughter of the late Floyd and Alberta Traeger Patton. Joanne graduated from M...

Katherine R. Hatalowich, 91, of Perryopolis, passed away on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019. A daughter of the late John and Anna Kohut Mohus, she was born in Monessen on Jan. 3, 1928. A lifelong resident of P...

John A. Police Jr., 58, of Fayette City, formerly of Monongahela, died Saturday, July 20, 2019, in Monongahela-Valley Hospital. Born Dec. 18, 1960, in Washington, he was the son of the late John Sr. a...

Gary Lee Howell Sr., 77, of Scott Township, Pa., passed away in his home on July 31, 2019. Gary was born March 22, 1942, in Elizabeth, to Philip and Phyllis (née Lord) Howell. Gary is survived by his ...

Marian P. Campitella, 84, of Nottingham Township, died Wednesday, July 31, 2019, at the Donnell House in Washington. She was born March 5, 1935, in New Kensington, daughter of the late John and Mary R...

Joan DiSora Kopcak, 90, of Monongahela, died on Wednesday, July 31, 2019, in UPMC Presbyterian Hospital, Pittsburgh, surrounded by her family. Born March 15, 1929, in Monongahela, she was the daughter...

James L. Koschak, 70, of Hutchinson, died Saturday, July 27, 2019, in Hempfield Manor, Greensburg. He was born Aug. 16, 1948, in Mount Pleasant, a son of the late James and Mary Consavage Koschak. Jam...

Dr. Ann “Dolly” Marchok who was born in Brownsville on May 17, 1936, raised in Glassport and lived in Oak ridge, Tenn., since 1977, passed away peacefully at home on July 13, 2019. Ann came to Oak Rid...

By EMILY BENNETT ebennett@yourmvi.com Tracie Sivak said her family doesn’t give each other candles for Christmas. They give kidneys. “We joke all the time about asking people what their blood type is,...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com There are new jobs coming to the Mid-Mon Valley. Gov. Tom Wolf on Thursday announced that TechnipFMC will expand its operations by establishing a new facility in Speer...