By staff and wire reports Virtual school. Shuttered businesses. Mask mandates. “Stay calm, stay home and stay safe.” Like the rest of the globe, the Mon Valley and the rest of Pennsylvania struggled m...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com A new year is upon us, and a few Mon Valley lawmakers say they’re aware 2020 was a rough year for Pennsylvanians. Small businesses, families and individuals, municipal...

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com Monongahela is getting a small sampling of Asian art thanks to the city’s Main Street Program. The program’s Fine Art Gallery, located at 221 W. Main St., cu...

By Christine Haines chaines@yourmvi.com Rostraver Township’s fire departments received a bit of financial security in the 2021 budget, with the commissioners adopting a 3-mill fire tax for the first t...

By Christine Haines chaines@yourmvi.com Elizabeth Borough Council Wednesday adopted a $1.08 million budget with a 1.5 mill property tax increase. The new real estate tax rate will be 10 mills, up from...

By Christine Haines chaines@yourmvi.com The Forward Township Supervisors met in special session Wednesday to adopt the 2021 budget. The $1.5 million spending plan was adopted unanimously with no incre...

Frank Delia, 102, of Belle Vernon, passed away on Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2020, in Country Care Manor. A son of the late Joseph and Filomenia DeFazio Delia, he was born in Mt. Sterling, Pa. on Jan. 1, 191...

Rita Yauch, 84, of McKeesport, died Dec. 25, 2020. She was born in McKeesport on Jan. 1, 1936, and was the daughter of the late Joseph William and Anna Elizabeth Marish Kapis. She was a homemaker and ...

Lincoln Richard Tidwell, age 2, passed away on Monday, Dec. 21, 2020, at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, Texas. Lincoln was born on Dec. 27, 2017, in Fort Worth, Texas, to parents Amanda and Jus...

John Bartina, 88, of Monongahela, died Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2020, at Monongahela Valley Hospital in Carroll Township. He was born July 6, 1932, in Donora the son of the late Nick and Frances Verbanich ...

Michael Veloshin, 90, of Perryopolis passed away on Friday, Dec. 25, 2020, at Hallsworth House in Monessen, where he was residing. He was born on Oct. 14, 1930, in Perryopolis. He was the son of the l...

Nick Sutovich Jr. died Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020. Son of the late Nick and Zella Kachmarik Sutovich Sr.; beloved husband of 58 years to “Love of my life,” Wilma Yewusiak Sutovich, whom he would tell eve...

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com For many children throughout the Mon Valley, Santa Claus has just left the building. After a 31-year tenure as coordinator for the Mon Valley Leathernecks’ T...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com After a nine-day search, the man accused of shooting a McKeesport police officer is in custody. In a release issued just before 7 p.m. Tuesday, Allegheny County police...

Walt Geroda of Rostraver Township takes advantage of Tuesday’s sunny weather to clean his vehicle at Val’s Car Wash in Rostraver Township.

By Christine Haines chaines@yourmvi.com The 2020-21 school year has been a learning experience for administrators in area school districts. With two grading periods completed, school officials are ass...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Taxpayers in Monessen won’t see a rate hike in 2021 as council approved a budget that holds the line on property taxes. The 2021 budget maintains the 2020 millage...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com The COVID-19 pandemic has forced families, businesses and nonprofit organizations to adapt. But for the Charleroi Area Harvest Bounty Program, it has taught voluntee...

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com Monongahela council passed its 2021 budget, which doesn’t include a tax increase for residents, Tuesday morning. The real estate millage rate for 2021 will h...

By Jose Negron jnegron@yourmvi.com There weren’t many defensive players in the WPIAL who were as valuable to their team as Cole Weightman was to Belle Vernon Area this season.   The junior linebacker ...