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By Mon Valley Independent 
January 25, 2020
By Renatta Signorini Trib Total Media Poll workers are needed in Monessen for the March 17 special election for state representative and in other communities for the April primary election. The Westmo...
BVA’s upset bid falls just short
By Mon Valley Independent 
January 25, 2020
By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com After a 27-point beating at the hands of Uniontown Jan. 3, the Belle Vernon Area boys basketball team wanted nothing more than their next shot at the Red Raiders. ...
Peccon hits 1,000 as Rams roll over Raiders
By Mon Valley Independent 
January 24, 2020
By Adam Brewer MVI Sports To say Friday night was busy and strange for the Ringgold boys basketball team would be an understatement. It started early when the team’s game against Waynesburg Central wa...
First-place Bishop Canevin survives late Greyhounds’ rally
By Mon Valley Independent 
January 24, 2020
By Jose negron jnegron@yourmvi.com Dan Bosnic doesn’t look back on Friday night’s matchup against Bishop Canevin and think about how it ended.   Instead, the second-year Monessen coach is concerned wi...
Epps brothers outplay Polak in Gladiators’ win
By Mon Valley Independent 
January 24, 2020
By Dean Dellamalva Jr. MVI Sports The South Allegheny boys basketball team has been quite the story this season.   Despite boasting a lineup without the presence of a senior, the Gladiators have gone ...
Obituaries
By obits 
January 24, 2020
Justina E. Bruchwalski Baron, 72, of Rostraver Township, went with the angels on Jan. 24, 2020. She was born in Pittsburgh to the late Bernard and Justina Walter Bruchwalski. Justina was a member of S...
Rose Margaret Disclafani – Mechanicsville, Md.
Obituaries
By obits 
January 24, 2020
Rose Margaret Disclafani, 90, of Mechanicsville, Md., passed away peacefully at her home on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020, surrounded by her loving family. Rose was born on Feb. 23, 1929, in Monessen, to the...
Robert H. “Bob” Dragan – Monessen
Obituaries
By obits 
January 24, 2020
Robert H. “Bob” Dragan, 82, of Monessen, died Friday, Jan. 24, 2020, at his home. He was born on Dec. 26, 1937, in Monessen, the son of the late Henry and Anne Adams Dragan. Bob was a 1955 graduate of...
Philomena Leonard – Donora
Obituaries
By obits 
January 24, 2020
Philomena Leonard, 90, of Donora, died Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020, at South Hills Rehabilitation and Wellness Center in Canonsburg. She was a member of the St. Andrew the Apostle Parish Donora Campus. Sh...
Obituaries
By obits 
January 24, 2020
The granddaughters of Julia Agnes Paholski of Belle Vernon are so sad to announce that our “Grammy” was called to God early in the morning of Jan. 23, 2020.  She was 101 years old. Gram died in her ho...
Shirley A. Hermann Patch – Ruffsdale
Obituaries
By obits 
January 24, 2020
Shirley A. (née Hermann) Patch, 78, of Ruffsdale, died Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2020, peacefully at her home with her husband of 55 years by her side. She was born in Donora on Jan. 29, 1941, daughter of t...
Obituaries
By obits 
January 24, 2020
Eleanor Marie Zettle, 87, of Gibsonia, formerly of Monongahela, died Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020, in St. Barnabas Nursing Home, Gibsonia. She was born Jan. 27, 1932 in Monongahela, the daughter of Frank a...
Halftime shootout
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By Mon Valley Independent 
January 24, 2020
Mike Darnay / For the Mon Valley Independent Eleven-year-old Molly Pugh takes a shot at halftime of Thursday’s Thomas Jefferson girls basketball game. Children were allowed to shoot for a $1 donation ...
Gowns galore at Glitter & Gold Gala
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By Mon Valley Independent 
January 24, 2020
By EMILY BENNETT DILULLO ebennett@yourmvi.com Best friends, dedicated aunts, moms and disgruntled little brothers accompanied local high school ladies at Jazzy Boutique’s third annual Glitter and Gold...
GOP chooses Davanzo for 58th special election
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By Mon Valley Independent 
January 24, 2020
By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com The Westmoreland County Republican Party selected its candidate Thursday for the upcoming special election to fill the vacant seat in the 58th Legislative Distr...
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By Mon Valley Independent 
January 24, 2020
By EMILY BENNETT DILULLO and TAYLOR BROWN ebennett@yourmvi.com, tbrown@yourmvi.com Several local fire departments will benefit from annual state funding again this year. Fire departments throughout th...
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By Mon Valley Independent 
January 24, 2020
By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com A dodgeball game usually invokes memories of gym class. But a friendly, night-time game of dodgeball will help students and teachers in the West Jefferson Hi...
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By Mon Valley Independent 
January 24, 2020
For the MVI The Mid Mon Valley Cultural Trust is partnering with the State Theatre Center for the Arts in Uniontown to bring the five Oscar-nominated short films in both the live action and animation ...
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By Mon Valley Independent 
January 24, 2020
By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com A Monongahela couple is in the Washington County jail after they allegedly got into a booze-fueled brawl that ended with the wife trying to rip off her husba...
TJ falls on controversial buzzer beater
By Mon Valley Independent 
January 24, 2020
By Jose Negron jnegron@yourmvi.com Every possession was bound to matter when Thomas Jefferson and Chartiers Valley met Thursday night.   TJ head coach Lisa Fairman and CV coach Tim McConnell were both...