Monessen forfeits Friday’s game with Carmichaels
By Jeremy Sellew 
October 7, 2020
By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com Low numbers have cost Monessen with three games left to play this season. The district announced Wednesday that the Greyhounds will forfeit Friday’s scheduled game...
Hang 10! Cougars surf past Raiders
By Mon Valley Independent 
October 6, 2020
By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com After what head coach Jon Ducoli called “a slow start” Tuesday, the Charleroi boys soccer team kicked things into high gear and blasted visiting Waynesburg Central...
Leopards get contributions throughout lineup in 8-1 win
By Mon Valley Independent 
October 6, 2020
By DEAN DELLAMALVA JR. MVI Sports The Belle Vernon Area boys soccer team scored five goals on rebounds and got a hat trick from Dylan Rathway in an 8-1 victory over Greensburg Salem in Section 3-3A Tu...
Warriors shut out Wildcats
By Mon Valley Independent 
October 6, 2020
By jose negron jnegron@yourmvi.com During a halftime meeting with his team Tuesday, Elizabeth Forward head coach Doug Finke preached the importance of movement off the ball.   He noticed East Alleghen...
Suter mausoleum gets new life
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By Mon Valley Independent 
October 6, 2020
By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com The structure that has housed the remains of Sutersville’s founder for 116 years will soon get a facelift. Entombed with his wife and three other people in W...
Gov. Wolf eases crowd limits with sliding scale
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By Mon Valley Independent 
October 6, 2020
By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Rules concerning crowd size restrictions are changing again. On Tuesday, Gov. Tom Wolf and Department of Health Secretary Dr. Rachel Levine announced an amendment to...
LSA records fight continues in court
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October 6, 2020
By Christine Haines chaines@yourmvi.com Neither state Rep. Bud Cook, R-West Pike Run Township, nor the Washington County Redevelopment Authority is backing down when it comes to an open records reques...
Saturday car show to benefit Bag Brigade
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By Mon Valley Independent 
October 6, 2020
By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com The second annual Belle Vernon Starbucks Car Show is moving full steam ahead.   Organizer Katie Chermely said last year’s event, which benefits the Bag Brigade, was ...
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By Mon Valley Independent 
October 6, 2020
By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com A McKeesport police detective involved in a motorcycle accident on Long Run Road (state Route 48) near the White Oak/McKeesport border Monday is recovering from seriou...
Noreen Elizabeth White Fazzini –  Donora
Obituaries
By obits 
October 6, 2020
Noreen Elizabeth White Fazzini, 93, of Donora, peacefully passed away on to eternal glory with the Lord on Friday, Oct. 2, 2020, at Monongahela Valley Hospital. She was born in Donora on June 18, 1927...
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By obits 
October 6, 2020
Mary Ann Hefner, 77, of Rostraver Township, died Monday, Oct. 5, 2020. Born in North Charleroi on Nov. 28, 1942, she was the daughter of the late Ralph J. and Mary C. Brown Staley. Mary Ann was a memb...
Watching the ducks
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By Mon Valley Independent 
October 6, 2020
Dan Bartkus of Monongahela brought his granddaughter, Cami Mekilo, 3, to the Monongahela Aquatorium to see the ducks Monday evening.
Harhai: Monessen may not need TAN loan for ’21
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By Mon Valley Independent 
October 6, 2020
By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Monessen likely won’t have to seek a tax anticipation note at the beginning of 2021, according to city Administrator John Harhai. The city’s application for a TAN...
Veterans Day parade coming together in Monongahela
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By Mon Valley Independent 
October 6, 2020
By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com Despite the coronavirus pandemic, the Mon Valley Veterans Council Veterans Day Parade is expected to take place next month. The parade, hosted this year by t...
Cheerleaders join fight against breast cancer
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By Mon Valley Independent 
October 5, 2020
By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Even though the pandemic has pushed a group of young cheerleaders off the sidelines this year, it hasn’t stopped them from cheering on their local community.   Recen...
Carroto leads Cougars over B-C
By Mon Valley Independent 
October 5, 2020
By the Mon Valley Independent Bella Carroto netted four goals to lead Charleroi to a 6-0 victory over Beth-Center in Section 2-A play Monday.   Carroto scored a first-half hat trick as the Cougars (3-...
Falcons nip Leopards in double OT
By Mon Valley Independent 
October 5, 2020
By JOSE NEGRON jnegron@yourmvi.com Belle Vernon Area entered Monday’s Section 2-3A showdown with revenge on its mind.   The memory of a 5-0 defeat at the hands of Connellsville last month still linger...
McIntosh, Corey lead Rams past Eagles
By Mon Valley Independent 
October 5, 2020
By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com The Ringgold tennis team doesn’t have the roster it had last season, thanks mostly to the coronavirus. But thanks to senior captain Courtney Berdar and its other c...
BVA to replace hot water tank
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By Mon Valley Independent 
October 5, 2020
By Christine Haines chaines@yourmvi.com After 56 years of service, the hot water storage tank at Belle Vernon Area Middle School is being replaced. In a special session Monday, the Belle Vernon Area S...