By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Leadership Washington County is “feeding the fight” during the COVID-19 pandemic. Based in Canonsburg, LWC is a nonprofit organization designed to identify, educate ...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com The Elizabeth Area Development Corporation will host a symbolic groundbreaking ceremony May 22 for the Moose Building demolition project, its first major undert...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Two state lawmakers, including one from the Mon Valley, plan to introduce legislation that would offer health care workers and first responders working on the front li...

By Jose Negron jnegron@yourmvi.com Even the COVID-19 pandemic doesn’t seem to be able to slow down Evan Lewis. A three-sport athlete at Elizabeth Forward who saw his junior baseball season end before ...

By Jose Negron jnegron@yourmvi.com Upon his graduation from Thomas Jefferson High School next spring, Preston Zandier will trade in his black and gold for red, black and white.   Zandier made his futu...

By Jose Negron jnegron@yourmvi.com Ringgold head hockey coach Rick Kalinowski knew it was coming.   But it didn’t make the official announcement any easier to hear.   The PIHL announced Sunday that th...

Roy Armstrong, 77, of Dunlevy, passed away on Friday, May 15, 2020, at his home surrounded by family.  He was born in Victory Hill Dec. 24, 1942, to the late Albert and Ellen Samer Armstrong. He gradu...

Pauline Doris Koval, 94, of Donora, passed away on Saturday, May 16, 2020, at Jennie’s Personal Care Home in Isabella, Pa. She was born in Donora, the daughter of the late Joseph and Mary Buck Syrko. ...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com The Mon Valley was open for business Friday after a long period of COVID-19 lockdown. Tara Bottino, who owns Just 4 You Gift Shop in Monongahela, said she had a f...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Hundreds of mourners lined the streets of McKeesport in three locations Friday to bid farewell to a beloved teacher and McKeesport councilwoman. Jamie Brewster-Filotei...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com A Charleroi Regional police officer under investigation for drug-related crimes has resigned from his position as K-9 officer. William M. Gardner, 39, is charged wit...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Jim and Connie Rach are unsure if they’ll be able to open the Pine Cove Beach Club pool in Charleroi this year, but they’re positive it won’t happen by Memorial Day. “...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com The Charleroi Area High School Class of 2020 Executive Committee will be remembered as selfless in the face of adversity. On Friday, the group of nine girls donated ...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com The Mon Valley Regional Chamber of Commerce “family” is getting bigger.   On Friday, the Twin Rivers Chamber of Commerce, based in Rostraver Township, announced on F...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com The Allegheny County Police accident reconstruction team is trying to determine the cause of a head-on collision around 9:15 p.m. Thursday. The crash occurred i...

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com A Monessen woman involved in a two-car crash Thursday on Grand Boulevard was pronounced dead two hours after the crash occurred. According to Monessen police...

By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com After finishing with 30 wins over the past two seasons, Ronnie Drennen has resigned as the head girls basketball coach at Belle Vernon Area. Drennen, a physical ed...

By MARK KABOLY For the Valley Independent MONONGAHELA — Let’s get this out of the way up front. Yes, the Ringgold Rams got no respect when the WPIAL pairings came out as they were unranked, forcing th...

Beloved husband, father, grandfather and friend, J. Ronald “Ron” Reeves of Juno Beach, Fla., passed away on May 1, 2020. Ron is survived by his adoring family, wife, Dorothy; son Christopher; daughter...

Paul E. Cromling, 75, of Jefferson Hills, formerly of Bunola, died Thursday, May 14, 2020, in Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh. He was born May 21, 1944, in New Eagle, the son of John and Verlet...