By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com The coronavirus pandemic has forced residents, businesses and schools to adapt to shutdowns, layoffs and reduced hours. A perfect example of people coming to...

By Jose Negron jnegron@yourmvi.com Mac Duda is preparing to take the leap from the WPIAL’s Big 8 Conference to the Ivy League.   A former standout offensive lineman at Thomas Jefferson, Duda will soon...

By Josh Yohe For the Valley independent The Charleroi girls softball team produced perhaps their best performance of the season yesterday, ending Belle Vernon Area’s bid for a perfect season in Class ...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Wearing plastic gloves and a face mask and sitting in a rocking chair wrapped in a blanket, 93-year-old Jeanne Conchilla got an early Mother’s Day treat Friday that br...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com State Sen. Camera Bartolotta, R-Carroll Township, spilled the beans the night before Gov. Tom Wolf announced most Southwest Pennsylvania counties would move to th...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com Between Mother’s Day presents and spring planting, this is traditionally the busiest time of the year for florists and garden centers. This year is no exception...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Front yards across the Mon Valley will turn into make-shift dance floors today as local DJs take to the streets to bring mini-dance parties to dozens of neighborhood...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com The Community Foundation of Fayette County has received a $30,000 grant to purchase and donate masks to organizations throughout the county. The grant was awarded by...

By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com Serra Catholic will be on the hunt for a new boys basketball coach after Justin Walther tendered his resignation Thursday. Walther, who coached the Eagles over the...

By The Valley Independent It is often said that the last out of a baseball game is the hardest to get. That sentiment was never more evident than it was Wednesday at California for the Charleroi Couga...

By STACY WOLFORD swolford@yourmvi.com “All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.” — George Washington As   we c...

Joyce (neé Ellin) Stevens, 65, of Eastlake, Ohio, formerly of Monessen, passed away suddenly Thursday, April 23, 2020. She was born Dec. 1, 1954, in the Charleroi-Monessen area, the daughter of the la...

Maxine Lois Baer-Haroulakis, 72, of McKeesport, died Wednesday, May 6, 2020. She was born in McKeesport on June 4, 1947, and is the daughter of the late Mack and Alice Marie Bibby Baer. Maxine was a n...

Elizabeth “Betty” Kunca Trembach, 92, passed away on April 28, 2020. She was born in Monessen on Sept. 29, 1927, daughter of the late Michael and Mary Resetar Kunca Sr. Betty was a graduate of Monesse...

Linda Gail Benini Charleroi Linda Gail Benini, 71, of Charleroi, passed away at home on May 6, 2020. Linda was born in Charleroi on July 15, 1948, the daughter of the late Livio and Lillian Smalley Be...

Gene Virginia Gillingham Johnson, 94, died May 5, 2020. She was born Sept. 19, 1925, in the mountains of West Virginia, in the town of Minnehaha Springs, and is the daughter of the late Dwoit and Marg...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com St. Andrew the Apostle Parish found a creative way to offer goodwill to first responders and some essential workers in the Mid-Mon Valley while also preventing food th...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Gov. Tom Wolf is expected to announce the next round of counties that will move into the yellow phase of reopening today, but state Sen. Camera Bartolotta (R-Carr...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Donora will order plexiglass for the administration office and the police station in preparation for the reopening of government offices. The plexiglass will form...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com For the past five years, time has stood still for Dawn Brady. Her son, Drew Molinari, was gunned down May 11, 2015, while working as a clerk at Minniti Motorsports’ ...