TJ’s Mac Duda bound for Ivy League
By Mon Valley Independent 
May 10, 2020
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...
Remember When?: Charleroi stunner: Cougars upend BV Area
By Mon Valley Independent 
May 10, 2020
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 ...
Pandemic can’t stop Mother’s Day
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By Mon Valley Independent 
May 8, 2020
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...
Area officials glad to be getting  back to business
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By Mon Valley Independent 
May 8, 2020
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...
Floral demand in full bloom
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By Mon Valley Independent 
May 8, 2020
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...
Dance Party Parade today
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By Mon Valley Independent 
May 8, 2020
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...
CFFC receives grant for masks
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By Mon Valley Independent 
May 8, 2020
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...
Walther resigns as Serra Catholic coach
By Mon Valley Independent 
May 8, 2020
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 Mon Valley Independent 
May 8, 2020
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...
Moms aren’t perfect,  but they want to be
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By Mon Valley Independent 
May 8, 2020
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...
Maxine Lois Baer-Haroulakis – MCKEESPORT
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By obits 
May 8, 2020
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...
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By obits 
May 8, 2020
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 V. Gillingham Johnson
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By obits 
May 8, 2020
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...
Local parish brings fish to first responders, essential workers
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By Mon Valley Independent 
May 7, 2020
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...
Valley hopes to move from red to yellow
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By Mon Valley Independent 
May 7, 2020
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...
Donora OKs plexiglass to prepare for reopening
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By Mon Valley Independent 
May 7, 2020
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...
For Mother’s Day, Dawn Brady wants her son’s killer found
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By Mon Valley Independent 
May 7, 2020
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’ ...