The Salvation Army in Monessen hosted a Red Kettle Popup Event Saturday at various businesses throughout the Mid-Mon Valley. Participating businesses collected monetary donations for the Salvation Arm...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Monessen students are forming their first BOTS IQ team. The manufacturing workforce development program helps high school students learn the ins and outs of manufact...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Christmas came early Saturday for a pack of rescued dogs in White Oak. Three brothers — Chase and Ty Kretzler and Presley Buttermore, all students of the Quaker Valley...

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com If you want to relive Monongahela’s 250th celebration from 2019, the Monongahela Area Historical Society has just the ticket for you. The society is now sell...

Jenn Codeluppi / Mon Valley Independent Mia Strickler, 6, of Collinsburg handed out treat bags, courtesy of Big’s Sanitation, to Alice Allen, 6, and Freddie Allen, 5, both of Fellsburg, during Rostrav...

Rostraver Elementary School’s PTA held a drive-thru Festival of Trees Friday evening at Lowe’s Home Warehouse in Rostraver Township. It featured decorated trees by the students, along with Santa Claus...

By Christine Haines chaines@yourmvi.com The body of a 15-year-old Jefferson Hills resident who had been missing since Nov. 21 was found Friday after an extensive search. Elizabeth Borough police Chief...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com In his 2021 mayoral budget message and during Wednesday’s council meeting, Mayor Michael Cherepko offered an update about garbage and recycling hauling in McKeesport. ...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com December might not seem to be the best time to head to the river, but the winter season for rowing will soon start in the Mon Valley. While it’s a bit too cold to hi...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com In Monessen, COVID-19 has reared its ugly head in several areas of the city’s operations.   City Hall had to close all of Thanksgiving week and the first couple o...

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com To Monongahela resident Laura Magone, baking cookies means more than just satisfying a sweet tooth. Magone, president of the Monongahela Area Historical Soci...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Vine Street Park in West Newton looks like a scene from a Hallmark Christmas movie. Though annual holiday festivities were canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic,...

By DEAN DELLAMALVA JR. MVI Sports Most great stories of triumph begin with some trials and tribulations. Any champion who pushes through and is successful in this time will have quite the story to tel...

Thomas A. Joswick, 92, formerly of Lower Burrell, Charleroi and Washington, passed away peacefully Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020, in the personal care facility at Concordia Haven, Cabot. Tom is remembered f...

Ella May Pierce Abbott, 89, passed away on Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020, at Monongahela Valley Hospital. She was a long-time resident of Long Branch. She currently resided at Cambridge Hillside personal car...

Vicki L. Rawlins Kizzie, 70, of Monessen, transitioned Dec. 2, 2020. She was the beloved mother of Baron McCrae (Rayme), Tiffanie Johnson and Troy M. Rawlins; sister of Frank Rawlins Jr., Jennifer Fra...

Lorraine Anders Lees, 82, of Craven Hill, passed away on Friday, Dec. 4, 2020. Born on May 13, 1938, she was the daughter of the late Alexander and Kathryn Anders. She was Catholic by faith and had wo...

Mary Ann Shawley Klaka Taylor, 87, of Mt. Pleasant, passed away Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020, at Excela Health Frick Hospital, Mt. Pleasant. Mary Ann was born May 9, 1933, in Calumet, Pa., the daughter of ...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Although the city’s Recreation Board had to scale back some aspects of the celebration due to pandemic restrictions, McKeesport’s Festival of Trees kicked off Thursday...

Lennie Boso puts the finishing touches on a flocked Christmas tree at Joseph’s Nursery in Monessen. They are still taking orders for flocked trees and have a variety of colors.