McKeesport council promotes Steele to assistant police chief
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By Stacy Wolford 
February 5, 2020
By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com There is officially a new assistant police chief in the City of McKeesport. Mayor Michael Cherepko announced during Wednesday’s council meeting that Mark Steele, who w...
McKeesport Area band hosting Groundhog festival
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By Stacy Wolford 
February 5, 2020
By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com When the conductor calls for “instruments up” at McKeesport Area High School on Friday, students from four different area school districts will prepare themselves to p...
New Eagle council appoints Walters
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By Stacy Wolford 
February 5, 2020
By Beth Hope-Cushey For the MVI New Eagle council appointed a new member Tuesday night. Following a unanimous vote, resident Dennis Walters was appointed to the vacant two-year seat. Walters, who has ...
Obituaries
By obits 
February 5, 2020
Rita A. Fisher, 94, of Swissvale, died Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2020. She was born on Dec. 16, 1925, in Braddock and was the daughter of the late Davide and Elvira Petrilli Russo. She was the wife of the late...
Jack Harris – Irwin
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By obits 
February 5, 2020
Jack Harris, 78, of Irwin, died Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2020. He was born in McKeesport on Sept. 13, 1941, the son of the late Martha L. Kinling Harris. He was employed from the former Carbidie which was lat...
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By obits 
February 5, 2020
Blanche J. Losey, 88, of Rostraver Township, died Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2020, in Monongahela Valley Hospital. She was born April 16, 1931 in Monongahela, the daughter of Edward and Marjorie Wilson Mellor. ...
Evelyn M. Manown – Belle Vernon
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By obits 
February 5, 2020
Evelyn M. Manown, 93, of Belle Vernon, went to be with the Lord on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020. A daughter of the late Frank and Teresa Vizza Parise, she was born in Belle Vernon on June 1, 1926. A lifelo...
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By obits 
February 5, 2020
Christopher Alan Ornot, 36, of Belle Vernon, died suddenly at home on Jan. 18, 2020. He was born in Monongahela, on June 16, 1983, to Philip J. Ornot Sr. and Teresa Angelo and spent most of his life l...
Ronald A. Pacy – Monessen
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By obits 
February 5, 2020
Ronald A. Pacy, 84, of Monessen, passed away at home on Feb. 4, 2020. He was born in Donora, Sept. 23, 1935, son of the late Premo and Dolores Bachetti Pacy. Ron was a member of the St. Andrew the Apo...
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By obits 
February 5, 2020
John A. Rach, 85, formerly of Charleroi, passed away on Feb. 4, 2020, at his home in Somerset, Pa. John was born in Pittsburgh on Aug. 19, 1934, the son of the late Ferdinand and Madeline Klaus Rach. ...
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By obits 
February 5, 2020
Betty L. Harger Swaney, 92, of Monessen, died Sunday, Feb. 2, 2020, in Havencrest Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, Monongahela. She was born Aug. 10, 1927, in Belle Vernon, a daughter of the late...
Witnesses: Pagans’ victim appeared dead
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By Mon Valley Independent 
February 5, 2020
By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Multiple eyewitnesses testified Tuesday that they believed Troy Harris was dead in the minutes after he was attacked by members of the Pagans Motorcycle Club last...
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By Mon Valley Independent 
February 5, 2020
By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Area legislators are both hopeful and frustrated regarding Gov. Tom Wolf’s 2020-21 budget proposal — but all are ready to get to work. Wolf, who delivered his annual...
Donora care home shut down
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By Mon Valley Independent 
February 5, 2020
By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com Residents of a Donora personal care home with a history of violations awakened Tuesday to learn they would have new accommodations after the home was ordered...
Learning from the symphony
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By Mon Valley Independent 
February 5, 2020
By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com Symphonic wind ensemble students at Elizabeth Forward High School have been learning that even professionals need to practice the fundamentals. The students hav...
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By Mon Valley Independent 
February 5, 2020
By Beth Hope-Cushey For the MV Independent Carroll Township supervisors appointed Ken Hillman to fill the vacancy left open with the Jan. 25 death of Supervisor James "Don" Harrison.   Board Chairman ...
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By Mon Valley Independent 
February 5, 2020
By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com With reports of the emerging coronavirus — also called 2019-nCoV — making its way from China to the U.S. within the past week, residents in the Mon Valley ma...