By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com The former superintendent of Belle Vernon Area School District violated the state ethics act by taking district equipment home for his personal benefit — includin...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Members of the Charleroi Volunteer Fire Department are upset. The first responders addressed council Wednesday regarding rumors about the department’s finances and f...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com McKeesport Area Superintendent Dr. Mark Holtzman provided an update on COVID-19 cases and mitigation efforts during Wednesday’s school board meeting. “We’re looking fo...

By Christine Haines chaines@yourmvi.com When Rostraver Township officials began planning this year’s community Christmas event, they wanted to make it a point of stability in the year as well as a fun...

By Jonathan Guth MVI Sports The numbers may not be there for many dual-meet victories, but Belle Vernon Area head wrestling coach Bob Bove is excited to see what his individual grapplers can do this u...

By JEREMY TEPPER MVI Sports Michael Ladick beams with a frenetic but meticulous energy.   It’s the type of energy fit for a wrestling coach, but as Ladick has found out, not always fit for these COVID...

Lillian H. Matthews Smereczniak, 93, of Belle Vernon, passed away Mon-day, Nov. 30, 2020, at The Residence at Hilltop, Monongahela. Born Feb. 8, 1927, in North Charleroi, she was the daughter of the l...

Paula C. Komperda, 75, of Fayette City, passed away Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020, at Mon Valley Hospital. She was born June 12, 1945, in Elizabeth, N.J., daughter of Jacob F. Jacques and Mary Moravek Jacqu...

Elsie Bray of Arlington, Va., passed away peacefully on Nov. 19, 2020, at age 95. A native of McKeesport, Elsie, the daughter of Joseph and Anna Jacko Hornak, moved to the Washington, D.C., area at th...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com On the heels of the Mon Valley’s first significant snowfall of the season Tuesday, McKeesport Meals on Wheels volunteers and staff on Wednesday worked to make sure cli...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Residents of the City of Monessen will not face a tax increase in 2021 if the preliminary version of next year’s budget is formally approved at the end of the mon...

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com Despite nearly an hour of debate, Ringgold School District directors remain deadlocked about bringing students back to classrooms. The district currently uti...

By Christine Haines chaines@yourmvi.com A middle school gym teacher in the Elizabeth Forward School district has landed a grant to promote joyful and creative learning. The $2,500 grant from the Alleg...

By DEAN DELLAMALVA JR. MVI Sports Carrying success from one season to the next is difficult without other outside influences. The 2020-21 swim season is one Belle Vernon Area has been targeting as a b...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com With less than a month to present a preliminary budget for approval, Charleroi Borough Council is still crunching numbers. Councilwoman Jeannine Motycki, who is head...

Leroy B. Bright, 77, of Monessen, died Sunday Nov. 29, 2020, in AGH Jefferson Hospital. He was born on Dec. 2, 1942, in North Charleroi, the son of the late John Bright Sr. and Elsie Carter Bright. Le...

Craig B. Saxon, 49, of Belle Vernon, passed away on Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020, in his home surrounded by his family. A son of the late Gerald A. Saxon and Elsa Shaffer Saxon, who survives and resides in W...

Rev. Robert McKinley Ingland Jr., 91, of Monongahela, went to be with the Lord on Monday, Nov. 30, 2020. He was born in Charleroi, on Feb. 4, 1929, to Robert and Violet Lewis Ingland Sr. In addition t...

Eleanor A. Vogliotti, 91, of Dunlevy, died on Sunday, Nov. 29, 2020. Born Sept. 13, 1929, she was the daughter of the late Samuel and Angiolina Vogliotti of Allenport. Eleanor graduated from Charleroi...

Marcella “Penny” Wilson Washington, 70, of Toledo, Ohio, formerly of Monessen, transitioned on Friday, Nov. 27, 2020. She was the mother of Davina (Ben) McFarland and Jason Aldrich; and the sister of ...