By EMILY BENNETT DILULLO ebennett@yourmvi.com An employee at a New Eagle industrial company was taken by helicopter to a hospital after getting his leg caught in an industrial mixer Friday morning.   ...

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com Waste Management wants to improve recycling collections, and now the company has the ability to hit residents where it really hurts. Their wallets. According...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Not many Pennsylvania residents swim in February, but that won’t be true in California next weekend. On Feb. 1, nearly 40 brave souls will plunge in to the Monongahe...

By Renatta Signorini Trib Total Media Poll workers are needed in Monessen for the March 17 special election for state representative and in other communities for the April primary election. The Westmo...

By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com After a 27-point beating at the hands of Uniontown Jan. 3, the Belle Vernon Area boys basketball team wanted nothing more than their next shot at the Red Raiders. ...

By Adam Brewer MVI Sports To say Friday night was busy and strange for the Ringgold boys basketball team would be an understatement. It started early when the team’s game against Waynesburg Central wa...

By Jose negron jnegron@yourmvi.com Dan Bosnic doesn’t look back on Friday night’s matchup against Bishop Canevin and think about how it ended.   Instead, the second-year Monessen coach is concerned wi...

By Dean Dellamalva Jr. MVI Sports The South Allegheny boys basketball team has been quite the story this season.   Despite boasting a lineup without the presence of a senior, the Gladiators have gone ...

Justina E. Bruchwalski Baron, 72, of Rostraver Township, went with the angels on Jan. 24, 2020. She was born in Pittsburgh to the late Bernard and Justina Walter Bruchwalski. Justina was a member of S...

Rose Margaret Disclafani, 90, of Mechanicsville, Md., passed away peacefully at her home on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020, surrounded by her loving family. Rose was born on Feb. 23, 1929, in Monessen, to the...

Robert H. “Bob” Dragan, 82, of Monessen, died Friday, Jan. 24, 2020, at his home. He was born on Dec. 26, 1937, in Monessen, the son of the late Henry and Anne Adams Dragan. Bob was a 1955 graduate of...

Philomena Leonard, 90, of Donora, died Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020, at South Hills Rehabilitation and Wellness Center in Canonsburg. She was a member of the St. Andrew the Apostle Parish Donora Campus. Sh...

The granddaughters of Julia Agnes Paholski of Belle Vernon are so sad to announce that our “Grammy” was called to God early in the morning of Jan. 23, 2020.  She was 101 years old. Gram died in her ho...

Shirley A. (née Hermann) Patch, 78, of Ruffsdale, died Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2020, peacefully at her home with her husband of 55 years by her side. She was born in Donora on Jan. 29, 1941, daughter of t...

Eleanor Marie Zettle, 87, of Gibsonia, formerly of Monongahela, died Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020, in St. Barnabas Nursing Home, Gibsonia. She was born Jan. 27, 1932 in Monongahela, the daughter of Frank a...

Mike Darnay / For the Mon Valley Independent Eleven-year-old Molly Pugh takes a shot at halftime of Thursday’s Thomas Jefferson girls basketball game. Children were allowed to shoot for a $1 donation ...

By EMILY BENNETT DILULLO ebennett@yourmvi.com Best friends, dedicated aunts, moms and disgruntled little brothers accompanied local high school ladies at Jazzy Boutique’s third annual Glitter and Gold...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com The Westmoreland County Republican Party selected its candidate Thursday for the upcoming special election to fill the vacant seat in the 58th Legislative Distr...

By EMILY BENNETT DILULLO and TAYLOR BROWN ebennett@yourmvi.com, tbrown@yourmvi.com Several local fire departments will benefit from annual state funding again this year. Fire departments throughout th...

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com A dodgeball game usually invokes memories of gym class. But a friendly, night-time game of dodgeball will help students and teachers in the West Jefferson Hi...