By Christine Haines chaines@yourmvi.com The problem of blight is being addressed head on in Elizabeth Township with the development of an interactive database for use by code enforcement officers. The...

Attorney Paul Michael Petro passed away peacefully at his home in Donora, on Oct. 5, 2020. He was born on July 8, 1933, in Donora to the late Michael and Mary Petro. Paul was also preceded in death by...

Kathleen Lofink Schoemig, 77, died Friday, Oct. 2, 2020, at her home in Mesa, Ariz. She was born June 6, 1943, in Charleroi, to the late Thomas James Lofink Sr. who passed July 12, 1991, and Sophia Ka...

By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com Low numbers have cost Monessen with three games left to play this season. The district announced Wednesday that the Greyhounds will forfeit Friday’s scheduled game...

By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com After what head coach Jon Ducoli called “a slow start” Tuesday, the Charleroi boys soccer team kicked things into high gear and blasted visiting Waynesburg Central...

By DEAN DELLAMALVA JR. MVI Sports The Belle Vernon Area boys soccer team scored five goals on rebounds and got a hat trick from Dylan Rathway in an 8-1 victory over Greensburg Salem in Section 3-3A Tu...

By jose negron jnegron@yourmvi.com During a halftime meeting with his team Tuesday, Elizabeth Forward head coach Doug Finke preached the importance of movement off the ball.   He noticed East Alleghen...

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com The structure that has housed the remains of Sutersville’s founder for 116 years will soon get a facelift. Entombed with his wife and three other people in W...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Rules concerning crowd size restrictions are changing again. On Tuesday, Gov. Tom Wolf and Department of Health Secretary Dr. Rachel Levine announced an amendment to...

By Christine Haines chaines@yourmvi.com Neither state Rep. Bud Cook, R-West Pike Run Township, nor the Washington County Redevelopment Authority is backing down when it comes to an open records reques...

By Christine Haines chaines@yourmvi.com Nearly two years of planning are about to bear fruit for the Greater Washington County Food Bank as it prepares to put a solar energy array online later this mo...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com The second annual Belle Vernon Starbucks Car Show is moving full steam ahead.   Organizer Katie Chermely said last year’s event, which benefits the Bag Brigade, was ...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com A McKeesport police detective involved in a motorcycle accident on Long Run Road (state Route 48) near the White Oak/McKeesport border Monday is recovering from seriou...

Noreen Elizabeth White Fazzini, 93, of Donora, peacefully passed away on to eternal glory with the Lord on Friday, Oct. 2, 2020, at Monongahela Valley Hospital. She was born in Donora on June 18, 1927...

Mary Ann Hefner, 77, of Rostraver Township, died Monday, Oct. 5, 2020. Born in North Charleroi on Nov. 28, 1942, she was the daughter of the late Ralph J. and Mary C. Brown Staley. Mary Ann was a memb...

Dan Bartkus of Monongahela brought his granddaughter, Cami Mekilo, 3, to the Monongahela Aquatorium to see the ducks Monday evening.

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Monessen likely won’t have to seek a tax anticipation note at the beginning of 2021, according to city Administrator John Harhai. The city’s application for a TAN...

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com Despite the coronavirus pandemic, the Mon Valley Veterans Council Veterans Day Parade is expected to take place next month. The parade, hosted this year by t...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Even though the pandemic has pushed a group of young cheerleaders off the sidelines this year, it hasn’t stopped them from cheering on their local community.   Recen...

By the Mon Valley Independent Bella Carroto netted four goals to lead Charleroi to a 6-0 victory over Beth-Center in Section 2-A play Monday.   Carroto scored a first-half hat trick as the Cougars (3-...