By JONATHAN GUTH For MVI Sports Thomas Jefferson freshman Maddox Shaw fell one point short of obtaining Powerade gold, but if this year’s performance was any indication, wrestling fans should get used...

By JEFF OLIVER MVI Sports The new area officer for the Pennsylvana Fish and Boat Commission knows the waterways of the Mon Valley very well. John Mahn, a Charleroi resident, was appointed District 2 C...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com The new concession stand at the lower fields at the John DiVirgilio Sports Complex in Rostraver Township was formally dedicated Thursday with the unveiling of a...

By WAYNE STEWART For MVI Sports There are two cliches which proclaim the same basic idea of how time passes so quickly, and both have continued to hold true throughout the years. To read the rest of t...

By the MVI staff The year started with a lot of promise. The world had vaccines. And even as the planet reached 2 million dead by the middle of the month of January, people in many of the hard-hit cou...

George Mazur, 85, of Monessen, passed away on Dec. 29, 2021, at Penn Highlands Mon Valley Hospital. He was born on May 14, 1936, to Nicholas and Stella Polomackanich Mazur in Monessen. He was a gradua...

By Taylor Brown-Herman tbrown@yourmvi.com With hospital staff running ragged to keep up with an influx of patients as variants of COVID-19 continue to plague local communities, the New Year will pose ...

Marshalle F. Pager, 76, of North Charleroi, passed away on Dec. 28, 2021. Born on March 25, 1945, she was the daughter of the late Dominick and Rose Bucella Ross. She enjoyed doing ceramics, listening...

By the MVI The City of Monessen hasn’t acted to approve a contract with the lowest bidder on the garbage contract that is set to expire tonight. Monessen council held a bid opening for the garbage con...

Jean Sickman, 87, of New Eagle, died Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2021, in the West Penn Hospital, Pittsburgh. She was born Jan. 18, 1934, in Gallatin, daughter of Andrew and Annie Frankso Roman. Jean was a memb...

On Dec. 29, 2021, Victoria DeSimone Sepesy of Monessen peacefully crossed into her eternal home. Victoria was born on Feb. 9, 1963, to Tony DeSimone and Nancy DeSimone Cwiakala. She was preceded in de...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com As the new year begins, so does the next chapter of my life — retirement. I have been a full-time professional journalist for the past 40 years, starting as a w...

By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com Twice is nice for the Belle Vernon Area basketball team as the Leopards rolled over host Charleroi to claim a second straight cfsbank Holiday Classic championship ...

By JOSE NEGRON jnegron@yourmvi.com East Allegheny used a late second-quarter surge to take the lead and never looked back en route to a convincing 64-43 victory over Ringgold on the final night of the...

By JOSE NEGRON jnegron@yourmvi.com After guiding their team to the WPIAL championship game last month, the Belle Vernon Area duo of Devin Whitlock and Cole Weightman were among the four area football ...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com The Young Preservationists Association of Pittsburgh released its annual top 10 list of buildings and places in the region the organization thinks are worth saving. An...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com The Rostraver Township Commissioners Wednesday adopted the 2022 budget of just over $8 million with no increases in the real estate tax or the fire tax. Propert...

Margaret Ruffner-Bobbs, 43, of North Belle Vernon, passed away Thursday, Dec. 23, 2021, at UPMC Presbyterian Hospital, Pittsburgh. Born Oct. 5, 1978, in Greensburg, she was the daughter of the late Ra...

By Trib Total Media Newly elected Westmoreland County officials will start their new jobs next week, along with several others who were elected in November. Among those being sworn in Wednesday was We...

By Taylor Brown-Herman tbrown@yourmvi.com An ongoing streets project in Dunlevy will likely be complete in 2022 after several agencies pulled through to assist the borough with funding. In February, t...