By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Monessen City Council has delayed introducing an animal control ordinance as it reconsiders the regulations it will contain. Initially, it was discussed during a ...

By JOSE NEGRON jnegron@yourmvi.com BeeGraphix head coach Tim Tyree is looking forward to opening up play in the Mon Valley Independent Summer Basketball League when his team meets Farmers Insurance in...

Thomas P. McLaughlin, 65, of Monessen, passed away on June 19, 2021, at his residence. He was born on Sept. 11, 1955, in Charleroi to the late Todd and Marguerite Kirsh McLaughlin. Tom had been a long...

By JOSE NEGRON jnegron@yourmvi.com Since graduating from Charleroi High School in 2008, Chad Pappasergi has spent more than a decade compiling an impressive coaching resume.   From serving as an assis...

By Jeff Oliver MVI Sports Not every local story that came out of the COVID-19 pandemic was bad. A case in point is Steve Russell’s experience. Russell, the executive chairman of the Mid Mon Valley All...

Twins Knox and Via Brandemarte, 20 months, of Carroll Township enjoyed a morning stroll Friday before the weather got too warm.

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com “The Road to Prosperity, Economic Development in the Mon Valley” was the theme of The Mon Yough Area Chamber of Commerce’s annual legislative luncheon Friday. With Sen...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com There is a room at St. Andrew the Apostle’s Donora campus that looks a little like Santa’s Workshop, if you swapped toys for fabric. On the third Friday of every ...

By Eric Seiverling eseiverling@yourmvi.com Students in the Mon Valley Performing Arts Academy gave a show-stopping performance Friday as they concluded the academy’s five-day Summer Experience Jr. pro...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com Before leaving for college, a recent Elizabeth Forward graduate will spend the summer working with some of her former teachers to further develop a music class ...

Louis Michael Durka, 91, of Donora, passed away on Monday, June 14, 2021, at Mon Valley Care Center, Monongahela. He was born on May 21, 1930, in Charleroi, a son of Stanislaw and Anelia Jackowska Dur...

Anthony E. “Tug” Pellegrino, 65, of Monongahela, died unexpectedly Tuesday, June 15, 2021, in his home. Born Aug. 4, 1955, in New Eagle, he was the son of the late Stephen and Kathryn O’Dell Pellegrin...

Ronald J. Furio, 96, of Monessen, died on June 15, 2021, in Monongahela Valley Hospital. He was born in Monessen on July 7, 1924, to Eduardo and Matilda Caruso Furio. Ron was a graduate of Monessen Hi...

By JOSE NEGRON jnegron@yourmvi.com For the second consecutive year, Alyssa Clutter was selected with the first overall pick in the Mon Valley Independent Summer Basketball League girls draft Thursday ...

By Eric Seiverling eseiverling@yourmvi.com Pennsylvania will face another showdown between the state’s Republican-led Legislature and Democrat Gov. Tom Wolf after senators narrowly passed a bill this ...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com Sen. Jim Brewster, D-McKeesport, is beginning to get some response to a letter he sent to top officials in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education urg...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com This Saturday, when Monessen holds its first ceremony to commemorate Juneteenth, it will also be the first time the occasion is recognized as a federal holiday. P...

By Eric Seiverling eseiverling@yourmvi.com Local libraries received a boost recently when the Washington County Community Foundation awarded $221,500 in grants to public libraries from its Community C...

Jacquelin L. Calderone slid into grace and went home to be with the Lord on June 13, 2021. She was born July 15, 1954, to the late John and Martha Johns. “Jackie,” as she was so affectionately called,...

Jean Ferreri, 94, of Belle Vernon, went to be with the Lord on Wednesday, June 16, 2021. A daughter of the late Joseph and Elizabeth Ferrari Vaccaro, she was born in North Charleroi on Nov. 23, 1926. ...