U.S. Steel sets net-zero target for emissions
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By Mon Valley Independent 
April 22, 2021
By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com In honor of Earth Day, U.S. Steel has set an ambitious environmentally friendly goal for itself. President and CEO David B. Burritt announced this week that the compan...
2 local projects get state funding
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By Mon Valley Independent 
April 22, 2021
By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com A multi-million-dollar project will soon be underway along the banks of the Monongahela River.   The Commonwealth Financing Authority has awarded funding to six loca...
Rostraver Twp. holds Earth Day cleanup
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By Mon Valley Independent 
April 22, 2021
By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com Rostraver Township held its first Earth Day Community Cleanup Thursday, with an estimated ton of litter gathered from the roadsides. Commissioner President John...
Stockdale fire chief honored for 44 years of service
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By Mon Valley Independent 
April 22, 2021
By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com For more than 40 years, Stockdale Fire Chief Tom Wilkinson has devoted his time and efforts to the communities he’s served as a volunteer fire fighter. On Mo...
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By Mon Valley Independent 
April 22, 2021
By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Charleroi is having mixed fortunes on the hiring front. Council has been trying to fill some open positions in recent weeks, including laborers on the street crew, a...
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By Mon Valley Independent 
April 22, 2021
A fire on McKee Avenue in Monessen Thursday night pushed firefighters out of the house when fireworks or pistol rounds began going off inside. Crews were called to a three-story wooden house around 10...
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By Mon Valley Independent 
April 22, 2021
By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com About 20 members of the public attended a virtual Zoom meeting Thursday night to hear more about the rails to trails feasibility study. Dennis Martinak of D. Mart...
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By Mon Valley Independent 
April 22, 2021
By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com State representatives from the Mon Valley weighed in on proposed legislation that would protect retail businesses from closing in case of an emergency disaster decla...
Debra L. Susick  – Charleroi
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By obits 
April 22, 2021
Debra L. Susick, 67, of Charleroi, passed away on Wednesday, April 21, 2021, at UPMC Presbyterian Hospital. She was born Nov. 8, 1953, to the late Stephen and Dorothy Harford Novak and was a graduate ...
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By obits 
April 22, 2021
James M. Monack Sr., 62, of Belle Vernon, went to be with the Lord on Wednesday, April 21, 2021, in Monongahela Valley Hospital. The son of Frank E. and Deanna Senko Monack, who survive and reside in ...
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April 22, 2021
Esther Ermlick, 89, of California, Pa., formerly of Newell, passed away peacefully in Cambridge Creekside Nursing Home, on April 7, 2021. Born in Newell on Jan. 18, 1932, she was the daughter of the l...
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By obits 
April 22, 2021
Anna Marie Farquhar, 73, of Fayette City, went to be with the Lord on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020, in her daughter Brenda’s home. A daughter of the late John and Mary Ercegovich Yusko, she was born in Nort...
Welcome Home, Dominic
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By Stacy Wolford 
April 21, 2021
Submitted Members of the Elizabeth Forward Youth Athletics Tribe baseball team surround their 10-year-old teammate Dominic Grebur after staging a welcome home parade to his Elizabeth Township home Wed...
Pa. DEP report: No violations found at New Eagle properties
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By Stacy Wolford 
April 21, 2021
By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com After a month-long investigation that followed environmental complaints in the Borough of New Eagle, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection ...
Senior hoopers eager to represent Valley in Roundball Classic
By Jeremy Sellew 
April 21, 2021
By JOSE NEGRON jnegron@yourmvi.com After the COVID-19 pandemic forced the cancellation of the annual Roundball Classic last year, a number of senior basketball players are preparing to return to Genev...
Cameron hired to lead Charleroi girls
By Jeremy Sellew 
April 21, 2021
By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com Tom Cameron put it as simply as he could Wednesday – “I just couldn’t stay away.” The longtime Valley soccer coach will man the sidelines once again this coming fa...
Friends mourn  death of longtime MMIDA leader Lue Ann Pawlick
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By Stacy Wolford 
April 21, 2021
By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Lue Ann Pawlick never met a stranger. Both professionally, and personally, she loved deeply and cared about people whom she met in all walks of her life. Pawlick, 60...
Ringgold OKs new scoreboard purchase
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By Stacy Wolford 
April 21, 2021
By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com Ringgold school officials continue to move forward with renovations to the high school’s athletic equipment. At their meeting Wednesday night, school directo...
Rostraver wants swifter state action on road issues
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By Stacy Wolford 
April 21, 2021
By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation says it will address a water problem on a section of Finley Road in Rostraver Township as part of the I-70 improve...