S. Allegheny OKs new bus service
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By Mon Valley Independent 
March 25, 2021
By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com Students in the South Allegheny School District will soon have a bus transportation service. At a special meeting Thursday night, school directors unanimousl...
White Oak church marks Greek holiday
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By Mon Valley Independent 
March 25, 2021
By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Greek-Americans from the White Oak and McKeesport area joined the worldwide celebration of the 200th anniversary of their ancestral homeland’s independence. Annunciati...
White Oak makes plans for Easter egg hunt, spring cleanup
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By Mon Valley Independent 
March 25, 2021
By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com White Oak council talked at last week’s meeting about several events taking place as the weather warms up. Aside from announcing Heritage Hill Pool is expected to open...
BVA grad Manown nearing PGA certification
By Mon Valley Independent 
March 25, 2021
By JEFF OLIVER MVI Sports Kirby Manown III returned last month from competing in a golf mini-tour in Texas and Oklahoma last month with mixed results. After a top 10 finish in the first event he playe...
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March 25, 2021
Edward V. Fiordigigli, 87, of Clearwater, Fla., passed away on March 24, 2021. He was born in Monessen on April 14, 1933, the son of Addio Fiordigigli and Loretta Zugaro Fiordigigli. He was a graduate...
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March 25, 2021
Linda Tonini, 65, of California, Pa., passed on Wednesday, March 24, 2021, at Monongahela Valley Hospital. She was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on Dec. 20, 1955, a daughter of Sid and Anna Marie Gauden Go...
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March 25, 2021
Terry Shipley, 81, of Monessen, died Thursday, March 25, 2021, in Jefferson Hills Manor, Pittsburgh. He was born on June 28, 1939, in Pittsburgh, the son of the late Margaret Pearl Shipley. Terry grew...
Child sex abuse lawsuit ‘window’ amendment clears Pa. House
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By Stacy Wolford 
March 24, 2021
By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com Pennsylvania lawmakers on Wednesday finished a new first round of approvals for a constitutional amendment giving victims of child sexual abuse the power to fil...
McKeesport Area makes plans for prom, graduation
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By Stacy Wolford 
March 24, 2021
By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com McKeesport Area School District leaders spoke about plans for year-end traditions such as graduation and prom during Wednesday’s school board meeting. “Spring has spru...
Monongahela recreation board plans moving forward
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By Stacy Wolford 
March 24, 2021
By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com Plans by Monongahela residents to form a recreation board continue to move forward. Earlier this week, 10 residents joined together by conference call to dis...
Monessen to stage spring musical, ‘Ranked’
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By Stacy Wolford 
March 24, 2021
By TAYLOR BROWN Monessen will be the first school in Pennsylvania to perform an up-and-coming musical, “Ranked,” this weekend – and members of the public are invited to attend. The show, by Kyle Holme...
Francis W. ‘Stoney’ Jackson –  Rostraver Township
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By obits 
March 24, 2021
  Francis W. “Stoney” Jackson, 73, of Rostraver Township, went to be with the Lord on Wednesday, March 24, 2021, in his home. Born in Monongahela on Nov. 7, 1947, he was the son of the late Francis W....
John B. Gray –  Roscoe
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March 24, 2021
John B. Gray, 82, of Roscoe, passed away peacefully on March 23, 2021, after a courageous year-long battle with cancer. He was the son of John and Helen Bilitski Gray of Elco. John worked various jobs...
Rona Stein Matta
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March 24, 2021
Rona Stein Matta, surrounded by her immediate family, passed on in peace on March 23, 2021, leaving this world to now be in heaven with her daughter, Devin Matta. Rona was born on Nov. 7, 1965, in Pit...
Catherine Puskarich – Fayette City
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March 24, 2021
Catherine Puskarich, 93, of Fayette City, passed away Monday, March 22, 2021, in her home. She was born Oct. 14, 1927, in Derry, a daughter of the late John and Angela Smen Yurmanovich. Mrs. Puskarich...
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March 24, 2021
Geraldine E. Nicklow Lenhart, 89, of Dunlevy, passed away on Tuesday, March 23, 2021, at home. She was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ in Monongahela, where she was ordained as a deaconess in 1...
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March 24, 2021
Susan Jane Edwards Richard, 47, of Uniontown, died on Monday, March 22, 2021. She was born on June 7, 1973, in Uniontown, a daughter of the late Thomas and Dolores Stossel Chunkala. Susan graduated fr...