By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com Rostraver businesses with mechanical devices including various types of vending machines, may be seeing a refund of all or part of their mechanical device tax f...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Mon Valley Paws plans to hold a dog or cat food drive that starts Monday at Monessen Public Library. Food drive Chairwoman Sharon Lewgood said in July 2019, the m...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Six weeks after it began, the “drama” surrounding the Monessen Recreation Board has seemingly come to an end after three members abruptly resigned Wednesday after...

By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com The Charleroi girls soccer program will be looking for its next head coach after Traci Fleming submitted her resignation. The school board accepted her resignation...

By JOSE NEGRON jnegron@yourmvi.com Once Belle Vernon freshman Quinton Martin picked up his first Division I football offer from Pitt back in November, it seemed as if it was only a matter of time befo...

Again, the heavenly bound train stopped in Donora on March 13, 2021, and Tierra “Girt” Sha’Cole Ward, 29, stepped on board. She was born on Oct. 20, 1991, in Monongahela Valley Hospital. A daughter of...

James “Jim” Walter Yowonske, 63, of Belle Vernon, went to be with the Lord on Wednesday, March 17, 2021, after a valiant battle with cancer since July 2019. A son of the late Walter and Dorothy Matty ...

Joan Yohe Thornton, 72, of Warren, Mich., formerly of New Eagle, passed away on Sunday, March 14, 2021. She was the oldest daughter of the late John B. and Ann Yohe. Joan graduated in 1966 from Monong...

Janet A. Dailey Cope, 74, of Finleyville, Union Township, formerly of Clairton, died Sunday, March 14, 2021, in AGH Jefferson Hospital. Born Sept. 22, 1946, in Clairton, she was the daughter of the la...

Dolores M. Huffman, 88, of California, Pa., died Tuesday, March 16, 2021. She was born Sunday, June 19, 1932, in East Pike Run Township, the daughter of the late Rudolph and Bregeda Tomazzi Martina. S...

Edward Paul Grayden Hough, 59, of Monessen, died Monday, March 15, 2021, in Monongahela Valley Hospital. He was born July 10, 1961, in New Eagle, the son of the late Willard “Joe” and June P. Hoffman ...

Jason McKita, 48, of Luzerne, Pa. and formerly of Charleroi, died Tuesday, March 16, 2021, at Geisinger Wyoming Medical Center from complications related to COVID-19. Born in North Charleroi on March ...

By Dean Dellamalva Jr. MVI Sports The buses had barely unloaded last year at Bucknell University when local swimmers were told to go home due to the shutdown associated with COVID-19. The postponement...

By JOSE NEGRON jnegron@yourmvi.com Former Elizabeth Forward standout and UMass sophomore Tre Mitchell will transfer from the program.   Mitchell, a 6-9 center, announced his intentions via his Twitter...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Hundreds of people who live in McKeesport and surrounding Mon Valley communities got their first dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday during a “community vacci...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Monessen plans to create a Youth and Young Citizens Board.   This month, city council held the first reading of an ordinance that would create the youth board if ...

By Taylor Brown tbrown@yourmvi.com Community members have stepped up to adopt teachers and staff members in the Charleroi Area School District who have worked under stressful circumstances during a ye...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com Some senior projects are done as a graduation requirement, but a senior at California Area High School did hers to save lives. Jayme Gregg, the daughter of Shel...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com The Belle Vernon Area School Board discussed changes to career and technology education for about two hours Tuesday before deciding to add the matter to next we...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Charleroi students may have a more traditional prom than originally anticipated. With capacity restrictions on venues lightening up and vaccinations on the rise, stu...