By JOSE NEGRON jnegron@yourmvi.com After a decade spent guiding the Yough girls soccer program, Dann Appolonia has decided to call it a career. The veteran head coach is stepping down following 10 sea...

Walter Kraynek, 99, passed away peacefully at his Monessen home on Nov. 30, 2021. Born on Christmas Day, Dec. 25, 1921, he was a son of the late Stephen and Mary Micknivich Kraynek. Walter was a lifel...

By ADAM BREWER MVI Sports One of Bentworth boys’ basketball coach Bob Kennedy favorite part of the game is the teaching aspect. Kennedy has been with the Bearcats the last 20 seasons, 19 of which have...

  George P. Turner, 91, of Pricedale, went to be with the Lord on Dec. 1, 2021, in his home. A son of the late Arthur Buddy and Uba Manila Turner, he was born in Price-dale on Sept. 6, 1930. A lifelon...

Yvonne Vingas, 82, of Monessen, passed away on Dec. 1, 2021, in Penn Highlands Monongahela Valley Hospital Inc., Monongahela. She was born on March 10, 1939, in North Charleroi. She was the daughter o...

By JEFF OLIVER MVI Sports Jim Nesser has been around basketball as a player and coach for a long time. So, the fourth-year Yough boys mentor recognizes talent when he sees it. And going into the 2021-...

Peter Hemington Kemp Sr., 87, passed away Monday, Nov. 29, 2021, at home near Seven Springs in Champion, Pa., after complications due to pneumonia. He lived more years than expected, given his first h...

By WAYNE STEWART For MVI Sports It’s impossible to do an apples-to-apples comparison between quarterbacks Bernie Galiffa of Donora and Monongahela’s Joe Montana. Factors such as their school’s strengt...

John Andrew “Boo Boo” Coleman, 63, of Donora died Sunday, Nov. 28, 2021, in his daughter’s home in Pittsburgh. He was born in Washington, Pa. on Feb. 27, 1958, the son of the late Arthur Coleman and E...

By Taylor Brown-Herman tbrown@yourmvi.com Historic Christmas lights will once again light the streets of North Belle Vernon. For years, the fire department has been trying to raise enough money to rep...

Jacqueline Louise Stepp, 77, of Coon Rapids, Minn., passed away Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2021. Born in Donora on Feb. 23, 1944, Jacqueline was the daughter of the late Butler and Gladys Roddy. In addition ...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Monessen Council met Tuesday in a special meeting held purportedly to hold the first reading of the 2022 budget on the last day it could be done but Mayor Matt Sh...

Christopher “Fred” Polaski, 57, of New Eagle, died Thursday, Nov. 25, 2021, in Penn Highlands Mon Valley Hospital. Born Jan. 6, 1964, in Monongahela, he was the son of the late Francis A. and Judy A. ...

By Taylor Brown-HERMAN tbrown@yourmvi.com The chairman of the Rostraver Township commissioners is accused of impersonating and harassing fellow commissioners and other political rivals using “burner” ...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com On Giving Tuesday, the board of the Allegheny Regional Asset District, more commonly known as RAD, passed its 2022 budget. The $118 million spending plan for next year...

Raymond E. Matthews, 60, of Belle Vernon, passed away peacefully at Penn Highlands Mon Valley Hospital on Nov. 29, 2021. Born in North Charleroi on May 22, 1961, Raymond was the son of the late Raymon...

Susan Faye Rountree, 60, of Fayette City, went to be with the Lord on Sunday, Nov. 28, 2021, at AGH Jefferson Hospital. A daughter of the late Keith Livingstone and Dolores Faye Livingstone, who survi...

By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press HARRISBURG (AP) — An order requiring masks inside Pennsylvania’s K-12 schools and child care facilities will remain in place while the state Supreme Court considers t...

Mable Casciani, 98, of New Eagle, went home to be with the Lord on Thursday, Nov. 25, 2021, in Harmony. She was born in Char- leroi on March 21, 1923, a daughter of Angelo and Lydia Berton Biagini. Ma...

  Robert Clayton Yowan, 95, of Monongahela, met his heavenly Father on Saturday, Nov. 27, 2021. He was born in 1926, as the youngest of 12, in Collinsburg. His favorite boyhood memories include skatin...