Bearcats eager to embrace rare underdog role as playoffs begin
By Mon Valley Independent 
October 22, 2021
By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com When it comes to the soccer playoffs, there’s one thing that has been a constant around the Mon Valley. To read the rest of the story, please see a copy of Friday’...
Cougars, Leopards battle to draw
By Jeremy Sellew 
October 21, 2021
By JOSE NEGRON jnegron@yourmvi.com Playoff soccer doesn’t start until Saturday, but Belle Vernon Area and Charleroi experienced quite the tuneup Wednesday night. A non-section meeting between the pair...
Fall playground fun
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By Stacy Wolford 
October 21, 2021
Jenn Codeluppi / Mon Valley Independent Charlie Carson, 6, of Fallowfield Township enjoyed the fall sunshine and warm weather at the playground behind the Charleroi Area Elementary Center Wednesday af...
Claire Lynn Bozik  – North Charleroi
Obituaries
By obits 
October 21, 2021
Claire Lynn Bozik, 63, of North Charleroi, died unexpectedly on Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021, in the emergency room at Penn Highlands Mon Valley Hospital. She was born on July 8, 1958, in North Charleroi, t...
WPIAL announces soccer playoff field
By Jeremy Sellew 
October 21, 2021
By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com The WPIAL announced its tournament brackets for the soccer playoffs Wednesday and the Mon Valley is well represented. Seven boys teams and six girls teams made the...
Elaine P. Weiss  – Dunlevy
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By obits 
October 21, 2021
Elaine P. Weiss, 87, of Dunlevy, passed away peacefully at home on Oct. 19, 2021. The daughter of the late Thomas and Sophie Oleksak Peake, Elaine was born in Charleroi on Aug.18, 1934. A graduate of ...
Donald Wesley Calloway –  Monongahela
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By obits 
October 21, 2021
OBITUARY CORRECTION Donald W. Calloway was born in Charleroi/Monessen Hospital, Charleroi, the first-born child of his parents, Anna Mae Woods Calloway and Samuel Wesley Calloway. He was followed by t...
Nonprofit presents plan for 60 empty lots in Monessen
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By Stacy Wolford 
October 21, 2021
By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Labor of Love Ministries will draft a written plan for about 60 empty lots owned by the Monessen Redevelopment Authority for the board’s solicitor to review as pa...
Helen R. Hreno Veschio –  Monessen
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By obits 
October 21, 2021
Helen R. Hreno Veschio, 81, of Monessen, passed away peacefully with her family at her side, following a brief illness on Tuesday Oct. 19, 2021, in AHN Jefferson Hospital. She was born on Aug. 14, 194...
Pa. appeals court takes up school mask challenge
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By Stacy Wolford 
October 21, 2021
By Paula Reed Ward Trib Total Media The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court heard more than 90 minutes of argument Wednesday on whether the state’s acting secretary of health had the authority in August t...
Obituaries
By obits 
October 21, 2021
Sandra Ann Derrico, 75, of Rostraver Township, went to be with the Lord on Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021. A daughter of the late Michael Fransko and Emma Sisler Fransko, she was born in Monongahela on Jan....
Ringgold parents question COVID-19 student protocols
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By Stacy Wolford 
October 21, 2021
By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com As has been the case for several months in a row, Ringgold School Board heard from a few parents with complaints about COVID-19 mitigation policies.  Parent Alicia DiB...
Elizabeth Albert – Donora
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By obits 
October 20, 2021
Elizabeth Albert, 86, of Donora, passed away on Friday, Oct. 15, 2021, at UPMC Presbyterian Hospital, Pittsburgh. She was born on June 30, 1935, daughter of the late Michael and Catherine Joseph Alber...
Dorothy Elizabeth Flower Japak – North Myrtle Beach
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By obits 
October 20, 2021
Dorothy Elizabeth Flower Japak passed away on Oct. 16, 2021, at the age of 102. She was born in Monongahela, on Aug. 12, 1919, daughter of the late William and Sarah Mellor Flower. She was a member of...
Ronald ‘RJ’ Jones – Monongahela
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By obits 
October 20, 2021
Ronald “RJ” Jones, 71, of Monongahela, died Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021, at his home after a brief illness. Born June 21, 1950, in Monongahela, he was the son of the late Edward “Pal” and Almeda Jones. Aft...
Playground weather
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By Mon Valley Independent 
October 20, 2021
The Fekete family, Hailee, Vinnie and Judah, 2, of Dunlevy, enjoyed the swings Tuesday at Monessen’s City Park.
Susan Martis Randolph – Finleyville
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By obits 
October 20, 2021
Susan Martis Randolph, 82, of Finleyville, died Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021, in her home. Born Sept. 1, 1939, in McKeesport, she was the daughter of Joseph and Helen Vrabel Martis. A homemaker, Susan was a...
South Allegheny: Former board member guilty of ethics violations
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By Mon Valley Independent 
October 20, 2021
By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com A former South Allegheny School Board member violated the state ethics act in at least three ways dating back as far as 2013. To read the rest of the story, pleas...
BVA holds first meeting at Leopard Hall
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By Mon Valley Independent 
October 20, 2021
By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com The Belle Vernon Area School Board held its first agenda meeting Tuesday in the newly renovated Leopard Hall, formerly known as Rostraver Middle School. To read...