By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Donora’s police department has been operating with one officer per shift on multiple shifts per month for most of this year and the mayor has tried several times ...

By TAYLOR BROWN-HERMAN tbrown@yourmvi.com When planning began for the first annual Five Town Fall Festival earlier this year, organizers had a simple goal: to bring Mon Valley residents together for a...

Diana R. Fedorchak, 75, died May 27, in San Anselmo, Calif., where she had resided for the past 50 years. She was born in Monongahela to the late Michael and Anna Kozon Fedorchak. She is survived by h...

Cynthia Sue Cramer, 60, of Smithton, passed away on Oct. 13, 2021, at UMPC Presbyterian Hospital, surrounded by her loving family. She was born Feb. 2, 1961, to the late Joseph Shaffer and Sara Rupp S...

Edward William Gauden, 79, of Pensacola, Fla., went to be with the Lord on Saturday, Jan. 18, 2020. A son of the late Edward B. and Marion Palfrey Gauden, he was born in North Belle Vernon on March 15...

Dolores J. Vivio, 66, of Collinsburg, died Thursday, Oct. 14, 2021. Born in Mount Pleasant on Nov. 15, 1954, she was the daughter of the late Stanley D. and Dolores M. Bowers Pevc. Dolores loved playi...

Philip “Buddy” Gibino, 63, of New Stanton, passed away on Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2021, at his home. He was born in North Charle- roi on Jan. 8, 1958, a son of the late Philip and Arminia Farrow Gibino. P...

Robert David ‘Bobby’ Vanpool Sr., born July 30, 1967, passed away unexpectedly on Oct. 11, 2021. He was the son of the late Mary Ann Sebititch and Richard Vanpool and brother of the late Karen Vanpool...

Susan J. Galiyas Morgan, age 73, of Buena Vista, passed away on Thursday, Oct. 14, 2021. She was the beloved wife of James E. Morgan; mother of James S. Morgan, John J. (Margaret) Morgan, Mike J. (Meg...

By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com One of the best soccer players to come out of the Mon Valley has revealed where he’ll be playing his college soccer. Charleroi’s Eben McIntyre announced Friday tha...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Steve Schonberger of McKeesport came home Thursday from shopping in Squirrel Hill with his sister and was greeted outside his apartment building with roses, balloons a...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com There was a standing- room-only crowd in Donora’s council chambers Thursday night, filled with residents looking for relief from coal dust. To read the rest of th...

By Deb Erdley Trib Total Media The great wait is over for stakeholders at California, Clarion and Edinboro universities. To read the rest of the story, please see a copy of Friday’s Mon Valley Indepen...

By TAYLOR BROWN-HERMAN tbrown@yourmvi.com Apple dumplings, handmade from scratch by parishioners of St. Andrew the Apostle Parish, have sold out before they have been baked.   To read the rest of the ...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com The Belle Vernon Lions Club will sponsor its 74th annual Halloween parade Oct. 30. To read the rest of the story, please see a copy of Friday’s Mon Valley Independent,...

By JOSE NEGRON jnegron@yourmvi.com Belle Vernon Area’s girls soccer team closed out its regular season with a 2-0 win over visiting Greensburg Salem in Section 2-3A play Thursday night at James Weir S...

By the Mon Valley Independent Eben McIntyre’s eight-goal performance helped lead Charleroi to a 13-1 non-section triumph over California Thursday night at Myron Pottios Stadium.   To read the rest of ...

By the Mon Valley Independent A new member was inducted into the Charleroi Boys Soccer Hall of Fame Thursday at Myron Pottios Stadium. To read the rest of the story, please see a copy of Friday’s Mon ...

  Angelo Suppa Jr., 90, of Penn Hills, formerly of Belle Vernon, passed away on Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021. Husband for 40 years of Dorothy Knapp Suppa; father of Angelo Suppa III, Toni (the late Skip of ...

Nell Valdiserri, 94, of Belle Vernon, went to be with the Lord on Saturday, Oct. 9, 2021. A daughter of the late Andrew and Eva Cherna Malaga, she was born in Pricedale on Jan. 14, 1927. A lifelong re...