By JEREMY TEPPER MVI Sports Brad Sheader is familiar with building from the ground floor.   For 15 years, Sheader has been part of the South Allegheny Youth Soccer Club, helping teach kids how to play...

Edwin Weckoski, 97, of Coal Center, West Pike Run Township, passed away Sunday evening, Aug. 22, 2021, at Washington Hospital. He was born Sept. 4, 1923, in Coal Center, a son of Joseph and Sophia Dud...

By WAYNE STEWART For MVI Sports Ben McCauley, Yough High School basketball star from the Class of 2005, has many memories of his playing days. He had to be pleased that an opposing coach, Seth Greenbe...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com For the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, members of the Mon Yough Area Chamber of Commerce were together Monday for a game of golf. MYAC, a busines...

Diane C. Hoskin, 54, of Pittsburgh, formerly of New Eagle, died Saturday, Aug. 21, 2021, at Baldwin Health Center. Born Oct. 19, 1966, in Charleroi, she is the daughter of Liddy Marshall Hoskin of New...

The Monongahela Main Street Program and SydMor Arena co-sponsored a horse promenade Saturday in downtown Monongahela. The event was inspired by horse parades that were held 25 years ago when rodeos we...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com Washington County District Attorney Gene Vittone, 61, lost his battle with lung cancer Saturday, leaving a void being felt across the county and statewide. Just...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com Teachers return to Elizabeth Forward schools today, but they won’t be joined by the district’s students until Thursday. The teachers will spend the next several...

By Matt Petras For the MVI Canceling the California Riverfest last year due to the pandemic was incredibly disappointing, according to event organizer Michelle Kinsey. In 2021, there was some uncertai...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com The coronavirus pandemic has caused some changes to the way White Oak Vet Center provides counseling services to the region’s heroes who served or are actively serving...

Julia “Julie” Svec Amendola, 102, was called to the side of her Lord on Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021. She was born on March 2, 1919, and raised in Roscoe. She met Angelo “Orangie” Amendola at a dance at th...

Again, our hearts were made to be heavy. On Aug. 12, 2021, the angels from Heaven stopped in Donora to receive Peter Paul Jankowski, 68, the son of the late Pe-ter Jankowski and Mary Ann Walkowski. Am...

Gregory Gibson Kenney died peacefully at home on Aug. 8, 2021, after a period of illness. He was born Oct. 14, 1957, at Charleroi Hospital, the son of George and Ruth Minnie Kenney. Greg graduated fro...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com Nine years in the making, a memorial to Army Spc. Casey Casteel Jackson was unveiled Friday in Belle Vernon. The memorial sits along Route 906 as a tribute not ...

Members of the California Area High School football team look on as the sun sets behind them during practice at Trojans Stadium.

Irene Metro Mahalko, 96, of Monessen, passed away on Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021, in Indiana, Pa. Irene had lived there with her daughter and son-in-law for the past five years and was blessed to have died...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com The Borough of Donora, like the majority of Mon Valley communities, wants to find new ways to target blight and property maintenance and clean up the town. After ...

Bernard J. “Sacks” Sosnak, 89, of Coal Center, West Pike Run Township, passed away Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021, in his home. He was born Feb. 5, 1932, in Granville, Pa., son of the late Joseph and Beatric...

By JOSE NEGRON jnegron@yourmvi.com During his playing career at Cal U, Jawan Turner was more than just a standout defensive lineman and all-PSAC West selection for the Vulcans.   He developed into a c...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com A city in the Mon Valley is calling on its residents to answer a question: “How do you move around McKeesport?” Thanks to an Active Allegheny grant of more than $80,00...